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| Pierre Schaeffer, sound source trains, |
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| Pierre Schaeffer, sound source whistling tops, xylophone, bells, kalimba |
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| Pierre Schaffer, sound source harmonica, spinning pan lids, accordion, chanting monks, human speech french |
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| Otto Leuning, sound source flute, low-speed playback, tape feedback delay |
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| Vladamir Ussachevsky, Sound source piano, some human speec, use of editing to control envelope of sound |
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| Vladamir Ussachevsky, sound sources jet plane, organ, piano, 4 sine wave oscilators, tape feedback delay |
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| Hugh LeCaine, sound source one water droplet recorded and duplicated 25 times, speed control, loop |
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| Iannis Xenakis, sound source burning charcoal, high speed playback |
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| Edgard Varese, sound source bells percussion, voices sirens, |
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| Luciano Berio, sound source human speech, composers wife cathy berberian |
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| John Cage, sound source vast array of sound sources, I-ching practiced, |
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| Iannis Xenakis, sound sources chello bow on gongs, metal rods and cardboard, ionosphere, speed change, over-lapping, cross fading |
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| Toru Takemitsu, sound source lots of different water sounds, tape loops, reversed playback, lots of pauses |
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| Tod Dockstader, sound source human speech/laughing, highspeed playback, tape loops |
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| Steve Reich, 2 identical tape loops drifting of phase, sound source human speech |
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| Alvin Lucier, sound source human speech, acoustic feedback, no tape manipulation is used |
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| Mark Phillips, sound source an upright piano, no external reverb, much use of tape speed manipulation |
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| John Lennon, sound source human speech, piano, existing recordings of music |
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| Sound's 8 wave form properties |
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| frequency, amplitude, velocity, wavelength, waveform, phase, harmonic content, envelope |
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| unit of measure is hertz, =pitch |
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| unit of measure is decibels =volume/dynamics |
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sound travels 1130 ft per sec at 70' F at sea level
as temp goes up speed goes up
as density goes up speed goes up |
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Longer waves bend around obstacles,
Shorter waves simply reflect off of surfaces |
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| 4 Main Types of simple waveforms |
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=timbre
sine, sawtooth, triangle, rectangle |
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| Caused when two tones are almost of equal pitch |
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| caused when 2 tones differ by more than 50 hz |
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| when one louder sound prevents a softer sound from being heard |
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