or K’s‚ or the plinking of raindrops. The word “talk” can sound like “aw.” The number of teenagers with hearing loss — from slight to severe — has jumped 33 percent since 1994. Related • Letters: The Medium (January 23‚ 2011) [pic] Illustrations by Olimpia Zagnoli Given the current ubiquity of personal media players — the iPod appeared almost a decade ago — many researchers attribute this widespread hearing loss to exposure to sound played loudly and regularly through headphones. (Earbuds
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in the different voices‚ the sound of the printer or just listening to people who are surrounding me‚ and it is not only until everyone leaves that I can distinguish the sound of the clock hanging on my wall. It is interesting how a constant sound can be ignored throughout the day and detected once every other noise around is gone. But what is noise and what are its characteristics? Noise can be defined as any sound. Although its definition is not that simple‚ sound troubles throw air as a wave and
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perception. Ergo‚ the answer this the titled question is that music is whatever one perceives it to be. This may be a difficult concept to grasp at first glance‚ or possibly grossly simple. This is not to say that all sounds are music. There has to be a human hand organizing that sound in order for it to be eligible for consideration in the first place. Once that organization has happened‚
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travel well in the water‚ most of marine animals rely on sound‚ which can travel four times faster in water than in the air. Especially‚ whales communicate by using sound very skillfully as if they sang. According to the video‚ unlike land mammals‚ who generate sounds by exhaling air‚ whales produce sounds by using an organ called “Laryngeal sacs”‚ by which vibration generated by another organ called “U-fold” is augmented to be loud enough sound which can arrive to thousands of kilometers away. The
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Anatomy and Functions of the Middle Ear The middle ear contains many important parts that necessary for hearing sounds. The middle ear consists of the structures enclosed in a space right behind the eardrum. They are the tympanic membrane or eardrum. The tympanic membrane is a thin membrane shaped like a drum that separates the outer ear from the middle ear. Next is a chain of three ossicles‚ or very small bones. The chain begins with the malleus‚ which is connected to the center of the tympanic
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This device is used to treat people with severe and profound hearing loss. The implanted component is placed under the skin‚ behind the patient’s ear‚ and connected to the auditory nerve of the brain. The Cochlear Implants are designed to receive sounds and convert them into electrical signals that bypass the damaged nerves‚ allowing the brain to interpret the electrical signals. How has the use of Cochlear Implant technology grown? Cochlear Implants have been approved since the mid-1980’s but
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piece to a modernist film‚ composed by Edgard Varèse‚ also known as “the father of electronic music”‚ during 1950 to 1954. Varese began composing this piece upon the gift of an Ampex tape recorder and it soon became the first work to use recorded sounds. It is a landmark creation that had a great influence on the post World War II composers. However‚ its premiere‚ on 2 December 1954 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris‚ was not well received by the public. This performance was part of an Office
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You imagination distinctive visuals through the sense of sound‚ but how does one get these specific concepts? By timbre (tone color). Through the concepts of voice classification‚ instrument families and members‚ and ensemble type you can get a multitude of tone colors. With each tone color comes up a different idea. Timbre: otherwise known as “tone color”‚ is the quality of music that identifies a specific instruments sound. Different instruments differentiate by variety/contrast of “color. These
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Another song that I was also drawn to was En Foret. The reason why I liked this particular piece was due to the instruments that were involved. Personally I have never heard a song with the piano and French horn by themselves. I have heard what a piano sounds like‚
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In Echolocation: Volume Control by Amanda Tromans‚ she explains how some animals and machines use sound to locate things instead of using vision like others. For example‚ bats‚ dolphins‚ and submarines all do this but with a few differences. This paper is more like a review so it does not show specific steps. She explains in the beginning why those exactly use echolocation; this is basically the use of echoes and soundwaves. Those echoes and soundwaves are bounced off many objects so they can get
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