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In this history of aural culture in early-twentieth-century America, Emily Thompson charts dramatic transformations in what people heard and how they listened. What they heard was a new kind of sound that was the product of modern technology. They listened as newly critical consumers of aural commodities. By examining the technologies that produced this sound, as well as the culture that enthusiastically consumed it, Thompson recovers a lost dimension of the Machine Age and deepens our understanding of the experience of change that characterized the era. Reverberation equations, sound meters, microphones, and acoustical tiles were deployed in places as varied as Boston's Symphony Hall, New York's office skyscrapers, and the soundstages of Hollywood. The control provided by these technologies, however, was applied in ways that denied the particularity of place, and the diverse spaces of modern America began to sound alike as a universal new sound predominated. Although this sound--clear, direct, efficient, and nonreverberant--had little to say about the physical spaces in which it was produced, it speaks volumes about the culture that created it. By listening to it, Thompson constructs a compelling new account of the experience of modernity in America.
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534.7 --- 612.7 --- Désherbage --- 534.78 --- Physiological acoustics. Medical acoustics --- Motor functions. Organs of locomotion. Voice. Integument --- Deselectie --- 612.7 Motor functions. Organs of locomotion. Voice. Integument --- 534.7 Physiological acoustics. Medical acoustics --- Voice --- Voix --- Voice.
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Noise generators. --- Meteorology. --- Sound detecting and ranging. --- Acoustics. --- Noise.
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Art --- Film --- mobiles --- installations [visual works] --- art [discipline] --- sound [acoustics] --- video art --- Klingberg, Gunilla --- Sweden
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Music --- Music --- Acoustics and physics --- History --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- History --- Guilford, Francis North,
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Samenvatting:With an emphasis on computer techniques of analysis, this book presentsthe theory, computational aspects, and applications of vibrations in assimple a manner as possible. This text gives expanded explanations of thefundamentals of vibration including history of vibration, degree offreedom systems, vibration control, vibration measurement, and more. Forengineers and other professionals who want a clear introduction tovibration engineering
mechanische trillingen --- Protection of buildings against external influences --- Vibrations --- Vibration. --- Mechanische trillingen --- 534 --- trillingen --- harmonische trilling --- lineaire trilling --- matlab --- mechanische trilling --- niet-lineaire trilling --- trilling --- Vibrations. Acoustics --- (zie ook: vering) --- Mechanische trillingen. --- 534 Vibrations. Acoustics
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Iconography --- Art --- Photography --- installations [visual works] --- art [discipline] --- sound [acoustics] --- travel --- motion pictures [visual works] --- Vartiainen, Timo --- Finland
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The first question any lover of classical music usually asks an acoustician is, "Which are the best halls in the world?" The response -the three halls rated highest by world-praised conductors and music critics of the largest newspapers were built in 1870, 1888, and 1900- always prompts the next query: "Why are those so good while many halls built after 1950 seem to be mediocre or failures?" You will find answers to these questions in this book, the result of a half-century's research into the very complex field of acoustics of halls for music. Following the first chapters, which establish a base for understanding the effects of acoustics on composers, performers, and listeners, and guiding the reader to a common vocabulary, the bullz of this book, Chapter 3, contains the write-ups, photographs, drawings, and architectural details on 100 existing halls in 31 countries. Thirty of the halls are completely new. Although the remainder appeared in earlier books by the author, the materials have been updated wherever necessary. The later chapters present the relation of a hall's acoustics to its age, shape, type of seats, and the materials used for the walls and ceiling. The sequence of events that led to Boston Symphony Hall's excellent acoustics, which opened in 1900, is covered in detail-although it went through a troubled first few years because the leading local music critic considered the predecessor hall as better. Detailed discussions also appear for balcony, box, stage, and pit designs. All the known electroacoustical measurements on 100 existing halls are examined and compared with the rank orders of 58 concert halls and 21 opera houses that were obtained from interviews and questionnaires. Finally, the optimal electro-acoustical results are presented for concert halls and opera houses used for today's repertoires. Three appendices supplement the chapters: the first gives definitions of all of the major acoustical and architectural terms and symbols used in the book; the second provides the electro-acoustical data available on the 100 halls; and the third presents in tabular form much of the dimensional and electro-acoustical data for the 100 halls. .
Music --- opera houses --- concert halls --- Architecture --- sound [acoustics] --- acoustical properties --- Public buildings --- soundrecording --- Architectural acoustics. --- Music-halls. --- Theaters. --- akoestiek --- Protection of buildings against external influences --- Acoustics. --- Buildings—Design and construction. --- Building. --- Construction. --- Engineering, Architectural. --- Building Construction and Design. --- Architectural engineering --- Buildings --- Construction --- Construction science --- Engineering, Architectural --- Structural design --- Structural engineering --- Construction industry --- Design and construction
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Magnetic recording is expected to become core technology in a multi-billion dollar industry in the in the very near future. Some of the most critical discoveries regarding perpendicular write and playback heads and perpendicular media were made only during the last several years as a result of extensive and intensive research in both academia and industry in their fierce race to extend the superparamagnetic limit in the magnetic recording media. These discoveries appear to be critical for implementing perpendicular magnetic recording into an actual disk drive. This book addresses all the open questions and issues which need to be resolved before perpendicular recording can finally be implemented successfully, and is the first monograph in many years to address this subject. This book is intended for graduate students, young engineers and even senior and more experienced researchers in this field who need to acquire adequate knowledge of the physics of perpendicular magnetic recording in order to further develop the field of perpendicular recording.
Magnetic recorders and recording. --- Magnetic devices. --- Tape recorders --- Electrical engineering --- Electro-acoustics --- Magnetic devices --- Sound --- Equipment and supplies --- Recording and reproducing --- Electrical engineering. --- Electrical Engineering. --- Electric engineering --- Engineering
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Art --- Film --- installations [visual works] --- art [discipline] --- photography [process] --- sound [acoustics] --- video art --- motion pictures [visual works] --- Huyghe, Pierre --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- France
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