Subject: Re: Multi-speaker ...
From: David Mooney (moko@city-net.com)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2001 - 16:42:34 EST
KEVIN AUSTIN wrote:
> It may (in time) become 'second nature' to be able to determine whether
> and 'how' a certain quality / type of sound will distribute / project. An
> educated ear (whether genetic or trained) is probably required to tease
> out the subtleties of this discipline. For those of us who are mere
> mortals, not blessed with this as a genetic feature, I recommend study
> <sigh! -- such an academic [yikes!]>, and a fine place to start is Albert
> Bregman's Auditory Scene Analysis, MIT Press (1990) >> AND >> be sure to
> get the excellent CD's that complement the book.
>
Also Perry Cook's book and accompanying CD: Music, Cognition, and Computerized
Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics, MIT Press, 1999. Bregman is cited
frequently. Essays by Mathews, R. Shepard, John Pierce and others. This was
written for an intro to psychoacoustics course at CCRMA.
-- David Mooney dmooney@city-net.com http://www.city-net.com/~moko/"Opaque melodies that would bug most people" (Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet)
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