Audio Education
Audio Education: Theory, Culture, and Practice is a groundbreaking volume of 16 chapters exploring the historical perspectives, methodologies, and theoretical underpinnings that shape audio in educational settings. Bringing together insights from a roster of international contributors, this book presents perspectives from researchers, practitioners, educators, and historians. Audio Education highlights a range of timely topics, including environmental sustainability, inclusivity, interaction wit...
Photographers with little or no computer experience, as well as computer users, will find this unique 'how to' book essential reading on using a computer to make high-quality photographs. The book explains how an image is entered into the computer via video camera, videotape or electronic scanner; how the image can be manipulated and enhanced; and how the final image is transferred onto film or paper. Step-by-step instructions take readers through the process of creation of the visuals reproduc...
New Dimensions in Photo Processes (Alternative Process Photography)
by Laura Blacklow
Clear instructions and step-by-step photographs teach you how to mix chemicals and apply light-sensitive emulsions by hand, how to create imagery in and out of the darkroom, how to translocate Polaroid photos and magazine and newspaper pictures, and how to alter black-and-white photographs. A color portfolio highlights the work of internationally known artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Todd Walker, and most recently Doug and Mike Starn, and an invaluable list of supply sources (including e-m...
Buckle up as Douglas Keister takes you for a decidedly retro ride in the world of diminutive travel trailers in Teardrops and Tiny Trailers. The demand for vintage trailers - the smaller the better - has risen dramatically in recent years, with the most in - demand trailers being "teardrops," first manufactured in the 1930s and containing just indoor sleeping space and an outdoor exterior kitchen. Also profiled in the book are "canned ham" trailers, whose shape resembles the profile of a can of...
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. Presenting his quasi-determinism (QD) theory and approach of using small-scale field experiments (SSFEs), author Paolo Boccotti simplifies the findings and techniques honed in his ground-breaking work to provide engineers and...
Explains the devices and means available to create a screen image that enhances the dramatics of the screenplay. Through his own experience and the experiences of respected professionals, the author provides unique, invaluable information on filters, lenses, lighting, labs, testing and evaluation procedures that have been used in Academy Award winning films. Explains the devices and means available to create a screen image that enhances the dramatics of the screenplay. Through his own experi...
Physical Principles of Ultrasonic Technology (Ultrasonic Technology, #2)
Under the action of acoustic vibrations a liquid is converted into the aerosol state at the interface between a gaseous and a liq uid medium. Acoustic energy can be delivered to the atomization zone either on the liquid side or on the gas side. Ordinarily, when acoustic energy is delivered through the gas, the atomization of the liquid is realized by sonic and low-frequency ultrasonic vibra tions because high-frequency ultrasound is rapidly damped in prop agation through gases. But if the aco...
Piezo-Electric Electro-Acoustic Transducers (Microtechnology and MEMS)
by Valeriy Sharapov, Zhanna Sotula, and Larisa Kunickaya
Electroacoustic transducers (EAT) are devices, which transform electric energy to energy of acoustic fluctuations. Principles of action, design of transducers for work in air and water as well as for non-destructive control are described in the book. New technologies of designing EAT, not only expanding designing possibilities, are described. They also allow to create transducers with improved characteristics. In particular, methods to increase target capacity (sound pressure), decrease working...
Since its initial release in 1997, Paul Gilreath's The Guide to MIDI Orchestration has been the premiere text on creating realistic emulations of a symphony orchestra using samplers and computer recording techniques. Now in its fourth edition, The Guide to MIDI Orchestration explains how to merge this ever-expanding technology with the artistry of orchestration to produce the most lifelike recordings possible. The book is written for composers, arrangers, and MIDI musicians of all levels, and wi...
Explains the processes by which viewership of broadcast and cable programs is defined and calculated, and how these figures are used by the industry to sell advertising time and judge whether or not programming is successful.
Computational Analysis of Sound Scenes and Events
This book presents computational methods for extracting the useful information from audio signals, collecting the state of the art in the field of sound event and scene analysis. The authors cover the entire procedure for developing such methods, ranging from data acquisition and labeling, through the design of taxonomies used in the systems, to signal processing methods for feature extraction and machine learning methods for sound recognition. The book also covers advanced techniques for dealin...
This book is written for the guitarist that would like to know how transistor and vacuum tube-based amplifiers, and how various circuits effects work. The main thrust of the material is old school analog circuitry, including heavy coverage of discrete transistors and diodes, classical filter circuits, and vacuum tube-based amplifiers. This book should be useful to electronics hobbyists, technologists and engineers that are interested in guitar-related applications.
Large-Eddy Simulation for Acoustics. Cambridge Aerospace Series. (Cambridge Aerospace)
Acoustic Metamaterials (Springer Series in Materials Science, #166)
About the book: This book is the first comprehensive review on acoustic metamaterials; novel materials which can manipulate sound waves in surprising ways, which include collimation, focusing, cloaking, sonic screening and extraordinary transmission. It covers both experimental and theoretical aspects of acoustic and elastic waves propagating in structured composites, with a focus on effective properties associated with negative refraction, lensing and cloaking. Most related books in the field a...
Proceedings of the ASME Noise Control and Acoustics Division (NCA, v. 24)
Among the subjects covered in 50-some papers from symposia at the November 1997 meeting: radiation and scattering of sound; measurement and signal processing of sound fields; vibroacoustic methods in processing and characterization of advanced materials and structures; powertrain noise; acoustics an