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Dissonant Waves

Author : Sam Dolbear
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1913380556
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Dissonant Waves written by Sam Dolbear and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how a generation of cultural operators—with Schoen at the center—addressed crisis and adversity. Dials, knobs, microphones, clocks; heads, hands, breath, voices. Ernst Schoen joined Frankfurt Radio in the 1920s as programmer and accelerated the potentials of this collision of bodies and technologies. As with others of his generation, Schoen experienced crisis after crisis, from the violence of war, the suicide of friends, economic collapse, and a brief episode of permitted experimentalism under the Weimar Republic for those who would foster aesthetic, technical, and political revolution. The counterreaction was Nazism—and Schoen and his milieux fell victim to it, found ways out of it, or hit against it with all their might. Dissonant Waves tracks the life of Ernst Schoen—poet, composer, radio programmer, theorist, and best friend of Walter Benjamin from childhood—as he moves between Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, and London. It casts radio history and practice into concrete spaces, into networks of friends and institutions, into political exigencies and domestic plights, and into broader aesthetic discussions of the politicization of art and the aestheticization of politics. Through friendship and comradeship, a position in state-backed radio, imprisonment, exile, networking in a new country, re-emigration, ill-treatment, neglect, Schoen suffers the century and articulates its broken promises. An exploration of the ripples of radio waves, the circuits of experimentation and friendship, and the proposals that half-found a route into the world—and might yet spark political-technical experimentation.

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The American Journal of the Medical Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pretty Ugly

Author : Charles Maurer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152753894X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Pretty Ugly written by Charles Maurer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People are chemical machines, yet we (and some other animals) develop a sense of beauty. Why and how did it evolve? How is it formed? This book answers these questions from the perspective of scientists with deep knowledge of the arts. It interweaves experimental sciences with the histories of art, architecture, music, dance, speech, literature, and food. Although we perceive each of our senses to be dramatically different, the authors show them all to be similar under the hood—similar in how they function and in how they shape our aesthetic experience. The authors cover many fields, and do not assume the reader has any special knowledge or expertise. They avoid jargon, equations and formulae, and begin every discussion at an introductory level. However, introductory does not mean elementary. This is a broad knife that cuts deep.

Proceedings

Author : Texas Medical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings written by Texas Medical Association and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Psychology of Music

Author : Diana Deutsch
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780122135651
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Music written by Diana Deutsch and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On interpreting musical phenomena in terms of mental function

Modern Recording Techniques

Author : David Miles Huber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0240806255
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Modern Recording Techniques written by David Miles Huber and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the guide to audio has been expanded to include the latest on digital audio technology and features new sections on multimedia, the Web, surround sound and mastering.

What Self-Donation Is

Author : Sylvester L. Steffen
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452034958
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book What Self-Donation Is written by Sylvester L. Steffen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About "Uninformed Conscience" John F. Kavanaugh, S.J. says "If a nation or church forms its people to accept assertions blindly, without supporting evidence, it will form a community not of moral agents but of menaces. They may be sincere, but they will be sincere menaces." [AMERICA, June 21-28, 2010, pg 9] Conscience speaks to the meaning of Eucharist. If we buy in to the Eucharistic Theology of the Cosmic Christ, we must be open to the vital coinage of death. The multiplication of many from one is the miracle of divine/ human hypostasis, the miracle of the largesse of symbiotic life. The amplification of life speaks to the truth that less is more, that unless the seed dies there is no flourishing and amplification of life. Individuality resources multiplicity even as multiplicity resources individuality; spirituality is resurrection-consciousness, the energy of prevision and provision that does not die but transforms and transfers into multiplicity. Resurrection is the consciousness of self-reflective vitality. About Eucharist, right as grain says it best. It is in dying that we live; it is in giving that we receive; that we become one with Other-the personal oneness of Eucharist in the Cosmic Christ. Wisdom is Eucharistic consciousness, the intentional embrace of transformation. In mindfulness we become the "good seed" that greens the greater abundance of life. The greening of life from the dying seed informs the adage "better to give than receive." And so must be our individual relationship with each other and nature. What Self Donation Is is about living the fulfilled, abundant life of informed conscience, not by blind submission to cultural death as imposed by worldview blindness of staticism and centrism. Faith in absolutism is blind; openness to evolution is visionary. Absolutism misinforms conscience and cultures premature death; transformation informs and matures open life.

Light and Waves

Author : Steven S. Andrews
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031240979
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Light and Waves written by Steven S. Andrews and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-13 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores light and other types of waves, using this as a window into other aspects of physics. It emphasizes a conceptual understanding, using examples chosen from everyday life and the natural environment. For example, it explains how hummingbird feathers create shimmering colors, how musical instruments produce sound, and how atoms stick together to form molecules. It provides a unique perspective on physics by emphasizing commonalities among different types of waves, including string waves, water waves, sound waves, light waves, the matter waves of quantum mechanics, and the gravitational waves of general relativity. This book is targeted toward college non-science majors, advanced high school students, and adults who are curious about our physical world. It assumes familiarity with algebra but no further mathematics and is classroom-ready with many worked examples, exercises, exploratory puzzles, and appendices to support students from a variety of backgrounds.

Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale

Author : William A. Sethares
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447141776
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale written by William A. Sethares and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale focuses on perceptions of consonance and dissonance, and how these are dependent on timbre. This also relates to musical scale: certain timbres sound more consonant in some scales than others. Sensory consonance and the ability to measure it have important implications for the design of audio devices and for musical theory and analysis. Applications include methods of adapting sounds for arbitrary scales, ways to specify scales for nonharmonic sounds, and techniques of sound manipulation based on maximizing (or minimizing) consonance. Special consideration is given here to a new method of adaptive tuning that can automatically adjust the tuning of a piece based its timbral character so as to minimize dissonance. Audio examples illustrating the ideas presented are provided on an accompanying CD. This unique analysis of sound and scale will be of interest to physicists and engineers working in acoustics, as well as to musicians and psychologists.

Dissonance

Author : Sean Alexander Gurd
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823269663
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Dissonance written by Sean Alexander Gurd and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power to express and cause extreme emotion. They made sound too, artfully and self-consciously creating songs and poems that reveled in sonorousness. Dissonance reveals the commonalities between ancient Greek auditory art and the concerns of contemporary sound studies, avant-garde music, and aesthetics, making the argument that “classical” Greek song and drama were, in fact, an early European avant-garde, a proto-exploration of the aesthetics of noise. The book thus develops an alternative to that romantic ideal which sees antiquity as a frozen and silent world.

Smart Graphics

Author : Andreas Butz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540732144
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Smart Graphics written by Andreas Butz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2007, held in Kyoto, Japan in June 2007 jointly with the Visual Computing / Graphics and CAD symposium, which takes place in Osaka, Japan. It covers interaction, lifelike characters and affective computing, knowledge-based graphics generation and interaction, and visualization and graphics algorithms.

Wardenclyffe

Author : F. Paul Wilson
Publisher : JournalStone
ISBN 13 : 1947654608
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Wardenclyffe written by F. Paul Wilson and published by JournalStone. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from the editorial in The Journal of New Historical Perspectives, Vol. 3, #4, 2011: On the night of July 15, 1903, Nikola Tesla powered up his 190-foot tower in Wardenclyffe on Long Island’s north shore. The bolts of energy radiating from the apical dome were visible as far away as New Haven, Connecticut. This was the first and last time anyone would witness such a display. Three years later, broke and unable to secure further funding, Tesla abandoned the Wardenclyffe tower and his dream of worldwide wireless power. He returned to Manhattan where he promptly suffered a nervous breakdown. So say the history books. But new evidence has surfaced that a shadowy fraternal order stepped in and provided generous funding after J. P. Morgan reneged. Witnesses state that testing of the tower continued but only on foggy days when the discharges would not be noticed. The final test took place on April 18, 1906. Around dawn, in heavy fog, the tower was charged to maximum capacity; across the Atlantic, in Abereiddy, Wales, two copper prongs attached to a 50-watt lightbulb were thrust into the ground. The bulb lit. Tesla had proved that worldwide wireless power was possible. Why then, at the moment of his greatest vindication, did Nikola Tesla abandon his project? What could possibly have transpired at Wardenclyffe that day to so rattle him that he would deny the world his transformative technology? We may never know.

The Physics of Oscillations and Waves

Author : Ingram Bloch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489900500
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book The Physics of Oscillations and Waves written by Ingram Bloch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Except for digressions in Chapters 8 and 17, this book is a highly unified treatment of simple oscillations and waves. The phenomena treated are "simple" in that they are de scribable by linear equations, almost all occur in one dimension, and the dependent variables are scalars instead of vectors or something else (such as electromagnetic waves) with geometric complications. The book omits such complicated cases in order to deal thoroughly with properties shared by all linear os cillations and waves. The first seven chapters are a sequential treatment of electrical and mechanical oscillating systems, starting with the simplest and proceeding to systems of coupled oscillators subjected to ar bitrary driving forces. Then, after a brief discussion of nonlinear oscillations in Chapter 8, the concept of normal modes of motion is introduced and used to show the relationship between os cillations and waves. After Chapter 12, properties of waves are explored by whatever mathematical techniques are applicable. The book ends with a short discussion of three-dimensional vii viii Preface problems (in Chapter 16), and a study of a few aspects of non linear waves (in Chapter 17).

Optimal Control Theory with Applications in Economics

Author : Thomas A. Weber
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262015730
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Optimal Control Theory with Applications in Economics written by Thomas A. Weber and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorous introduction to optimal control theory, with an emphasis on applications in economics. This book bridges optimal control theory and economics, discussing ordinary differential equations, optimal control, game theory, and mechanism design in one volume. Technically rigorous and largely self-contained, it provides an introduction to the use of optimal control theory for deterministic continuous-time systems in economics. The theory of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is the backbone of the theory developed in the book, and chapter 2 offers a detailed review of basic concepts in the theory of ODEs, including the solution of systems of linear ODEs, state-space analysis, potential functions, and stability analysis. Following this, the book covers the main results of optimal control theory, in particular necessary and sufficient optimality conditions; game theory, with an emphasis on differential games; and the application of control-theoretic concepts to the design of economic mechanisms. Appendixes provide a mathematical review and full solutions to all end-of-chapter problems. The material is presented at three levels: single-person decision making; games, in which a group of decision makers interact strategically; and mechanism design, which is concerned with a designer's creation of an environment in which players interact to maximize the designer's objective. The book focuses on applications; the problems are an integral part of the text. It is intended for use as a textbook or reference for graduate students, teachers, and researchers interested in applications of control theory beyond its classical use in economic growth. The book will also appeal to readers interested in a modeling approach to certain practical problems involving dynamic continuous-time models.

Acoustics and Psychoacoustics

Author : David Howard
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1136121587
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Acoustics and Psychoacoustics written by David Howard and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acoustics of a recording space can have a real impact on the sounds you create and capture. The book gives an essential grounding and understanding to how real music sounds behave and are perceived in real spaces. With a clear and simple style Howard and Angus walk you through the theory- the science of sound engineering and music production, and the practical ? how to apply it to music spaces so create professional sound, using real world examples and providing audio clips and recorded sounds to work with. Updated throughout the new edition uncovers the acoustic application for today's recording industry. The website is packed with audio clips, questions and answers, a calculation facility as well as links and resources.

The Collected Poems of Lord De Tabley

Author : John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Lord De Tabley written by John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eclogues and Monodramas; Or, A Collection of Verses

Author : John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Eclogues and Monodramas; Or, A Collection of Verses written by John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: