Acoustic and sound engineering

Why does a piano sound like a piano?

This book addresses the analysis of musical sounds from the viewpoint of someone at the intersection between physicists, engineers, piano technicians, and musicians.

Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production shows how changes in the design of music software in the first decades of the twenty-first century shaped the production techniques and performance practices of artists working across media, from hip-hop and electronic dance music to video games and mobile apps.

Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production shows how changes in the design of music software in the first decades of the twenty-first century shaped the production techniques and performance practices of artists working across media, from hip-hop and electronic dance music to video games and mobile apps.

Do you want to learn everything you need to know to be a fantastic video game music composer?

Do you want to learn everything you need to know to be a fantastic video game music composer?

Our day-to-day musical enjoyment seems so simple, so easy, so automatic.

Our day-to-day musical enjoyment seems so simple, so easy, so automatic.

With this all-in-one manual, students and teachers have an easy-to-read reference that provides a reliable and current rundown of the world of sound production, from planning a recording session to mastering the final product.

With this all-in-one manual, students and teachers have an easy-to-read reference that provides a reliable and current rundown of the world of sound production, from planning a recording session to mastering the final product.

With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point.

Incorporating technology in music classrooms can take the mystery out of improvisation.

Incorporating technology in music classrooms can take the mystery out of improvisation.

Creating Sounds from Scratch is a practical, in-depth resource on the most common forms of music synthesis.

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context.

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context.

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context.

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context.

Sound art has long been resistant to its own definition.

Sound art has long been resistant to its own definition.

In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V.

In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V.

With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point.

Ideal for all practitioners of musculoskeletal medicine, this practical pocket guide provides a standardized approach, through detailed checklists and protocols, for a complete ultrasonographic examination of the musculoskeletal system to assist in the diagnosis and management of orthopedic and sports medicine pathologies.

Performing any diagnostic test in medicine is always a matter of trying to get the condition of the patient diagnosed properly with the least effort, exposure, discomfort and at the same time with the lowest possible error probability.

This book is a study of the workings of dynamic loudspeakers and dynamically forced vibration.

This book derives physical models from basic principles, studies the effect of equivalent models on the dynamic characteristics of phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials, and analyzes the physical mechanisms behind vibration and noise reduction.

This undergraduate textbook aids readers in studying music and color, which involve nearly the entire gamut of the fundamental laws of classical as well as atomic physics.

This textbook presents the fundamentals of engineering acoustics and examines in depth concepts within the domain that apply to reducing noise, measuring noise, and designing microphones and loudspeakers.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the fascinating topic of audio source separation based on non-negative matrix factorization, deep neural networks, and sparse component analysis.

In the digital world, the need to protect communications increases every day.

Speech enhancement is a classical problem in signal processing, yet still largely unsolved.

This textbook is an introduction to the dynamics of active structures and to the feedback control of lightly damped flexible structures; the emphasis is placed on basic issues and simple control strategies that work.

This book offers an essential introduction to the notions of sound wave topology, duality, coherence and wave-mixing, which constitute the emerging new science of sound.

This is the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Flow Induced Noise and Vibration (FLINOVIA), which was held in Penn State, USA, in April 2016.

Sound, devoid of meaning, would not matter to us.

Robust Automatic Speech Recognition: A Bridge to Practical Applications establishes a solid foundation for automatic speech recognition that is robust against acoustic environmental distortion.

Frequency Analysis of Vibration Energy Harvesting Systems aims to present unique frequency response methods for analyzing and improving vibration energy harvesting systems.

In the digital world, the need to protect communications increases every day.

Wave Mechanics and Wave Loads on Marine Structures provides a new perspective on the calculation of wave forces on ocean structures, unifying the deterministic and probabilistic approaches to wave theory and combining the methods used in field and experimental measurement.

Now in an updated edition, this is the most comprehensive book on modern ultrasound imaging in assisted reproductive technology (ART) and reproductive medicine.

Vehicle dynamics are vital for optimizing a vehicle's drivability, efficiency, and safety.

Introduction to Audio Analysis serves as a standalone introduction to audio analysis, providing theoretical background to many state-of-the-art techniques.

In this book, the author has collected existing information on the analysis of elastic-plastic structures subjected to variable repeated loads and to variable temperature fields.

In many plants, vibration and noise problems occur due to fluid flow, which can greatly disrupt smooth plant operations.

Building Valve Amplifiers is a unique hands-on guide for anyone working with tube audio equipment--as an electronics hobbyist, audiophile or audio engineer.

The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb.

This book is about how you listen and what you hear, about how to have a dialogue with the sounds around you.

Sound Design for Moving Image offers a clear introduction to sound design theory and practice to help you integrate sound ideas into your productions.

A vast range of audio and audio-associated ICs are readily available for use by design engineers and technicians.