Asa, Allyson, and Davies: Three Amazons of Tonal Integrity in Yoruba Vocal Music
Eastern African Journal of Humanities and Social SciencesThe existing body of literature has engaged the translation of English hymns to the Yorùbá language by European missionaries sung to European tunes, which constituted linguistic distortion of the Yorùbá language. Little or no attention has been given to
Tolu Owoaje, Oluwaseun Owoaje
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Trends in Hearing, 2014 The signal processing and fitting methods used for hearing aids have mainly been designed to optimize the intelligibility of speech. Little attention has been paid to the effectiveness of hearing aids for listening to music.
Sara M. K. Madsen, Brian C. J. Moore
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An AI‐Enabled All‐In‐One Visual, Proximity, and Tactile Perception Multimodal Sensor
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Targeting integrated multimodal perception of robots, an AI‐enabled all‐in‐one multimodal sensor is proposed. This sensor is capable of perceiving three types of modalities, including vision, proximity, and tactility. By toggling an ultraviolet light and adjusting the camera focus, it switches smoothly between multiple perceptual modalities, enabling ...
Menghao Pu +7 more
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Effects processors for electric guitar: a physical approach to teaching wave theory [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Ensino de FísicaThis work explores the intersection of music and physics through the use of signal and audio processors on the electric guitar, focusing on wave physics and timbre manipulation. It posits that physics is crucial in designing and operating electric guitar
A.W.D. Costa, J.P.M. Braga
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The effect of dynamic range compression on the psychoacoustic quality and loudness of commercial music [PDF]
, 2010 It is common practice for music productions to be mastered with the aim of increasing the perceived loudness for the listener, allowing one record to stand out from another by delivering an immediate impact and intensity.
Campbell, William +2 more
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I Am Big, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Sound Technologies and Franz Waxman’s Scores for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Twilight Zone’s “The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine” (1959) [PDF]
, 2017 Franz Waxman composed over 150 film scores, the most famous of which is Billy Wilder’s film noir Sunset Boulevard (1950). The film plot bears a striking resemblance to Rod Serling’s teleplay for The Twilight Zone, “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” (1959 ...
Reba Wissner
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A Virtual Clinical Trial of Psychedelics to Treat Patients With Disorders of Consciousness
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Disorders of consciousness after severe brain injury are marked by reduced complexity of brain activity and limited treatment options. Using personalized whole‐brain models, this study shows that simulated lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin shift patient brain dynamics closer to criticality.
Naji L.N. Alnagger +17 more
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Influence of the Quality of Consumer Headphones in the Perception of Spatial Audio
Applied Sciences, 2016 High quality headphones can generate a realistic sound immersion reproducing binaural recordings. However, most people commonly use consumer headphones of inferior quality, as the ones provided with smartphones or music players.
Pablo Gutierrez-Parera, Jose J. Lopez
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Femme-liminale: corporeal performativity in death metal [PDF]
, 2014 Given the research undertaken into notions of Dark Leisure (Spracklen, 2013), space becomes an engendered negotiated terrain not only in terms of performing masculine inscribed music such as Death Metal but occupying space within the scene itself ...
Shadrack, Jasmine Hazel
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Read my lips: speech distortions in musical lyrics can be overcome (slightly) by facial information [PDF]
Speech Communication, 2009 Understanding the lyrics of many contemporary songs is difficult, and an earlier study [Hidalgo-Barnes, M., Massaro, D.W., 2007. Read my lips: an animated face helps communicate musical lyrics. Psychomusicology 19, 3-12] showed a benefit for lyrics recognition when seeing a computer-animated talking head (Baldi^(R)) mouthing the lyrics along with ...
Massaro, D., Jesse, A.
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