George Prochnik: In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · acoustics, listening, noise, psychology, sound recording
“Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe. Traveling across the country and meeting and listening to a host of incredible characters, including doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.”
Publisher Doubleday, Random House, 2010
ISBN 0385528884, 9780385528887
352 pages
EPUB (updated on 2019-12-10)
Comments (2)Stan Tempelaars (ed.): Signal Processing, Speech, and Music (1996)
Filed under book | Tags: · acoustics, music, signal processing, sound recording
This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory of signals and systems and the way in which this theory is applied to the study of acoustic communication (both digital and analogue): the development of systems for producing, transmitting and processing speech and music signals. The book is designed to make the reader acquainted with the refined and powerful theoretical and practical tools available for this purpose. The book teaches understanding of such concepts as amplitude and phase spectrum, impulse and frequency response, amplitude and frequency modulation, as well as such methods for the analysis and synthesis of speech and musical systems like LPC and wave shaping. The use of complex numbers is avoided and a knowledge of mathematics beyond that of secondary school level is not necessary.
Publisher Swets & Zeitlinger, 1996
Volume 1 of Studies on new music research
ISBN 9026514816, 9789026514814
334 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-8-3)
Comment (0)Leo L Beranek: Acoustics (1954/1993) [English/Spanish]
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Classic textbook in the acoustics.
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America, New York
PDF (no OCR) [English] (updated on 2012-8-3)
PDF [Spanish] (updated on 2012-8-3)