...Physics of sound Sound is a mechanical wave, sequence of waves is resulting from an air pressure disturbance produced by vibration, and sound propagates through the medium such as air or water. During the propagation, sound can be reflected or attenuated by the medium. Humans can hear the sound is because the vibration pass the wave in to our ear, this is called Traveling Longitudinal Waves. The propagation of the sound can be affected by the density and pressure. The temperature determines the speed of sound with in the medium, also the medium itself would affect the propagation such as wind (moving medium) if the medium is moving therefore the wave would propagated further; with the medium don’t have viscosity, sound would be easier to propagate, but if the medium have an negative viscosity such as water the it would affects the motion of the sound wave. On the top is the diagram of the travellingwave the bar above the diagram represent the concentrations of the pressures on the wave, when the curve are compression (the part above the horizontal line) it represent a high pressure; when the curve are rarefaction (the part below the horizontal line) it represent a low pressure and they change from one to another, this pattern repeats indefinitely. Speed of sound = wavelength*Frequency Wavelength (it can be written as λ) is the distance between two consecutive corresponding points of a waveform. Normally the wavelength is about a meter long. The pitch/frequency of the...
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...Career Profile: Sound Technician Canadian Music Industry I ENT 1301 Tony Sutherland Monday, October 26, 2012. Sound Technician Duties & responsibilities: * With effectively with producers and performers to achieve the desired sound. * Successfully mix and edit voices, sound effects and music for songs, albums and live performances. * Use a sound board, and successfully record sounds with recording equipment. * Separate and combine sound clips. * Experience: * Skills & Personality Traits: * Great communication skills. * Hand-eye coordination. * Active listening. * Detail orientated. * Open mind. * Computer savvy. * Able to work under pressure and maintaining a great work ethic. Entry Level Salaries: Becoming a sound technician, the entry level salaries vary. It ranges from $24,000 to $40,000 a year. Companies with positions: Stush Records | Cherry Beach Sound | Metal Works Production Group | ZoomerMedia Limited | True North Records | Mint Records | Tips: Bibliography Websites: "Sound Technician Duties and Responsibilities." Sound Technician Job Description: Responsibilities, Skills and Qualifications. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2012. <http://www.thejobexplorer.com/Job_Description/Sound_Technician.html>. ""Sound Engineering Technician" Job Description - Part 1." Sound Engineering Technician Job Description, Duties and Jobs. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2012. <http://job-descriptions...
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...In the film, The Limey, there are different sound motifs that are used to help tell the narrative of the story and give the audience cues to how the action or character is related to the sound. Music or sounds help the audience associate and connect certain scenes with their implicit meaning. Wilson’s love for his daughter joined with a regret over lost time that might have, or should have been spent with her, leaves him bound to investigate and avenge her untimely death. “Tell me about Jenny”, is Wilson’s quest to find out what happened to Jenny and his quest causes the narration and action in this film. Wilson’s memories (flashbacks) of Jenny are what keeps him driven in his search for answers. The reoccurring sound motifs in this film are wind chimes, the sounds of the ocean (waves), Wilson’s humming and a unique melody of piano music. These reoccurring sound motifs aid the audience’s understanding of the film’s non chronological temporal order of the story. The film uses different sounds during flashbacks to help add or reveal new information to the viewer about Wilson’s past and the film’s scenes that occur out of the story’s chronological order. The flashbacks are used to create suspense and intrigue in the narration by gradually revealing the entire events of the story. The piano music motif is associated with Wilson’s quest for the truth about Jenny’s death. The piano music is used for different purposes throughout the film. One use of the piano music is...
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...Zihe Zhao EN 101-Composition 1 Joel Gabel July 4th, 2011 Sound of Love Life whispers in our soul and speaks to our heart. Sometimes, we don't have time to listen. Do we sometimes ignore lovely things because our lives are too fast and busy leaving them to wonder whether we really love them? I thought I was a patient man, but I was not until I met a nine year old boy. He let me know that people should pay attention to the small things, even a smile or a sound. I was almost tortured to the point of madness by my neighbors when I arrived in Omaha. I lived in a cheap place so I had to put up with the noise. One of my neighbors is a guy from Nepal, an international college student who only goes to school on Tuesdays and works six days a week for tuition and bills. Ironically he was a delivery man whose car engine sounded like an asthma patient with a megaphone. Every night when I had just fallen asleep in bed, the car would be back with its “cough” to wake me up. Another neighbor was Korean and bought a saxophone; he liked early morning practice the best. Every night I was devoid of sleep from drowsiness by the car, and I was woken up by the saxophone’s weeping sound in the early morning. I often, out of anger from sleep deprivation, wanted to make my way over to speak with them both, but didn’t right away. That car is the Nepalese guy’s career; and the saxophone is the Korean guy’s hobby. How could I let them give up their career and hobby? On behalf of my...
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...a dog is known to bark guk guk, in Catalan it barks bup bup, while in Albania it barks ham ham. A Japanese dog, in turn, barks wanwan, while its counterpart in England barks bow-wow or woof. Pigs also have different sounds depending on where you are in the world. A Mandarin Chinese pig goes hu-lu hu-lu, while further up north in Finland it goes roh roh. Next door in Sweden, a pig goes noff noff, while in Wales it goes soch soch. In the English world, a pig goes oink oink. Bird sounds also vary around the world. In English, a small bird chirps while a medium-sized bird tweets. A larger bird, however, squawks. In Spanish, a bird goes pio pio, while in Korea it will be heard going jek jek. In French? Pit pit. Although animals sound the same the world over, humans, with our many languages, do not. Different human societies simply have different ways of describing similar sounds. Part of it is explained by the speech sounds used in a particular language. Another part by random choice – how a sound was first heard, interpreted and then evolved over thousands of years. The English language offers especially diverse onomatopoeia. Did you know it’s the only language that confers different sounds to birds of different sizes? Maybe you know a few sounds that could be interesting. If so why don’t you take part and get in touch with us? We will love to get people’s help and expand...
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...The Sound Machine Analysis: The written version of The Sound Machine is a more valuable study then the film version. Katarina Hiebert ENG1D October 3, 2014 The sound machine, written by beloved author Roald Dahl, and also now a motion picture, is a unique story filled with depth and feeling. As with most literature made into film, there is controversy about losing context and value while created into movie. Stories as so well thought as this one should be presented and studied in a form that benefits the reader or viewer in the largest way possible. The written version of The Sound Machine is a much more valuable study, because the readers can experience Roald Dahl’s creative writing style, it allows the reader to imagine the characters and supernatural sounds, and preserves the author’s original theme of the story. Roald Dahl is an author that has written many well-loved stories. Some of his most popular works are short stories, including The Sound Machine. In the way the story is written, readers are able to feel how enamoured the character Klausner is with the world of sound. The way Dahl writes his dialogue, readers feel convicted and a part of it. For example, when Klausner so vehemently speaks to the doctor, “I believe that there is a whole world of sound is around us all the time that we cannot hear. It is possible that up there in those areas where sounds are so high we can't hear them, there is a new exciting music being made, a music so powerful that it would...
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...men hammering at the steel- the sole musical evidence of survival." (261-267) in this, Steven Church gives a very illustrative narration of a crowd of people waiting to hear the sound of trapped miners signaling their life from underground. In Church's "Auscultation", the underlying theme is that sound is essential to life. Sound can mean more than words ever could. Steven Church's "Auscultation" is a 4 chamber essay. Personally, I believe that the 4 chambers represent the 4 chambers of the heart. This is relevant due to the topic of the essay; the sound of life. The first chamber sets the tone by describing a mine that collapsed leaving 6 miners trapped in the deathly grasp of the mountain. The second chamber introduces the stethoscope as an essential part of life. The third chamber expresses the importance of the stethoscope, what makes a doctor a doctor, and the different instruments that a doctor has. The fourth and final chamber ends the essay by describing another devastating collapse leaving 9 coal miners trapped by rising water leaving families as well as other miners on edge about the life of their coworker, friend, or loved one. The essay compares a baby's heartbeat to the sound of a sledgehammer hitting metal within the womb of the cave -or stomach. This is because both of those sounds indicate life. Church describes this by musing that the doctors are "...hopelessly dependent on the curl and twisting turns of simple listening technology, the only tool for the...
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...My family is deaf. All my aunts and uncles are deaf. We like to get together and have a good time while making a lot of noise, but it doesn't mean anything to us. My husband is deaf and we had a daughter who was born hearing. We were surprised that she was born hearing. That meant that we had to learn about how sound is interpreted by hearing people. I remember a funny story that I'd like to tell you now. One day, my hearing daughter brought her hearing friends over. They were all sitting in the living room while I was in the kitchen doing dishes and putting them away. My daughter came to me concerned and asked me “Mom, are you okay?” I looked at her confused and said “Yeah, I'm okay.” She said “Well, are you mad?” I said “No, I'm not mad.” She asked “Are you not feeling well?”. I said “No, I feel fine. Why do you ask?” My daughter said that they thought I was mad because I was making loud noises in the kitchen. I said “What do you mean?” She said “You were closing the drawers very hard and putting the dishes away very loudly. My friends said you were angry at me for not helping you clean.” I said “Oh, okay.” The next time she brought her friends over, I told myself “Okay, I got to be careful putting things away.” I cleaned everything very quietly and put everything away carefully, very different from my usual way of doing things in the past. When I was finished doing that, I was exhausted. My daughter came in and asked “Are you okay? You are being very quiet.” I...
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...Matthew Ricci Dr Merricks English 102 28 February 2014 Jet noise throughout South Hampton Roads The sound of freedom or not? Society today is filed with noise; there is no escaping it. The combined toll of occupational, recreational, and environmental noise exposure from sounds that is heard daily can possibly pose a serious public health issue. Everyday noise society looks at as “common” can include heavy construction equipment, sirens from emergency vehicles, lawn mowers and a little more noticeable, jet noise. No denying that anyone who has lived near an airport in any number of big cities or spent time in proximity to a military installation has been exposed to and possibly inconvenienced by the loud sounds of jet aircraft. To the locals that have lived and spent time in the Hampton Roads area, jet noise is as common as hearing a fire engine. Anyone living or working near one of the several military bases in the area or the Norfolk International Airport has heard or been affected in some way by jet noise. Jets noise in this part of Virginia is not just a daily occurrence but also a necessary one in order to preserve troop readiness and even society’s way of life. An examination of the state of global insecurity creating much higher operational military requirements since 9/11 and the economic stability our military bases provide reveal the necessity for higher tolerance of jet noise. Military training and readiness are directly proportional to the rise...
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...|Need of Sound in Films | | | |Sound is used in a film to add emotion and rhythm. Sound makes the film even better. The rhythm, melody, harmony and instrumentation of the music| |can strongly affect the viewer’s emotional reactions. Sound engages a distinct sense which can lead to “synchronization of senses” making a | |single rhythm or expression unify both image and sound. The effects of sound are often largely subtle and often are noted by only our | |subconscious minds. Sound effects can set the whole mood for a movie. Not only sound effects are used in every film but also simple melodies so | |as to make the film more sentimental, cheerful, and frightening. A meaningful sound track is often as complicated as the image on the screen. A | |good movie can make the viewer forget they're watching a movie. But if the sound is bad, it takes us right out of the experience and reminds that| |not only the sound, but the scenery and acting is all make believe. So, the more senses of human body are used, the better because it makes it | |real. | |Secondly,...
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...This research paper will cover sound. It will cover what sound is, how sound waves are created, Parts of a sound wave, Ears, Jobs, and the speed of sound. There will be pictures, equations, and illustrations to help explain the research. sound is an amazing gift from God, and it is important to know what it is. Sound is differing waves of pressure, or vibrations, made by molecules moving back and forth. There are 3 main points of sound: Quality, Amplitude, and Frequency and Pitch. Quality is how well it sounds. Amplitude will be addressed later. Frequency is how often a vibration occurs. Frequency is referred to as Hertz (HZ). Pitch is how high or low sounds are, but is not loudness, though that is a part of sound as well. Frequency and pitch go side by side. If the frequency is high, the pitch is high, if the frequency is low, the pitch is low. The volume, or loudness, of sound is measured in decibels. It is named after Alexander Graham Bell, the creator of the telephone. It was in the beginning just bels, and went from 0 bels to 13 bels, but was not precise enough, so decibels were created. Decibels are a tenth of a bel, and ranges from 0 decibels to 130 decibels. The next point of sound is how sound wave are formed, and what the parts of the sound wave are. The...
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...Research Paper: The Sound of Music The Sound of Music is an American Musical Film. Being released in 1965 The Sound of Music was directed and produced by Robert Wise, although he was not the first choice, he did indeed proved to be the best. It won five Oscars and it was nominated for another Five (The Sound of Music). Richard Rodgers wrote the music with the lyrics done by Oscar Hammerstein II. Based on the true story of the Von Trapp family, who escaped Nazi-ruled Austria in 1938, this film dominated the 1965 Academy Awards, winning Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Score Adaptation and Editing (The Sound of Music (1965)). The Sound of Music is based on a true story. At the end of the 1920s Maria moved into the house of Captain von Trapp to work as governess to his 6 children. After a year, they got married and added another 2 children to their family circle. Von Trapp was a highly decorated World War I veteran and a widower with 7 children, living in Salzburg. Because of an unfortunate financial crisis, Maria started to arrange concerts with the children singing, making a family hobby to a profession. In 1938 when Austria was affiliated by Hitler Germany, Captain von Trapp refused to join Hitler's army. The family had to flee. According to Actlingua, they packed with only their Rucksacks they left all their fortune and belongings behind them and crossed the Alps heading for Italy (The Sound of Music - The Trapp Family). In 1938, they arrived in New York with no money...
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...films, what qualities or qualifications might a filmmaker seek in a production sound mixer? The sound mixer position can vary, depending on the film's budget, needs, and size of crew. 2. What are wild lines, and why are they not present in theatrical productions? Wild lines are lines that the actors repeat because the originals were not said right. When the lines that were repeated are better then they add those lines over the original version. 3. How can footsteps be muffled when filming takes place? The way that foots steps could be muffled when filming is taken place is by putting some type of padding under the actor/actress’s shoes, such as carpet or any type of soft substance. 4. What is ambient sound, and what is its...
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...Semester Term Paper: Film Sound Katayoun Nawabi University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill On my honor, I have neither given nor received aid in completing this assignment. _____________________________ Katayoun Nawabi In analyzing film, critics constantly gloss over the importance of the use of sound. Those critics that do touch on the function of sound often underestimate its role in the overall impact of the film as a whole. There are those that are of the opinion that there has been little, if any, real contributions made by sound in film. Should sound have been added to film at all? A look back at the history of film, from silent movies to “talkies” to major motion pictures of the 1990s, will help establish the fact that film has not only benefited from the addition of sound, but has only gotten more sophisticated with time. “Reevaluating the role of sound in film history and according it its true importance is not purely a critical or historical enterprise. The future of cinema is at stake. It can be better and livelier if it can learn something valuable from its own past” (Chion, 1994, p. 142). There is no argument that, in cinema, it is the image that will continue to radiate power and spectacle. However, the technological and conceptual advances that have been made over the decades reinforce the fact that it is the role of sound to decorate the image and “show” us what it wants us...
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...CHAPTER 5: THE COMING OF SOUND * Films were produced with sound by 1930; to get movies across to non-english audiences subtitling and dubbing was used * Jazz singer- premiered October 6th 1927. Released by Warner Brothers- First sound film * THE IMPACT OF SOUND * Increasing costs: the synchronization of the production of the movie with the production of its sound was very costly. Needed to go to Wall Street to raise funds * More Concentrated ownership in the Industry * The language barrier ( Temporary decline in foreign film rentals) the advantage of films being silent made it universally acceptable, but with sound, Hollywood lost that advantage temporarily till they tried multi-language productions. By 1933- dubbing was used to get to their non-English audience. This was expensive * Development of new genres (music and film): new genres emerged with sophisticated comedies replaced silent comedies of Charlie Chaplin; Hollywood musical period emerged; existing genres transformed. There were also new kinds of genres in music. (Hollywood music popular in late 1920’s to early 1950’s) * Transformation of employment structure (musicians vs. script writers): musicians weren’t needed as much, which was a blow (Depression time). Screenwriters were more in demand, so writers moved towards California. They needed better writers; movies could have...
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