Acoustic Analysis Quotes

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

A long time ago I started talking into a balloon so I could feel myself talking, to practice judging volume, and compare it to other musicians.

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.