Chapter 1: What is Sound?
Links
Sound Generation by Musical Instruments
- Sound Production of various instruments—from music acoustics website at University of New South Wales
- Voice videos—from National Center for Voice and Speech
- Musical instrument acoustics—from Hyperphysics website at Georgia State University
Resonance
- Resonance—from Hyperphysics website at Georgia State University
- Breaking glass with voice (video from YouTube)—from Science Channel
- Breaking glass with voice (video from YouTube)—from Mythbusters TV show
The Medium
- Helium speech—from music acoustics website at University of New South Wales
- LBJ and the Helium-filled Astronaut—Astronaut Scott Carpenter speaks to President Johnson from a helium-atmosphere decompression chamber.
Reception: the better to hear you with
- Journey into the World of Hearing—multimedia presentation of the anatomy of the ear
- Musical Language—radio show from Radiolab concerning music and psychology
- Music perception and cognition—includes handouts as PDFs from MIT OpenCourseWare
- Neural coding and perception of sound—includes handouts as PDFs from MIT OpenCourseWare