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Playing the World's 'longest echo'

My experience of playing the saxophone in the world record oil tank

Published July 8, 2014
Categorized as music Tagged guinness, inchindown, Inchindown Oil Tanks, longest echo, oil tanks, reverberation, reverberation time, sax, saxophone, world record

Can computers compose?

Can computers compose music that is worth listening to?

Published May 14, 2014
Categorized as music Tagged bbc radio 4, computer algorithm, computer composition, computer creativity, computer program, documentary, iamus, modern classical music, ragtime music, turing test

The myth of the stradviarius

Are stradviarius violins the best money can buy?

Published April 27, 2014
Categorized as music Tagged bbc, Claudia Fritz, italian, myth, radio, strad, stradivari, stradivarius, Stradivarius violins, violin

I am sitting in a room

A version of Alvin Lucier’s most famous work “I am Sitting in a Room” performed using the world’s ‘longest echo’ (reverberation time).

Published April 21, 2014
Categorized as music Tagged alvin lucier, anechoic chamber, convolution, experimental music, i am sitting in a room, i'm sitting in a room, impulse response, inchindown

Why does music sound better with reverb?

What might be behind our preference of hearing music with reverberation?

Published January 10, 2014
Categorized as music Tagged classical music, concert hall, Harmonicats, Jerry Murad, music producer, reverb, reverberation, stonehenge

Pitch shifting to 432 Hz doesn't improve music

Preference verses tuning frequency graph
Preference verses tuning frequency

Results from an experiment to see if music sounds better with instruments tuned to 432 Hz.

Published December 13, 2013
Categorized as music Tagged 432 vs 440 Hz, 432Hz, 440Hz, Joseph Goebbels, pitch, skeptic, tuning

Slower music has higher sound quality

An analysis of pop and rock music shows that slower music has higher sound quality

Published November 27, 2013
Categorized as music, Uncategorized Tagged alex wilson, audio production, bpm, echo nest, guardian, pop music, sound quality, tempo, university of salford

The unmusical, musical road

How the second musical road in Lancaster, California is out of tune, just like the first one.

Published November 15, 2013
Categorized as music Tagged california, lancaster, musical road, physics, tuning, william tell overture

Do you like your music flat?

Does music with a lower tuning frequency sound better?

Published July 25, 2013
Categorized as music Tagged 440Hz, claude debussey, debussy, hugi fastl, piano, pitch, psychoacoustics, sadie, tuning, youtube

How weather affects sound at Glastonbury

How weather affects the sound at festivals like Glastonbury

Published June 29, 2013
Categorized as annoyance, music, Noise, Uncategorized, weather Tagged festival, glastonbury, sound

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20 May

Interested in studying for a research degree with me @SalfordAcoustic ? We're running a webinar next wed lunchtime https://hub.salford.ac.uk/sirc-acoustics/2022/05/15/postgraduate-opportunities-acoustics-research-centre-the-university-of-salford/ looking at topics, funding, how to apply etc.

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18 May

The registration for the 1st Clarity Prediction Challenge (CPC1) workshop is open. Improving models of speech intelligibility for hearing loss and aids. Virtual via Zoom https://claritychallenge.github.io/clarity2022-workshop/

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13 May

I'll be joined by author @taniahershman for the session as well. Tania did a fab story for the @PodInventive Episode 1 @ShroukELA https://hub.salford.ac.uk/inventivepodcast/2021/06/14/inventive-podcast-episode-one/ or your usual podcast app

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