Sound

show whether the hearing loss caused the reduction in cognitive performance or if both the hearing loss and the cognitive decline are parts of a common, general age-related degeneration. Loss of hearing represents more than just difficulty hearing sounds. It can lead to social isolation and depression. A new study suggests that hearing loss may also be linked to loss of memory and thinking skills. A study found that hearing loss could also be a risk factor for dementia. Scientists who conducted…

Obstacles and distractions for even the most experienced helper can be a barrier in counselling sessions. It is important that a helper be aware of forms of distorted listening, know the effects on the client distorted listening can have and lastly, strategies to use to combat distorted listening. Filtered listening is one form of distorted listening. When the helper stops hearing the person and starts personal, familial, sociological and cultural filters they introduce forms of bias into their…

Hearing the muffled sound of guns firing and seeing everything in a shade of yellow has been a normal Saturday morning for me since I was about ten. The day starts off with a drive to the Los Altos Rod & Gun Club or the Sunnyvale Rod & Gun Club with my dad. Knowing that I am about to shoot a variety of guns consisting of: shotguns, pistols, and rifles; causes my heart rate to go up. I am usually the only girl at the shooting range, and I am not the only one to notice. Whenever I step up to take…

As a few of my friends and I were walking down the road by the Lidtke Mill, we suddenly saw a shadowy image in the window. We then went in the Mill. Walking in, we heard strange sounds, screams. All we wanted to know is if it was real or if someone was playing a cruel joke on us. When we realized that there was a fire back in 1894, we did not know if anybody was killed in the fire or not. As we walked, the screams got louder and louder. We were walking around and saw writing in bold. We tried…

To this day, philosophers chew on an age-old question: “What is the meaning of life?” In The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner portrays the fruitless result of this basic human pursuit. Based in the early 20th century American South, the novel follows the members of the Compson family and delves into each of the Compson’s deeply-rooted psychological problems. Faulkner uses each of the book’s narrators to spearhead the issue of meaninglessness of daily troubles. Each of the four unique…

inner ear.The outer part of the ear collects sound. Sound travels through the auricle and the auditory canal, a short tube that ends at the eardrum. Sound entering the outer ear travels through the middle ear and causes the eardrum and ossicle in the middle ear to vibrate. As it travels, it amplifies and changes from air to liquid. When the stapes moves, it pushes the oval window, which then moves the cochlea. The cochlea takes the fluid vibration of sounds from the surrounding semi-circular…

For a piece that utilizes so many non-pitched sounds, Halim El-Dabh’s Leiyla and the Poet (1959) is a surprisingly melodic and structured piece. Two introductory motifs, one melodic, one rhythmic, are introduced at the beginning. The melodic element is shown in a whistle that follows a roughly duple pattern which is broken and reformed throughout the following minutes. Both the introduction and ending, it sets up the atmosphere and cues the listener’s attention to the different sections of the…

to close completely during production of the oral sounds. There are three types of velopharyngeal dysfunction, which are the velopharyngeal insufficiency (structure), velopharyngeal incompetence (movement), and velopharyngeal mislearning (articulation). Normal resonance is control by the size and the shape of the pharyngeal, oral, and nasal cavities, which provides the quality and uniqueness of the voice from the vocal tract with airflow and sound. Airflow is converted into air pressure by…

The piece I selected was “Tout est Perplexe,” from the soundtrack of the Japanese animated film, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo. I selected this piece because it shows a dynamic internal contrast between a mild, lingering sadness and overwhelming depression. The piece starts of softly, with a single instrument playing most of the melody. Moreover, the melody itself is in the minor key, giving the music a sad quality, and it moves upwards in scale in a conjunct manner, so the music does not…

brushes being out down on the table, hairspray being sprayed on their hair. You then hear conga drums softly playing while she starts singing. It sounds like she's using a Jamaican accent, which when she talks you can’t hear that. Her tone through the song starts off slow like she is scared to show how she feel. Then gradually starts singing higher and it sounds like she has power over people and trying to get to her point by raising her voice. This song reminded me of a point in my life where I…