Acoustics and Psychoacoustics - Paperback

Acoustics and Psychoacoustics - Paperback

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Acoustics and Psychoacoustics - Paperback

Acoustics and Psychoacoustics - Paperback

$172.35
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by David M. Howard (Author), Jamie Angus (Author)

Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, Fifth Edition provides tools to understand how music sounds and behaves in different spaces, and how sounds are perceived by performers and listeners. This new edition reflects new psychoacoustic information related to timbre and temporal perception, including an updated discussion of vocal fold vibration principles, samples of recent acoustic treatments, and a description of variable acoustics in spaces, as well as coverage of the environment's effect on production listening, sonification, and other topics. An accompanying website features audio clips, tutorial sheets, and trainings.

Author Biography

David M. Howard is the Founding Head of a new Department of Electronics at Royal Holloway, University of London. David's research interests include the analysis and synthesis of singing, speech, and music, the use of computers and apps for real-time singing training and tuning in a cappella singing. David has been involved in forensic audio casework and appears regularly on radio and TV, including as a presenter for Voice and Castrato for BBC4-TV.

Jamie A.S. Angus is Professor of Audio Technology in the School of Computing, Science, and Engineering at the University of Salford. She was one of the originators of the UK's first university-level music technology course at the University of York in 1986. She both teaches and researches in room and speech acoustics, diffuser design, GPGPU in acoustic simulation, and audio signal processing and coding. She invented the modulated and absorption diffuser structures and was awarded an AES Fellowship Prize and the IOA Peter Barnett Memorial Prize in 2004.

Number of Pages: 510
Dimensions: 1.1 x 9.2 x 7.5 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: June 12, 2017

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