ELECTROACOUSTIC MODULES
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Field Recording
Field Recording Project: Sound object recording
Filters & Equalization
Demo's using filters and equalizers
Personal Studio Experiment No. 1: cleanup, transpose, filter & EQ
Demo using parallel circuits
Personal Studio Experiment No. 2: setting up a parallel circuit, synchronous and asynchronous
Modulation and Auto-convolution
Personal Studio Experiment No. 3: SoundHack demo for ring modulation
Personal Studio Experiment No. 4: SoundHack demo for auto-convolution
Demo: Automating processing parameters
Time Delays & Phasing
Demo: Phasing, Echo and Feedback
Demo: Recording dynamic processes using feedback
Reverberation
Demo: Reverberation with Auxiliary circuits; Post and Pre modes
Demo: Impulse Reverberation
Dynamic Range & Compression
Demo: Dynamic range control
Demo: Refining levels in a mix
Microsound
Demo: Granulation of sampled sound
Demo: SoundHack Bubbler
Demo: MacPod, time stretching
ACOUSTIC MODULES
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Sound-Medium Interface
1. Personal Listening Experiment: Suspended coathanger
2. Personal Listening Experiment: Ear trumpet effect
3. Personal Listening Experiment: Music at different loudness levels
Experiment No. 1: jnd for pitch
4. Personal Listening Experiment: Loudness adaptation
5. Personal Listening Experiment: Sound monitoring & Soundwalks
Vibration: Frequency and Pitch
Exercise: Frequency and wavelength calculation
6. Personal Listening Experiment: Resonances in a bottle
Vibration: Spectrum and Timbre
Listening Experiment: Timbre space
Experiment No. 2: Hearing a harmonic in a timbre
Experiment No. 3: Octave tuning with sine tones
Magnitude
Listening Experiment: Loudness levels for various frequencies
Listening Experiment: Loudness jnd
Experiment No. 4: Loudness scaling
Listening Experiment: Volume comparison
Sound-Environment Interaction
7. Personal Listening Experiment: Sound attenuation with a door or window
8. Personal Listening Experiment: Soundwalk listening for the effect of barriers
9. Personal Listening Experiment: Listening to the acoustics of a room
10. Personal Listening Experiment: Soundwalk with parallel surfaces
Listening Experiment: Comparing the Impulse Response of different acoustic spaces
Listening Experiment: Environmental phasing with a wall reflecting traffic
Listening Experiment: Environmental phasing with a fountain
11. Personal Listening Experiment: Finding the eigentones of a resonant space
Binaural Hearing & Acoustic Space
12. Personal Listening Experiment: High frequency loudness differences in a space
13. Personal Listening Experiment: Binaural localization of front/back differences
14. Personal Listening Experiment: Cocktail party effect
Personal Haptic Experiment: Precedence effect
15. Personal Listening Experiment: Precedence effect with loudspeakers
Sound-Sound Interaction
16. Personal Listening Experiment: Finding dead spots in an enclosed space
17. Personal Listening Experiment: Soundwalk listening for masking effects
Experiment No. 5: Upward, forward and backward masking
Personal Haptic Experiment: Two point versus one point sensation
Listening Experiment: Dichotic musical pattern recognition
Speech Acoustics
18. Personal Listening Experiment: Paralanguage
Audiology & Hearing Loss
19. Personal Listening Experiment: Earplugs
20. Personal Listening Experiment: Impulse noises
SIDEBARS
Other short topics
Link: Auto-convolution compositional examples
Link: Compositional process in The Blind Man (1979)
Link: Detailed analysis of interpersonal dialogue
Link: Examples of convolution with Impulse Responses
Link: Historical advertising strategies regarding sound fidelity
Link: Historical recording formats and advertising
Link: Isobel maps
Link: Acoustic Niche Hypothesis examples
Link: Excerpts of New York 1929 noise report
Link: Karplus-Strong waveguide resonators
Link: Chaotic non-linear dynamical systems
Link: Field recording devices
Link: Hildegard Westerkamp sound examples from Into the Labyrinth (2000)
Link: Hybrid convolution examples from Chalice Well (2009)
Link: "Bedtime story", How the Decibel Got its Name
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