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12 unusual facts about acoustics


Acoustic Sounds, Inc.

But after recognizing how incredible the church’s natural Acoustics were, Kassem decided to outfit it as a state-of-the-art recording studio.

Acoustical Intelligence

Acoustical Intelligence (ACOUSTINT, sometimes ACINT) is an intelligence gathering discipline that collects and processes acoustic phenomena.

Acoustics/Remixes

Acoustics/Remixes is a record by Rolo Tomassi compiled of two live radio sessions performed acoustically by James Spence and Joseph Nicolson as well as two remixes by Three Trapped Tigers and Cereal (Calum of Dananananaykroyd).

Criminal code section 342

:(b) by means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, intercepts or causes to be intercepted, directly or indirectly, any function of a computer system,

John L. Climenhaga

During this period, Climenhaga oversaw expansion of the department's research efforts in Geophysics, Nuclear Physics, Acoustics, Gas dynamics and Theoretical Physics, as well as Astronomy.

Radio acoustic sounding system

The principle of operation behind RASS is as follows: Bragg scattering occurs when acoustic energy (i.e., sound) is transmitted into the vertical beam of a radar such that the wavelength of the acoustic signal matches the half-wavelength of the radar.

A radio acoustic sounding system (RASS) is a system for measuring the atmospheric lapse rate using backscattering of radio waves from an acoustic wave front to measure the speed of sound at various heights above the ground.

Robotic sensing

Acoustic and linguistic features are generally used to characterize emotions.

SODAR

Commercial sodars operated for the purpose of collecting upper-air wind measurements consist of antennas that transmit and receive acoustic signals.

Suikinkutsu

Constructing a suikinkutsu is more difficult than it looks, because all components have to be finely tuned with each other to ensure a good sound.

Ultra-short baseline

An acoustic pulse is transmitted by the transceiver and detected by the subsea transponder, which replies with its own acoustic pulse.

Variable star

The restoring force to create the contraction phase of a pulsation can be pressure if the pulsation occurs in a non-degenerate layer deep inside a star, and this is called an acoustic or pressure mode of pulsation, abbreviated to p-mode.


Ann Dowling

Professor Dame Ann Patricia Dowling, DBE, FRS, FREng (born 15 July 1952) is a British mechanical engineer who researches combustion, acoustics and vibration, focusing on efficient, low-emission combustion and reduced road vehicle and aircraft noise.

Avery Fisher Hall

The program concentrated on concert hall acoustics, and, like the opening night concert, was shown over the CBS television network.

Aynsley Lister

To complement the Live! album the show recorded by WDR Television for Rockpalast at the Crossroads Festival held in the Harmonie, Bonn on 23 March 2005 was released and contains three acoustics songs and a full band set.

Chronomètre of Loulié

Circa 1694 Étienne Loulié, a musician who had recently collaborated with mathematician Joseph Sauveur on the education of Philippe, Duke of Chartres, was asked by Chartres to work with Sauveur on a scientific study of acoustics sponsored by the Royal Academy of Science.

Dave Parry

matter also boasts a 75,000W BodyKinetic dancefloor from Djenerate, Martin Audio and Void Acoustics sound systems and master control via an Avolites desk.

Douai Abbey

Because of its unique and marvellous acoustics, during March 1990, Douai Abbey was used as a location for British male vocal septet The Hilliard Ensemble´s recording of Italian renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo´s liturgic responsory “Tenebrae”.

Emanuel Vigeland

The amazing acoustics of the mausoleum can be heard in a recording by American folk artist Jay Brannan, who was allowed a private visit during which he was videotaped singing his composition, Death Waltz.

Epidemiology of representations

This is sensory specific (i.e. visual-, acoustic-, tactile-, and olfactory perception etc.) and task or reasoning specific (i.e. formulation of intuitive theories).

Fauxharmonic Orchestra

The Fauxharmonic Orchestra is an orchestra made up of digital orchestral instruments, some including the Vienna Symphonic Library conducted by Paul Henry Smith using a Wii Remote controller instead of a baton and a Wii balance board instead of a podium, both of which are programmed to modify the sounds in real time in response to the acoustics of the hall and the demands of the music.

Fumitada Itakura

From 1973 to 1975 he worked at the Acoustics Research Department of Bell Labs, having been invited to work there on fundamental problems by James Flanagan, who had been impressed by one of Itakura's papers on low bit-rate encoding.

Holland Performing Arts Center

Designed by Omaha architectural firm HDR, Inc. in collaboration with Polshek Partnership Architects, the structure specializes in events requiring an environment with good acoustics, including performances by the Omaha Symphony Orchestra and Omaha Area Youth Orchestra, as well as various events within the series, Omaha Performing Arts Presents season.

Inverse-square law

In acoustics, the sound pressure of a spherical wavefront radiating from a point source decreases by 50% as the distance r is doubled; measured in dB, the decrease is still 6.02 dB, since dB represents an intensity ratio.

IraqComm

DynaSpeak speech recognition is also used in the Phraselator, a weatherproof handheld language translation device developed by VoxTec, a former division of the military contractor Marine Acoustics, located in Annapolis, MD.

Kirill Horoshenkov

He has been involved actively in the professional life of the acoustic community in the UK and overseas, serving as a member of the Engineering Division Committee of the Institute of Acoustics (IOA), member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College, Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Applied Acoustics and the Journal of Acta Acoutsica (United with Acustica).

Leeds Tramway

Queens Hall became a renowned punk venue and hosted other artists such as Elton John, however the venue's poor acoustics and high upkeep costs brought about its closure.

Mary Florentine

Since then, she has also worked as a visiting scientist at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Marseille, France; the Osaka University in Toyonaka, Japan; and, on several occasions, at the acoustics laboratory at the Danish Technical University.

Millioctave

The invention goes back to John Herschel, who proposed a division of the octave into 1000 parts, which was published (with appropriate credit to Herschel) in George Biddell Airy's book on musical acoustics.

Montréal 2025

The Symphony House bears the signature of the acoustician Russell Johnson and meet the highest standards in acoustics.

Piran

Musical Evenings of Piran have taken place for decades in Greyfriars Franciscan monastery's atrium, one of the most beautiful cloister atriums in the Slovenian Littoral, which has a very good acoustics.

Prokopis Doukas

Born in Athens, Greece in 1963, he has studied electrical engineering (M. Sc. in electronics, telecommunications and networks) at the University of Patras, Greece and music technology at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, Ca.

Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

The Sosnoff Theater, an intimate, 900-seat theater with an orchestra, parterre, and two balcony sections, features an orchestra pit for opera and acoustics designed by Yasuhisa Toyota, including an acoustic shell that turns the theater into a concert hall for performances of chamber and symphonic music.

Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet

He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, London but worked mainly tutoring at Oxford, notably for the Natural Science School, and later was Professor of Acoustics at the Royal College of Music.

Royal Festival Hall

Leo Beranek, an American acoustics engineer who had undertaken measurements of all of the world's leading concert halls, had identified that the interior treatment of the auditorium was absorbing too much sound.

Rudy Van Gelder

The new studios' structure was inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and bore some resemblance to a chapel, with high ceilings and fine acoustics.

Scheibler

Johann Scheibler (1777–1837), silk manufacturer of Crefeld, and contributor to the science of acoustics

Sidetone

Digital telephones lack the mechanical acoustics and circuitry that used physical wiring to produce sidetone in older landline phones, so digital phones include electronic circuitry, software and firmware to reproduce sidetone.

St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood

The church interior is noted for the quality of its acoustics and it is frequently used by classical music artists for CD recordings, including His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Florilegium and I Fagiolini.

St Stephen's Chapel

A lower false ceiling was installed in the chamber to help to improve its acoustics, the quality of which was important in an age without artificial amplification.

St. Nicolas Church, Pevensey

In recent years internationally known professional, London based musicians from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Royal Academy of Music and BBC Concert Orchestra, to mention a few, have played concerts in the Church because they appreciate the exceptional clarity of the acoustics.

State Institute for Music Research

In 1962 the Institute came under the administration of the newly created Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and the Department for Musical Acoustics was established in 1965 through a grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

Teatro Massimo

It is the biggest in Italy, and one of the largest of Europe (the third after the Opéra National de Paris and the K. K. Hof-Opernhaus in Vienna), renowned for its perfect acoustics.

Utkan Demirci

His research interests involve biological applications of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and acoustics, especially: microfluidics for low cost CD4 counts for HIV in resource-limited-settings for global health problems; acoustic picoliter droplets for cell-by-cell 3D tissue generation, and semiconductor applications; capacitive micromachined ultrasonic arrays (CMUTS) for medical imaging applications.