Archives for the 'Acoustics' Category
The Freesound Project
Published on 19 Dec 2007 at 3:16 am.
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Filed under Acoustics, Internet, Research, Solutions.
Today Roger Pink pointed me to The Freesound Project, which is an online database of sounds. These sounds are free to be used by anyone in accordance with the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project makes these sounds accessible by keyword search.
Recently, the Music Technology Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona received […]
Lego Central Drive Animation
Published on 22 Apr 2007 at 11:00 pm.
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Filed under Acoustics, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Lego, NXT, Research, Robotics, Software.
I am slowly constructing my first intelligent instrument. It will be an instrument that learns the acoustic radiation pattern emitted by a speaker. It is not a perfect acoustic experiment—nor is it meant to be. Uncertainties and errors abound, especially since I am using the Lego NXT Mindstorms system to construct the instrument.
The design is […]
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Sonofusion
Published on 17 Mar 2007 at 1:13 am.
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Filed under Acoustics, Inventions, Physics, Research.
I am the chair of our physics department’s weekly colloquium, and this week our guest speaker was Dr. Richard T. Lahey Jr., the Edward Hood Jr. Professor of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Lahey spoke to us about his recent successes in sonofusion. In short, sonofusion is the act of achieving nuclear fusion by […]
Reactable
Published on 11 Feb 2007 at 2:48 am.
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Filed under Acoustics, Inventions, Music.
I stumbled across a demo for the Reactable on YouTube. The reactable is a multi-user eletro-acoustic instrument that has a tangible tabetop interface developed by “Interactive Sonic Systems” team is working in the Music Technology Group at the Univeristat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona Spain.
Objects of varying shapes are placed on a translucent table. A videocamera […]
