NOW PLAYING: CitySounds.fm - The music of cities Funky Soul Playlist Upload FireMorph Loading... Working... ► Play all Funky Soul Playlist FireMorph84 videos2,595,618 viewsLast updated on Apr 14, 2016 Play all Sign in to YouTube Sign in History Sign in to add this to Watch Later Add to Loading playlists... Creating A Sense Of Depth In Your Mix With reverb, EQ, delay and more at your disposal, enhancing the sense of front‑to‑back space in your mix can be a challenging affair. We take you through some tips that will give your mix a depth charge! Paul White Rolling off some of the top and bass end with a high-cut and low‑cut filter respectively can help to make sounds seem more distant. In real life we hear sound in three dimensions, and although a stereo production obviously places all the sound sources in front of the listener on a left‑right soundstage, it can often seem harder to achieve a good sense of front‑to‑back depth when you're working with two speakers. EQ For Distance If you want to place something at the back of the mix, it not only needs to be quieter than the up‑front sounds: it also needs to have less top end, to emulate the way air absorbs high frequencies. Use The Right Reverbs Echo‑cho‑cho... Masters Of Modulation Creating Contrast Up‑front Vocals Delay For Depth By Arrangement Automated EQ Tweak In Context! Listen Up
National Energy Mix National Energy Mix (Percentages of Total Energy Consumption) This graphic shows a breakdown of the percent of total energy used per country from 1990 to 2009. Energy consumption is divided into three categories; alternative and nuclear energy (includes: hydropower and nuclear, geothermal, and solar power, among others), fossil fuel energy (includes: coal, oil, petroleum, and natural gas products), and biomass and waste energy (includes: solid biomass, liquid biomass, industrial waste, and municipal waste). Data is approximate and takes into account energy that is exported to other countries. Sources: World Bank. World Bank. World Bank. Links: Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption: click here for more information Alternative and Nuclear Energy: click here for more information Combustible Renewables and Waste: click here for more information
Shepard tone Spectrum view of ascending Shepard tones (linear frequency scale) Construction[edit] Figure 1: Shepard tones forming a Shepard scale, illustrated in a sequencer Each square in the figure indicates a tone, any set of squares in vertical alignment together making one Shepard tone. The color of each square indicates the loudness of the note, with purple being the quietest and green the loudest. Overlapping notes that play at the same time are exactly one octave apart, and each scale fades in and fades out so that hearing the beginning or end of any given scale is impossible. The acoustical illusion can be constructed by creating a series of overlapping ascending or descending scales. The scale as described, with discrete steps between each tone, is known as the discrete Shepard scale. Jean-Claude Risset subsequently created a version of the scale where the tones glide continuously, and it is appropriately called the continuous Risset scale or Shepard–Risset glissando. Examples[edit]
These are the sounds left behind when you compress a song to MP3 If you're listening to music right now, you can probably hear the vocalist's slight pitch-shifts, or hiss of a drummer's hi-hats, or the padded thump of a synth bed. But do you ever think about what you're not hearing? If you listen to MP3s, your music library lost some of its sonic weight during the audio compression process, but it's likely you'd never realize anything was missing. Over the past two decades, the MP3 has managed to become the default audio file format while still reducing the quality of sound files, however subtly. MP3 compression relies on "auditory masking" But even if the human ear can't recognize that certain sounds are missing from a Suzanne Vega hit, they are. You can listen to an obvious effect of MP3 compression below using a spectrum of noise frequencies known as white, pink, and brown noise. And here they are compressed to the lowest MP3 bit rate of 8kbps:
Motherboard TV: Free the Network You’re on the Internet. What does that mean? Most likely, it means one of a handful of telecommunications providers is middlemanning your information from Point A to Point B. Fire off an email or a tweet, broadcast a livestream or upload video to YouTube, and you’re relying on vast networks of fiber optic cables deep underground and undersea, working with satellites high above, to move your data around the world, and to bring the world to your fingertips. It’s an infrastructure largely out of sight and mind. AT&T, Level 3, Hurricane Electric, Tata Indicom – to most these are simply invisible magicians performing the act of getting one online and kicking. Wilder is the 21-year-old co-founder of the Free Network Foundation. It all sounded lofty and arcane and way, way over our heads. We even broke a story that popped off on the Internet in the immediate wake of the New York Police Department’s Nov. 17 raid on Zuccotti Park.
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Complete Palestrina Edition • Now Online! NTIL RECENTLY, I did not realize the complete works of GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA (d. 1594) are available online. The edition is by Monsignor Francis Xavier Haberl (d. 1910), a student of Proske, and what he produced is nothing short of miraculous. Moreover, his modal sensitivity is not what we might expect from a 19th-century musician. 1 Some might not understand how to read the clefs used by Haberl—but all you have to do is click here. Credit for these marvelous scores belongs to several groups, especially the IMSLP website. But Palestrina wrote more than just Mass settings! Click here to download every piece Palestrina ever composed. THE TREASURES are beyond belief. By the way, the IMSLP website contains numerous authentic part books: We need to ask Nancho Alvarez, the indisputable master of Renaissance scores, to do for Palestrina what he’s done for Victoria, Guerrero, and Morales.
The 10 Best Movies Influenced by Kierkegaardian Philosophy Soren Kierkegaard was an interesting man. A Danish philosopher, he is often considered the first existentialist (though yes, existentialism is much older than Kierkegaard), as well as a theologian and social critic. His works deal with faith, ethical life, repetition, choice, despair, and everything else related to living as an individual. Many of his writings are responses to Hegel, and all of them spurred controversy. Kierkegaard was born into a wealthy family in Copenhagen and was well educated. His father died at a young age, and Kierkegaard himself was convinced that he would die before he was to turn 33, thanks to a curse. It is worth noting that he broke off the engagement, causing his own depression and melancholy. He collapsed in the street at the age of 42 and, after spending a month in the hospital during which he refused communion, died in his hospital bed. What is to follow is a list of 10 great Kierkegaardian films. 1. 2. How can he trust his faith? 3. 4. 5. Pages: 1 2
Download 30 Gigabytes-Worth Of Rare Cassettes From The '80s There is no better way to start the week than digging into vast quantities of rare underground releases. This recently unearthed batch from archive.org hails from the days when audio cassettes were the standard method of music sharing, rather than collectable items. The selection includes “tape experimentation, industrial, avant-garde, indy, rock, DIY, subvertainment and auto-hypnotic materials,” although its curator cautions that “most of what you are about to hear is rather difficult to file.” Download the full 30 GB package via here, and check out these 10 cassette labels keeping tapes alive in Germany today. (Image via tapeline)
8 TV Commercials that were Better than any TV Show in 2015 - Seton Magazine We Western viewers tend to skip past commercials. Sometimes that’s a mistake. Below are eight parent/child-themed commercials that were released this year. And they have me wondering whether we should skip through television shows to get to the ads. Enjoy. Did you see my 2014 10 Videos To Warm Your Heart this Christmas? Christmas leaves some people forgotten. Meet Murilo. Babies and Dads. Advertisement Daddies and Truth. Birthdays. The Imagination Awakens. The Future of Driving? Until the Future. Which of these is your favorite?