Background Noise, Second Edition

Author: Brandon LaBelle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1628923547
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 377

Book Description
Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance. While chronological in its structure, Brandon LaBelle's book is informed by spatial thinking - weaving architecture, environments, and the specifics of location into the work of sound, with the aim of formulating an expansive history and understanding of sound art. At its center the book presupposes an intrinsic relation between sound and its location, galvanizing acoustics, sound phenomena, and the environmental with the tensions inherent in what LaBelle identifies as sound's relational dynamic. For the author, this is embedded within sound's tendency to become public expressed in its ability to travel distances, foster cultural expression, and define spaces while being radically flexible. This second expanded edition includes a new chapter on the non-human and subnatural tendencies in sound art, revisions to the text as well as a new preface by the author. Intersecting material analysis with theoretical frameworks spanning art and architectural theory, performance studies and media theory, Background Noise makes the case that sound and sound art are central to understandings of contemporary culture.

Background Noise, Second Edition

Author: Brandon LaBelle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1628923520
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 377

Book Description
"Follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance"--

Background Noise

Author: Brandon LaBelle
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826418449
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
The rise of a prominent auditory culture, reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st Century. And yet sound art still lacks related literature to compliment, and expand, the realm of practice. Background Noise sets out an historical overview, while at the same time shaping that history according to what sound art reveals - the dynamics of art to operate spatially, through media of reproduction and broadcast, and in relation to the intensities of communication and its contextual framework

The Rest Is Noise

Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429932880
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 706

Book Description
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Background Noise

Author: Susan Larsen Krause
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781546495857
Category : Anxiety
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Something isn't right with Jeremy... I hear these words often. I also hear "you are just being lazy." Or, "you need to try harder." And "you don't care." I do care. I'd like to tell you why I am like this, but I can't. My brain won't let me. It's busy doing other things. I'm a 12-year-old boy on the outside. But inside, I am different. Failure follows me everywhere. You might be like me. Maybe you failed 6th grade, like I did. Maybe you have never had a real friend. You may know everything about the stars, but you can't write one paragraph. Maybe, like me, you made a huge, awful mistake that came with huge, awful consequences that changed my life forever. Another new school. The same old problems. No one teaches the way I learn. They only know "something isn't right with Jeremy." But, this school isn't like the rest. On the outside, it looks normal. But inside? It's all kinds of different. BACKGROUND NOISE is the story of children who have extraordinary capabilities, yet are trapped inside their minds. They have begun circling down a funnel of failure because they are misidentified and misunderstood in a world that doesn't think the way they think and doesn't teach the way they learn. It's about finding a way to manage their twice-exceptionality and access their gifts to change their lives and those of others. It's story of learning, discovery and friendship as much as it is about a disenfranchised population of children struggling to find their place in the world.

Signal Processing for Intelligent Sensor Systems with MATLAB, Second Edition

Author: David C. Swanson
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420043056
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 686

Book Description
Building on the unique features that made the first edition a bestseller, this second edition includes additional solved problems and web access to the large collection of MATLABTM scripts that are highlighted throughout the text. The book offers expanded coverage of audio engineering, transducers, and sensor networking technology. It also includes new chapters on digital audio processing, as well as acoustics and vibrations transducers. The text addresses the use of meta-data architectures using XML and agent-based automated data mining and control. The numerous algorithms presented can be applied locally or network-based to solve complex detection problems.

Biomedical Engineering Principles Of The Bionic Man (Second Edition)

Author: George K Hung
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811259208
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 574

Book Description
This comprehensive compendium provides an up-to-date scientific source of biomedical engineering principles of 'replacement parts and assist devices' for the bionic man. It covers biomechanics, biochemistry, rehabilitation, tissue engineering, and sports science, as well as applications in cardiovascular, visual, auditory, and neurological systems.The useful reference text benefits students, scientists, and laymen keen in understanding the fundamental underlying principles of biomedical devices and procedures, along with recent advances in transplant methodology, gene therapy, stem cell research, and sports science.This unique volume provides numerous test questions in selected chapters with answers in the Appendix. Numerous color figures provide additional emphasis and vivacity to the written content.

Background Noise

Author: Peter DeMarco
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938545139
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Disaffected suburbanite Henry Walker is on a one-man mission to clean up his town. But is he a popular hero or an enemy of the people? BACKGROUND NOISE charts a young man's descent from dreams of stardom to fantasies of revenge. As Henry immerses himself in his past, memories become guilt, guilt becomes obsession, until violence is the only logical response. In haunting, razor-sharp prose, Peter DeMarco startles the mind while touching the heart.

Architectural Acoustics

Author: Marshall Long
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0123982650
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 985

Book Description
Architectural Acoustics, Second Edition presents a thorough technical overview of the discipline, from basic concepts to specific design advice. Beginning with a brief history, it reviews the fundamentals of acoustics, human perception and reaction to sound, acoustic noise measurements, noise metrics, and environmental noise characterization. In-depth treatment is given to the theoretical principles and practical applications of wave acoustics, sound transmission, vibration and vibration isolation, and noise transmission in floors and mechanical systems. Chapters on specific design problems demonstrate how to apply the theory, including treatment of multifamily dwellings, office buildings, rooms for speech, rooms for music, multipurpose rooms, auditoriums, sanctuaries, studios, listening rooms, and the design of sound reinforcement systems. Detailed figures illustrate the practical applications of acoustic principles, showing how to implement design ideas in actual structures. This compendium of theoretical and practical design information brings the relevant concepts, equations, techniques, and specific design problems together in one place, including both fundamentals and more advanced material. Practicing engineers will find it an invaluable reference for their daily work, while advanced students will appreciate its rigorous treatment of the basic building blocks of acoustical theory. - Considered the most complete resource in the field – includes basic fundamental relations, derived from first principles, and examples needed to solve real engineering problems. - Provides a well-organized text for students first approaching the subject as well as a reliable reference for experienced practitioners looking to refresh their technical knowledge base. - New content for developing professionals includes case studies and coverage of specific focus areas such as audio visual design, theaters, and concert halls.

Engineering Acoustics

Author: Michael Möser
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662053918
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
Suitable for both individual and group learning, Engineering Acoustics focuses on basic concepts and methods to make our environments quieter, both in buildings and in the open air. The author’s tutorial style derives from the conviction that understanding is enhanced when the necessity behind the particular teaching approach is made clear. He also combines mathematical derivations and formulas with extensive explanations and examples to deepen comprehension. Fundamental chapters on the physics and perception of sound precede those on noise reduction (elastic isolation) methods. The last chapter deals with microphones and loudspeakers. Moeser includes major discoveries by Lothar Cremer, including the optimum impedance for mufflers and the coincidence effect behind structural acoustic transmission. The appendix gives a short introduction on the use of complex amplitudes in acoustics.