Fifty Years of Digital Sound for Music

Critique of Research Books (Art) / Voices to See: A Review of Sound and Music in Documentaries, Mohammad Nasr Ahadi

Signal Processing for Sound Synthesis: Computer-Generated Sounds and Music for All

D igital sound synthesis is celebrating its 50th birthday in 2007: It was first tested at the Bell Labs by Max Mathews and his colleagues in 1957, but it took quite some time before the technology was ready for the market. Digital music synthesizers were commercialized about 20 years later starting at the end of 1970s. In the mid 1980s, digital synthesizers became popular, when the musical inst...

Fifty Years of Computer Music: Ideas of the Past Speak to the Future

The use of the computer to analyze and synthesize sound in two early forms, additive and FM synthesis, led to new thoughts about synthesizing sound spectra, tuning and pitch. Detached from their traditional association with the timbre of acoustic instruments, spectra become structured and associated with pitch in ways that are unique to the medium of computer music.

بررسی اثر نوع موزیک و تراز فشار صوت بر میزان کالری مصرفی و کارایی فیزیکی دانشجویان از طریق تست تردمیل

Introduction: Listening to music during physical activity reduces the perceived stress on body. Hence, this study aimed to evaluate the effects of music genre and sound pressure level on calorie consumption and physical performance of students during treadmill tests. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 27 students were randomly selected. A demographic questionnaire, Borg Rating of Percei...

Real-time Control and Creative Convolution

This paper covers and also describes an ongoing research project focusing on new artistic possibilities by exchanging music technological methods and techniques between two distinct musical genres. Through my background as a guitarist and composer in an experimental metal band I have experienced a vast development in music technology during the last 20 years. This development has made a great i...