#sound waves

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NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

In this sonification of Perseus. the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted outward from the center. (source)

[mindblowingscience]

Languages are a key factor in human societies. They connect people, serve as a vehicle to pass on knowledge and ideas, but they also distinguish between different groups of people. Languages can therefore tell us a lot about the societies that use them. As languages are constantly changing, it is important to know the factors that play a role in this. Scientists can then reconstruct past processes on the basis of languages. In a study published today (Dec. 5) in the online journal PNAS Nexus, Kiel linguist Dr. Søren Wichmann, together with colleagues from China, demonstrates that average ambient temperatures influence the loudness of certain speech sounds. "Generally speaking, languages in warmer regions are louder than those in colder regions," says Dr. Wichmann. The basic idea behind the study is that we are surrounded by air when we speak and listen. Spoken words are transmitted through the air as sound waves. The physical properties of air therefore influence how easy it is to produce and hear speech. "On the one hand, the dryness of cold air poses a challenge to the production of voiced sounds, which require vibration of the vocal cords. On the other hand, warm air tends to limit unvoiced sounds by absorbing their high-frequency energy," explains Dr. Wichmann. These factors could favor a higher volume of certain speech sounds in warmer climates, known as sonority in scientific terms.

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Water droplets vibrated by sound sine wave frequencies 100-200Hz.

Cymatics is the art and science of making sound visible.

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“Soundwave superior”

[beautifulmisfitt]

Peace of mind. 🌊

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📍Cancun, Mexico

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IN THROES OF INCREASING WONDER. (inprnt)

click for better resolution, please do not repost (rbs are v good!), more details in the image description (written by the lovely martyrbat) 🎻🩸

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Science Saturday

Here are some wood engravings and a chromolithograph from a new addition to our Historical Curriculum Collection, two titles bound in one volume: A Handbook of Natural Philosophy and Elements of Sound, Light, and Heat, both by American educators William James Rolfe (1827-1910) and Joseph Anthony Gillet (1837-1908), published in 1868 as part of the 6-volume Cambridge Course of Physics series by Boston educational publisher Woolworth, Ainsworth, & Co. with the second title also published in New York by A. S. Barnes & Co.

The chromolithograph of the spectrograph was printed by the Boston German-American lithographer Augustus Meisel (1824-1885). The wood engravings (probably metal plates produced from the original blocks) depict, from the top, a hydraulic press, a vacuum jar, a stationary steam engine, and a steam locomotive. The last image depicts the interaction of waves:

It represents the forms produced by the intersection of direct and reflected water-waves in a vessel. The point of disturbance is marked by the smallest circle in the figure, and is midway between the centre and the circumference. . . . In like manner a great variety of sound-waves may exist together in the air. . . . In this way thousands of waves may be transmitted through the air at the same time without losing their individual character. The same case holds good here as in the case of water-waves; namely, that every particle of air is affected by a motion which is the algebraic sum of all the single motions imparted to it.

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Project : Disrupt

Week : 1st Nov - 3rd Nov

I decided to continue looking at sound waves in music, and make a visual representation of them.

I used Metallica’s ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ and generated the sound waves for the song. I took inspiration from the album’s cover art for my colour palette.

To develop this concept into disrupt, I want to take apart this piece to create both a new image and a new sound, by cutting and rearranging my painting of the sound waves.

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Wire Sound Wave.

I started this yesterday afternoon and finished it this morning. I had the idea to use the audio of my grandad breathing to make this 3d wire sound wave. I found the the shape of the waves really interesting.I hope to continue experimenting with shape through sounds and audios of inhalation and exhalation.

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Dolores and Camilo

A DTIYS Challenge I joined back in February 2022.

[harvestheart]

It had to be. Like a huge metrodome.