Posts Tagged ‘harmony’
Human speech is music to our ears
DUKE (US)—Humans may love music, biologically speaking, because it mimics the sounds of our own voices. Neuroscientists say the use of 12 tone intervals in the music of many human cultures is rooted in the physics of how our vocal anatomy produces speech and conveys emotion. Continue…
Thursday, December 3, 2009 12:21 - 0 Comments
Science & Technology - Nov 11, 2009 15:39 - 0 Comments
Virtual crashes sound like the real thing
CORNELL (US)—When you kick over a garbage can, it doesn’t make a pure, musical tone. That’s why the sound is so hard to synthesize. Now computer scientists have developed a practical method to generate the crashing and rumbling sounds of objects made up of thin “harmonic shells.” (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 1, 2009 11:41 - 0 Comments
Computers get a lesson in the sound of water
The sounds produced by pouring and splashing water result from the vibration of trapped air bubbles. Cornell University researchers have developed a new method to simulate those sounds by computing how the bubbles would behave in the real world.
