Acoustics category: 434 books
by Neil Weir
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2016
A straightforward collection of advice not typically found in other recording books. From the author: Mixing many band-recorded albums, I’ve noticed there are several recurring issues in the tracking stage that have made mixing more difficult than it needs to be. These issues often require...
New Channels of Music Distribution
Understanding the Distribution Process, Platforms and Alternative Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
With an example-driven, hands-on approach, New Channels of Music Distribution offers a practical, comprehensive study of the music industry's evolving distribution system. While paying careful attention to the variables that impact success, C. Michael Brae examines the functionality and components...
Automatic Speech Recognition
A Deep Learning Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advancement in the field of automatic speech recognition with a focus on deep learning models including deep neural networks and many of their variants. This is the first automatic speech recognition book dedicated to the deep learning approach....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
High standards of noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) performance are expected in vehicle design. Refinement is therefore one of the main engineering/design attributes to be addressed when developing new vehicle models and components.
Vehicle noise and vibration refinement provides a review...
by Leon Gunther
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
The Physics of Music and Color deals with two subjects, music and color - sound and light in the physically objective sense - in a single volume. The basic underlying physical principles of the two subjects overlap greatly: both music and color are manifestations of wave phenomena, and commonalities...
Headless Males Make Great Lovers
And Other Unusual Natural Histories
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
The natural world is filled with diverse—not to mention quirky and odd—animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the male hip-pocket frog that carries his own tadpoles;...
Extremely Loud
Sound as a Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
“Everything you ever suspected or feared about music as a weapon, sound as torture . . . Disturbingly illuminating in the possible ramifications**” (Kirkus Reviews).**
In this troubling and wide-ranging account, acclaimed journalist Juliette Volcler looks at the long history of efforts...
Brain-Grounded Theory of Temporal and Spatial Design
In Architecture and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In this book, brain-grounded theory of temporal and spatial design in architecture and the environment is discussed. The author believes that it is a key to solving such global problems as environmental disorders and severe climate change as well as conflicts that are caused by the ill-conceived notion...
Sensors and Instrumentation, Volume 5
Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3. Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Balancing Simulation and Testing, 2015, the third volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Few aspects of daily existence are untouched by technology. Learning and teaching music are no exceptions and arguably have been impacted as much or more than other areas of life. Digital technologies have come to affect music learning and teaching in profound ways, influencing how we create, listen,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
This book reports on the application of advanced models of the human binaural hearing system in modern technology, among others, in the following areas: binaural analysis of aural scenes, binaural de-reverberation, binaural quality assessment of audio channels, loudspeakers and performance spaces,...
by Nikki Myers
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
"Bridge the Gap: A Beginner's Guide to Remote ADR and Source-Connect" is a Master's thesis written for ADR engineers and students interested in local and remote ADR workflow and focuses on the process of using Source-Connect as a method of recording remote ADR and voiceover. This thesis...
Listening in the Field
Recording and the Science of Birdsong
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The transformation of sound recording into a scientific technique in the study of birdsong, as biologists turned wildlife sounds into scientific objects.
Scientific observation and representation tend to be seen as exclusively visual affairs. But scientists have often drawn on sensory experiences...
A NIME Reader
Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
What is a musical instrument? What are the musical instruments of the future? This anthology presents thirty papers selected from the fifteen year long history of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). NIME is a leading music technology conference, and an important...