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Use your book (Audio in Media) and answer the following questions. Click on “Leave a comment” to submit your answers.
1.One of the following is not a characteristic of sound: (p. 1)
a. it is emitted directionally
b. it can be layered
c. it is attention-demanding
d. it has a visual component
2. Sound can provide the listener with considerable cognitive information. Which of the following is not considered cognitive processing? (p. 3)
a. memory
b. reasoning
c. judgment
d. information relating to emotion, feeling, and mood
3. Sound also provides affective information. Which of the following is not considered affective processing? (p. 1)
a. emotion
b. feeling
c. knowledge
d. mood
4. Loud sounds cause hearing loss by damaging hair cells in the: (p. 3)
a. outer ear
b. cochlea
c. middle ear
d. auditory canal
5. Loud sounds can raise blood pressure, cause stomach trouble, tension, anxiety, fatigue, and crankiness. (p. 5)
a. true
b. false
6. Prolonged exposure to loud sound can bring on: (p. 5)
a. the threshold of pain
b. cochleal synapsis
c. inner ear syndrome
d. tinnitus
7. Having educated ears means: (p.7)
a. knowing how to have healthy ears
b. the ability to listen with careful discrimination to sound
c. knowing musical styles and musical theory
d. knowing what sounds are to loud
8. Analytical listening: (p. 8)
a. is the same as critical listening
b. involves evaluation of the characteristics of the sound itself
c. is the evaluation of the content and function of sound cannot be learned
9. Audio professionals must be able to listen both critically and analytically (p. 8)
a. true
b. false
Peep the flyer and join us First Friday, February the 4th. Prepare 2 poems under 3 minutes and compete or just come enjoy a battle of words.
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Technology has led to the discovery of vaccines and medical treatments. It has brought computers and televisions into people’s homes and it has provided us with electricity, the internet, phones, cars, planes and much more. But an argument can be made that technology has largely worsened the quality of our lives, polluting the air, making our lives needlessly stressful & dampening our enthusiasm for books…
If you had to give up one technological advantage that you use all the time, what would it be ? Do you think you’d do be better off with out it ?
Record numbers of Americans are turning to higher education to give them a stronger edge in the job market. One of the fastest growing—and most controversial—sectors of the higher-education industry is for-profit colleges and universities. In this video clip from College, Inc., students will learn about the aggressive marketing of for-profit colleges, concerns about their enrollment practices, and how the debt load for students at for-profit schools is often more than twice that of those at traditional schools.
1) How do federal grants and loans benefit both students and for-profit schools?
2) Why do many graduates find it difficult to repay student loans?
3) Do you feel the for-profit schools that arrange for these loans are partly responsible for the problem? Explain.
4) For-profit institutions say they provide a valuable service to low-income and adult students that traditional higher education has given up on. Do you agree or disagree?
5) Critics of for-profit schools say such institutions use high-pressure sales tactics to recruit students, provide easy access to federal financial aid, load them with debt, and leave the taxpayer stuck with the bill. Do you agree or disagree?
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This is the inside story of Street Art – a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world’s most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results.
1. Name 2 artists mentioned in the film.
2. Who is the filmmaker obsessed with filming?
Chiptunes are everywhere, and if you’ve been intrigued by them, this article will help you create your very own out of just about any song.
Chiptunes are traditionally created using sound chips from old computer systems and game consoles. Some of the best examples of chip music can be made using Commodore 64s, GameBoys and the original NES. Since these pieces of hardware could only generate sounds and tones over a few channels, there is difficulty in creating complex songs. Along with the fact that this kind of circuit bending is not for a novice like myself and the learning curve tends to be very high. I wanted to find a way to accomplish this without spending days learning and researching software or hardware.
I am not trying to devalue chiptunes in any way, it definitely is an art form. I just want to present an alternative for those that are curious in creating their own masterpiece. So if we’re not going to need hardware and complicated software, what are we going to use? Using GarageBand ’09, a plugin and a MIDI file, you can convert a song you already know and love into a chiptune.
First thing is to find a MIDI version of a song you want to create. I just went to Google and searched for “Muse midi” and quickly found a Muse song that would work. Save the MIDI file on your computer for later. Now we need to download the Magical 8-bit Plugin from the YMCK website and put the magical8bitPlug.component file in the/Libraries/Audio/Plug-ins/Component folder.
- Startup GarageBand and start new project by selecting the Piano. This will create a single track project that we can import our MIDI file into.
- Now drag your MIDI file into GarageBand and you will see it create new tracks for each voice in the MIDI file.
- Double-click a track to change the instrument from the Piano to our chiptune instrument.
- Click the Edit tab and then click the drop-down where it says “Piano” and select “Magical8bitPlug”
- Now if you want to tweak that tracks sound, click the Plugin logo and play around with the settings.
- This needs to be setup for every track except the drums. Use your creativity and change the track sounds to match the instrument they’re representing. The drum track needs some special attention and since the plugin won’t work for this, I did the following.
- Change the drum track sound to the Hip Hop drum Kit.
- Add a new effect to this track. Use theBitcrusher effect and select whatever settings sound good to you. I used Wave Deconstruction.
Now you may have to tweak the volume levels on each track to your liking but for the most part, you are done. Export an MP3 and amaze your friends! Well maybe not if they read this article too, but with this knowledge you could create your own music and use the chiptune sounds as your instruments. I know this is not as hardcore as true circuit bending, so don’t send me angry emails. It’s more of a fun little project to please your creative side. Share your own creations with us through the comments and check out my final results in the audio clip below.
