Sound

Today’s music has evolved tremendously since when music was first discovered in the middle ages. Now we have musicians like Beyonce, Alicia Keys, and Adele who changed the whole sound of music: different messages, beats, and style. Artists today are just as creative as the composers before them; Acapella artists sing with no music, other artists use techno or Dubstep, a type of electronic dance music. However, these artists would not have it so easy like they do today if the people that came…

Vocalization is an essential type of communication for passerine species. Bird is a primary example of using auditory signals between intraspecies and interspecies. This research paper will examine the European warblers, mockingbirds and sparrows to show that songs are specifically developed by male birds in order to attract females and they are also the way for females to evaluate potential mates to ensure reproduction success. Vocalization is also a mechanism used by this taxon to be able…

Dynamic assessment of phonological awareness for children with speech sound disorders. Child Language Teaching & Therapy, 28(3), 297-308. doi:10.1177/0265659012448087 Introduction: Gillam and Ford created a dynamic assessment to observe the associations concerning performance on a nonverbal phoneme deletion, word-level reading, and speech sound production that require verbal responses for school-age children with speech sound disorders. The participants involved in the study were ten school-age…

boy gently runs his hand along the piano’s ivory; settling his finger on the key begging to be played. The piano lets out a familiar sound as the boy softly seats himself on the dusty stool positioned before it. ‘How did it go again…’ he mutters, pressing the keys to the left and right in a vain attempt to find his place. The boy’s face twists. ‘That doesn’t sound right.’ Shifting his eyes upwards, he notices a book atop the piano’s dulled body. Grasping for it, he brushes off its dusty cover in…

plays a main role in their culture. The Seashell Radio’s use is most apparent in Mildred: The thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 12). The Seashell radio removes Mildred from reality and allows her to…

relevant to the topic because it examines how speech production is affected by hormones. The researchers used a placebo in their study, which the other testosterone treatment results were compared to. This information is useful because it provides a sound methodology and systematic approach to collecting sufficient data. The study was conducted by Huang, who is an MD at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and other scientific researchers who have studied voice and hormones for several…

ancestors needed to do was beat on it in order to get the sound output. Drums exist in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and can also be customized according to specific needs of the drummer. Different tools known as beaters are used to strike them, these tools can be wooden sticks, wire brushes, wooden sticks with cloth or cotton head or in some cases even bare hands. Adding to that some drums also offer tenability features and product sound from the vibration of the stretched membrane also…

individuals who were specifically taught varying levels of self-hypnosis. The first individual was taught to manipulate his tinnitus into pleasant music. The second individual was given a combination of hypnotherapy and relaxation to also change sounds whenever they were experiencing a tinnitus episode. Both patients reported a positive change and had a high level of confidence in knowing that they could manipulate the tinnitus whenever necessary. Researchers concluded that the individual…

Columbia University, this was undeniably the case. While the film was produced at an undeniably high caliper, with every detail ranging from lighting to shot development being nearly without flaw, the sound design above all else drove the mood of the production forward. Of all the elements of the sound design of a production, likely the first to appear and additionally the first which is noticed by the audience is the music. The plot of the film “Nocturne in Black” centers on a piano…

One of which is the interrogation scene, where the FBI use a black man to threaten the mayor of Mississippi into giving evidence. It’s a scene where Parker uses lighting and sound techniques to build tension, making the watcher unsure of what happens next. The lighting techniques create a spooky atmosphere, whereas the sound techniques uses quietness, a different way to build up tension. This scene of 'Mississippi Burning' leaves a twist in the movie as you are left feeling frightened but also…