Is it live or is it Memorex?
Lecture by Maureen Mellody

Saturday Morning Physics

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Is It Live or Is It Memorex? 00:00:00
Outline 00:01:33
What Is Sound? 00:02:30
What Is Sound? 00:04:04
00:04:28
Properties of Sound 00:06:10
The Building Blocks of Sound 00:08:23
Different Patterns and Frequency Combinations 00:10:04
What Turns Sound into Music? 00:12:54
Visualizing Sound 00:13:18
Visualizing Sound 00:14:20
Sound Filters 00:15:11
00:18:21
Visualizing Sound Production 00:21:46
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Sound Production Models 00:25:05
Sound Synthesis I 00:25:35
Sound Synthesis II 00:27:50
Sound Synthesis III 00:29:47
Sound Synthesis IV 00:32:07
Modeling the Output: An Aria 00:32:38
Modeling the Output: A Scale 00:34:54
Signal/Physical Model Hybrid 00:35:34
Crossing Singers 00:37:03
Crossing Singers 00:38:31
Crossing Singers 00:38:45
Crossing Singers 00:39:19
Crossing Pitches 00:39:53
Crossing Pitches 00:40:38
Crossing Pitches 00:40:58
Crossing Pitches 00:41:17
Vocal Synthesis 00:43:01
How Do We Localize Sound? 00:43:52
What if those cues don t work? 00:44:47
What if those cues don t work? 00:45:10
00:46:07
00:47:02
00:47:44
MP3 Technology 00:49:22
How the Ear Hears 00:50:29
How the Ear Hears II 00:51:32
Auditory Masking 00:52:15
How the Ear Hears II 00:52:25
Auditory Masking 00:52:39
MP3 Technology 00:53:37
Cheating in MP3: Masking 00:55:12
Take-Home Message 00:55:42