Synthesizer

Communication (speech and language) is so important, it affects who we are, how we learn, and how we interact with others around us. Language and speech help children learn new things whether it be at school or outside of school, make friendships, describe their feelings, find employment as adults, get directions, etc. Having the ability to speak is so vital, it helps us do almost everything in life. When a child is unable to speak, they can exhibit behavioral problems. Some children exhibit…

West African musical influences can be found throughout the rest of Africa and across the globe. These influences can be found throughout various genres of music, including jazz, blues, and electronic music. A modern example I discovered that demonstrates West African musical styles was M83’s Midnight City, an electronic song. Firstly, and prominently featured throughout the song is the synth pattern, or ostinato that is repeated through a large majority of the song. It is a simple four note…

pipes like Seamus Ennis. This song also has a dance rhythm of reel. The last song I listened to was Gravelwalk. Eileen Ivers and her band used a lot of electrophones in this song such as the electric fiddle, electric bass, electric violin, and synthesizer. She also used the uilleann pipes,…

The Shriner’s hospital has incorporated a team based approach to health care called RESTORE. Restore stands for Renew, Energize, and Stimulate to Optimize the Rehabilitation Experience. The training experience involves many occupations in the health care doing a week by week operations and assessment of the patient. The diagnosis of the patient determines what parts of the interdisciplinary team need to be involved. The team evaluates and trains the patients on a weekly basis. The initial…

Paul Breedlove, an engineer, with Texas Instruments that ended up being introduced to the public at the 1978 Summer Consumer Electronic Show as The Speak and Spell. It was a handheld electronic device and educational toy that consisted of a speech synthesizer, a fluorescent display, a keyboard, and a receptor slot for a collection of game cartridges. Additionally, its main function was a tool for helping young children to learn to spell and pronounce over 200 commonly misspelled words. As a…

Let’s get down to business, Ray Kurzweil predicts that in 2045 a singularity will happen. Not just any singularity, a technological one. This means that when the time comes, technology and human capacity will accelerate and merge to become a new and different life-form. This may include machines becoming sentient. Believing in the singularity is a good thing. The singularity will bring up a new age of superhuman intelligence. “According to Ray Kurzweil the advancements in the GNR; genomics,…

to hear and. As the soundtrack slowly crescendos, the background noise becomes quieter, until the sounds of the score have completely drowned out the sounds from the scene. The score mainly consist of digitally-rendered ambient sounds along with synthesizers and percussion instruments. In scenes where the monster is pursuing one of the characters, it is not uncommon to hear a deep, steady beat pulsing in the background. This steady repetition and slow buildup are common motifs in the soundtrack…

Passacaglia piece exhibits characteristics from Edgard Varese’s piece even though the composers had different performance mediums. Throughout Shaw’s piece, you can hear a few characteristics of e experimentation. Shaw’s piece does not use a lot of synthesizers and is not a dramatic as Varese’s Poeme Electronique. Shaw uses some electronic sounds and characteristics of experiments within her piece, but her main sound was the use of whispers, shouts, and cries to make her pieces unique. A few…

The book The Art of Racing in the Rain is written based on a true story of the author Garth Stein, but instead of telling a story like any other literature, this book is written from author’s pet dog, Enzo’s perspective. This book is mainly a biography of the author during the times his dog, Enzo, is present, and what makes this biography so great is that the concept of the dog telling the story is constantly reminded by the author Stein, and Stein added on the imaginary but realistic thoughts…

Hans Zimmer is known for recording music for over 150 films, including The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Last Samurai, and Interstellar. He started out using keyboards and synthesizers and was briefly in a The Buggles’ music video, “Video Killed the Radio Star”, which was the beginning of his career. He went on to other bands, playing the keyboard, bands such as The Damned, where he helped produce an album called the Black Album where his efforts were described as over-produced…