Keeping Sound Out to Keep Sound In

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"Instinctually I am listening for the
sound of her breathing or to the sound
of her swallowing, and if those noises
sound okay then I’m listening to the
sounds of the house to make sure
monsters don’t come out of the walls to
hurt her"

"Instinctually I am listening for the
sound of her breathing or to the sound
of her swallowing, and if those noises
sound okay then I’m listening to the
sounds of the house to make sure
monsters don’t come out of the walls to
hurt her" 08/27/2004 03:50 PM

In clapping both hands a sound is heard:
what is the sound of the one hand?

In clapping both hands a sound is heard:
what is the sound of the one hand? 12/03/2003 04:54 PM
What is the sound of one hand clapping? An interesting excerpt from The Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans With Answers that involves a dialogue between the master and the student that answers this koan. (I suppose this could technically be considered a spoiler.)

Sound

Sound 07/18/2004 05:42 AM
Sound

1)Canada Science and Technology Museum: Information on Sound
http://snipurl.com/7t3w
2)Art Ludwig's Sound Page
http://www.silcom.com/Ealudwig/
3)Fox Mill Elementary School: Sound Tasks
http://www.fcps. k12.va.us/FoxMillES/sound.html
4)Science Museum of Minnesota: The Sound Site
http://www.smm.org/sound/
5)American Institute of Physics: Physics as a Sound Investment
http://www .aip.org/success/soundinvestment/index.htm
6)Acoustics Research Institute
http://www.kfs.oeaw.ac.at/
7)Exploratorium: The Science of Music
http://www.explor atorium.edu/music/index.html

The science of sound is relevant to the music we hear and produce, the ways ships communicate underwater, and much more. The interactive aspect of the World Wide Web provides a fun platform for learning about sound. The websites covered in this Topic in Depth provide an overview of the science of sound, the applications of acoustics, and fun ways to learn about all of it. The Canada Science and Technology Museum provides a nice overview of the science of sound (1). The second website (2) also discusses some of the basics and also provides video and sound files to demonstrate the concepts. The third link takes you to a website that guides the visitor to various websites to get answers to some interesting questions about sound, such as What is the difference between noise and music? and how do dolphins use sound to communicate? (3). The Science Museum of Minnesota offers the Sound Site (4). For more on acoustics research areas, see some of the projects at the Acoustics Research Institute In Austria (6) such as omputational Acoustics and Digital Signal Processing. Last but not least, this website from the Exploratorium (7) takes you through some of the connections between science and music. [ From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/]

Stop, hey, what's that sound?

Stop, hey, what's that sound? 07/07/2004 07:23 PM
People are just beginning, it seems, to wake up to the fact that most digital music today doesn't sound as good as it could. That's because the most popular compression formats -- including both the lingua franca MP3 standard and the standard Apple uses for its ITunes store -- are "lossy": To make the file size smaller, they trade off some loss of information (and therefore sound quality).

This latest round in the discussion seems to have kicked off with a Randall Stross column in the Sunday New York Times, but it dates back at least as far as Andrew Leonard's early, groundbreaking coverage of the MP3 phenomenon in Salon. Stross points out that Apple's choice of a good but still "lossy" compression standard for its music store means that -- surprise! -- you're really not getting CD quality audio when you pay for your $9.99 album.

Continuing the thread, Tim Bray writes: "I used to think that if you were listening to music on headphones on a bus or train or plane or in a crowd, the MP3 lossage really didn’t matter much. But recently I’ve been listening to the Shure 3C phones, and it’s obvious that we really shouldn’t be ignoring these compression issues; in particular since lossless compression is available right here, right now."

Well, yes. We have the technology! The problem here is not technical, it's political, legal, financial.

The odd thing to me is that Stross's column -- which appeared in the Business section, after all -- failed to mention the obvious: that the record labels are selling lossy versions of songs online because they still distrust the new medium, even when it is being used legally and when people are paying for their product. They're more interested in propping up their sagging CD business than in quickly exploiting a new marketplace. So after years of dithering they figure, OK, we'll sell our wares on the Net -- but let's only provide crippled versions. The crippling applies not only to Apple's DRM schemes (lord knows whether you'll still have access to that music, 10 years and three computers from now) but to the 128 kbps bit rate of the songs you buy. It was one thing to accept that tradeoff in 1998 when MP3s were underground, hard disks were smaller and most of the world was on dialup connections. Today, it makes no sense.

I don't doubt that the DRM and bit-rate compromises were part of the horsetrading Steve Jobs had to engage in to get the record labels in the door in the first place. But it doesn't make me want to sink my cash into purchases on iTunes. (At EMusic, by contrast -- which I still subscribe to despite my hissy fit when they stopped offering unlimited downloads -- I pay for music and receive it uncrippled by DRM and in a higher quality, though still not perfect, format.)

The prevalence of cruddy 128 kbps music in the online marketplace demonstrates that the music industry still don't believe in online distribution: It still don't trust us, even when we're paying for the music.

The real issue for the recording industry has never been loss of profits due to piracy, because no one has ever proven that there is a direct connection between piracy and declining CD sales (in fact, quite the contrary). What the industry fears is loss of control. Individual consumers -- like Andrew, who wrote a column about this last week -- want to buy their music and then do whatever they want with it: Put it on an iPod, put it in the car, burn new CD mixes, share with friends. It's what we've always done with our music, after all; we just have better tools today.

There are audiophiles out there, of course, who turn up their noses at "CD quality" -- which is itself "lossy" compared with higher-quality audio formats. But meanwhile, the vast majority of music lovers who are reasonably content with their CDs aren't getting their money's worth when they buy online.

So remember: when you rip your own CDs to MP3, use at least a 160 kbps rate, or higher if you've got a big disk, or a "Variable Bit Rate" if your ripper supports that. The added file size is negligible given how cheap storage is today, but your ears will thank you. And the next time you think of buying music from an online store, tell them you won't settle for anything less.

" How grammatically sound are you? "

" How grammatically sound are you? " 04/17/2004 03:09 PM

The Sound of Cells

The Sound of Cells 04/16/2004 01:08 PM

Desire, Thy Name Is Sound

Desire, Thy Name Is Sound 11/11/2003 11:21 PM
Lust

What's the sound of silence?

What's the sound of silence? 07/15/2004 05:17 AM
it's the sound of your heart beating it's the sound of darkness It's the sound of the wind blowing life...

The Sound of Despair

The Sound of Despair 05/25/2004 11:37 PM
the sad sound of a kylie reject

Searching without a sound

Searching without a sound 05/27/2004 08:00 AM
ZDNet May 27 2004 12:46PM GMT

Miniscule of Sound

Miniscule of Sound 07/14/2004 10:00 AM
This sounds pretty funny en pixel, and I'm sure it'd be even more if you stumbled on it at a humongoid ravefest with e'd out dancing bodies as far as they eye can see. It's a parody of techno music industry media gigantor Ministry of Sound.

Following on from the ice-cream van dub sound system and the piano bar on wheels, i'd like to draw your attention to the Miniscule of Sound. i've been going to summertime festivals in the uk for years, and these guys have been on the circuit for almost a decade. It's basically a converted horsebox kitted out on the inside with disco ball, coloured lights, day-glo fluffy roof, light-panelled dancefloor, and a dj (usually) dressed as one of the vilage people playing something cheesey on a tiny pair of decks. The door staff on the outside advise us they are "'avin it tiny!" on the way in. Club capacity is about 8, maybe 9 at a squeeze. As clubbing experiences go, it's one of the best and it's free. If you see them at a festie this year, pay them a visit.

Link (thanks sim0nkey!)

How Does A 0% Lease Sound?

How Does A 0% Lease Sound? 04/22/2004 06:41 PM
If you need a new Apple hardware, now might be the time to grab it. 0% is pretty good. By Sean Bonner, Unofficial Apple Weblog (via MyAppleMenu)

sound visualizer

sound visualizer 09/02/2004 10:15 AM
Overview

Sound bites

Sound bites 08/12/2004 11:35 AM
The following blurb appeared in my RSS reader this morning:

Paul Graham: Great Hackers

In one of the most entertaining presentations [clip] from OSCON 2004, Paul Graham answers the questions, what motivates great hackers? [clip] What do they need to do their jobs? How do you recognize them? [clip] How do you get them to come and work for you? [clip] And how can you become one?

[IT Conversations]

I missed Paul Graham's talk at OSCON, but caught some of the ripple effects -- in particular, the reaction to his trashing of Java in favor of Python. This blurb, from the IT Conversations RSS feed, gave me a link to the clip. By repeating the link here, in conjunction with some keywords -- "Paul Graham Java Python" -- I'm pretty certain that in a week or so, this Google query will lead you to the item you are now reading, and thence (if you're so inclined) to Graham's controversial remark, and thence (if you're further inclined) to the complete 30-minute segment posted by Doug Kaye at IT Conversations. ...

Searching For Sound

Searching For Sound 05/27/2004 11:04 AM
Many people have pointed out that search engines (yes, mainly Google) are now the "front end to the internet." However, how does that work when the internet is increasingly not just about text? Especially as broadband catches on around the world, more and more content is audio and visual content. Both new and old search engines are now working on better ways to sort through that content - using metadata and speech recognition to understand what's being said. The article uses NPR as the main example, describing how they use voice recognition technology to create immediate transcripts of their audio, which are completely searchable. They admit that these transcripts are later replaced by "more accurate" human written transcripts, but that the automated ones work well enough. The article also focuses on StreamSage, which seems to be one of the more advanced tools. It uses voice recognition to transcribe audio - but also tries to add in some contextual analysis to create an automated "table of contents" for the file, so searching through it is much easier.

Directed Sound

Directed Sound 05/04/2004 08:03 AM

What is the Sound of One Ear Listening?

What is the Sound of One Ear Listening? 12/02/2003 12:36 AM
Paul Gilster writes about the problem of audiences at events with Wi-Fi access: The not-so-silent clacking of keys provides a sensory backdrop much like a white-noise generator. You speak, and a constant barrage of tippity tap tap clack clickety clack echoes in the background. It's not symmetrical: at times, people listen and the typing stops. Other times, one lone typer hammers away--is he or she blogging what you're saying or playing Doom? The sounds rises and falls randomly in different parts of the room. Interestingly, he talks about the second level of communication being a basement meeting, but I think he hasn't seen an O'Reilly conference in action. At Emerging Technology in April, there were always several simultaneous channels: it was more like instant analysis and commentary of a live event. People would blog and post; using IM, including IRC channels; use SubEthaEdit (ne Hydra) for Mac OS X Rendezvous collaborative note taking; use some of the unique services for discussion or note posting. [via Smart Mobs]...

Sound Byte 2.2.0

Sound Byte 2.2.0 05/12/2004 11:04 PM
Computerized cart machine for playing sound files.

Stop. What's That Sound?

Stop. What's That Sound? 08/03/2004 02:21 PM
"When the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four years in a war ... with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world cannot manage its economy ... when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad, or to any major city at home, then it's time for new leadership for the United States." The ellipses are to keep you from guessing too soon. Give up? That was Dick Nixon in 1968. Nowadays Kennedy and Johnson are heroes who made a "mistake" in Vietnam while Nixon twirls a handlebar mustache in Hell. But to look back at what we thought at the time is to see parallels to today.

Sound Orgy

Sound Orgy 11/16/2003 04:46 AM
It's quiet right now.

The Sound Of The Future

The Sound Of The Future 12/24/2003 10:26 PM
Far from being pessimistic about the state of music in the digital era, the major labels in Japan are excited about the prospects in front of them. By Paul Jackson (Daily Yomiuri via MyAppleMenu)

MP3 sound bites

MP3 sound bites 09/06/2004 11:54 PM

In the inaugural column of this series on hypermedia, I mentioned an MP3 clipping service I wrote to enable quotation of sound bites. Before I explain how it works, let's review why it exists. Audio content -- and of particular interest to me, spoken-word audio content -- is flourishing. In the tech world, Doug Kaye's ITConversations web site is a great example. It features audio interviews with IT personalities, as well as recorded speeches from conferences -- including the recent O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Kaye's audio engineering credentials are impeccable, but nowadays anyone can pick up a microphone and speak into an MP3 file. Today, for example, I listened to Dave Winer's thoughts on the business model for Wi-Fi and blogs, recorded while he was driving northward in Wisconsin. In my own journalistic work, I increasingly record and post audio interviews.

Although the amount of audio content keeps growing, the time available for listening remains constant. Until and unless we achieve a radical breakthrough in speech-to-text translation -- and I'm not holding my breath -- we'll need to find another way to make audio content more granular, and easier to consume selectively. [Full story at O'Reilly Network]

I've been using the service described here for a while now. For this column, the second in a planned series on hypermedia, I rewrote and published the code in hopes that others will be inspired to help move the project forward. ...

New 5.1 sound card out for Mac and PC

New 5.1 sound card out for Mac and PC 08/06/2004 08:03 PM
macteens Aug 7 2004 0:29AM GMT

The Sound of Your Firewall

The Sound of Your Firewall 06/17/2004 09:52 AM

What's that hissing sound?

What's that hissing sound? 08/10/2004 08:41 AM
Worried about oil running out? Don't look now, but natural gas is next on the endangered hydrocarbons list.

3D Sound by Creator of MP3

3D Sound by Creator of MP3 07/25/2004 09:05 AM

Safe and sound

Safe and sound 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
Jhames and Vince are home now all safe and sound. I counted all toes and fingers to make sure. Something...

sound familiar?

sound familiar? 06/05/2004 11:53 AM
I have been in torture photos, too. Gerry Adams speaks out. "News of the ill-treatment of prisoners in Iraq created no great surprise in republican Ireland. We have seen and heard it all before. Some of us have even survived that type of treatment. Suggestions that the brutality in Iraq was meted out by a few miscreants aren't even seriously entertained here. We have seen and heard all that before as well. But our experience is that, while individuals may bring a particular impact to their work, they do so within interrogative practices authorised by their superiors."

The New Sound Blaster: EAX 5.0

The New Sound Blaster: EAX 5.0 08/15/2004 06:16 AM

A Sound Body

A Sound Body 06/24/2005 03:02 PM
For those who prefer working out to music, there are plenty of rugged MP3 players made to withstand the toughest workout.

Any Sound Recorder v1.00

Any Sound Recorder v1.00 07/01/2004 06:53 PM
An audio software built in recording, editing and coverting sounds to MP3, WAV, OGG popular music format file. Typically it allows you to record sound from various input sources, edit audio files as you desired by cutting, copying, pasting, trimming and various DSP effects, save audio in popular WAV/MP3/OGG music formats. [Shareware $24.95 1.27 MB]

All Sound Recorder Pro v2.10

All Sound Recorder Pro v2.10 07/01/2004 10:18 PM
Records all sound from your computer's sound card into MP3, WMA, Wav, OGG files directly (such as convert ra, ram, rm to mp3), built-in a cool sound efferts editor. You can use it to grab any sound, including music, dialogs from movies, game sounds etc. from your local computer or the internet. Captured sounds can be saved in WAV,MP3,WMA or OGG format, using real-time conversion (without creating temporary files). [Shareware $29.95 2.64 MB]

A Sound of Thunder

A Sound of Thunder 09/04/2004 08:24 AM

SoX - Sound eXchange

SoX - Sound eXchange 08/15/2004 03:26 PM
SoX 12.17.5 released

You know ERP, that sound ALF makes......

You know ERP, that sound ALF makes...... 09/03/2004 06:20 PM
From the Edges of IT Hell, ERP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning) implement...

Words that sound dirty but aren't.

Words that sound dirty but aren't. 04/01/2005 01:52 AM
Words that sound dirty but aren't. I'm a big fan of the white-breasted nuthatch. You?

alarm will sound [Flickr]

alarm will sound [Flickr] 12/29/2004 01:10 AM

mathowie posted a photo:

stairs

MP3 creator returns with 3D sound

MP3 creator returns with 3D sound 07/23/2004 06:26 AM
Is that someone whispering in your ear? German team serves up tomorrow's super-realistic audio.

How to disable sound in Firefox?

How to disable sound in Firefox? 04/16/2005 05:02 AM
From the answerblog: How to disable embedded audio in Firefox using the Adblock extension.
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