The rebuttal you link to on xiph.org ignores research that illustrates that humans can in fact perceive frequencies far beyond the classical limit of ~20 kHz. Higher frequencies present essential localization cues. Higher sample rates, like 192 kHz., allow for the reproduction of higher frequencies (assuming playback equipment that can actually reproduce the higher frequencies) leading to recordings which are far more realistic than what is possible with the 44.1 kHz sampling rate.
The difference between 24-bit and 16-bit amplitude resolution is like night and day. As someone that has recorded much contemporary and classical concert music, I can certainly attest to the huge difference between the two bit rates. If you listen to music with a wide dynamic range, then the comparison between the two bit rates is highly noticeable. Quiet sounds can be masked by quantization noise. You want the highest bit rate possible.
Check out The Black Hole in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It's a salvage company with surplus equipment from the Los Alamos National Labs. The place is a huge warehouse packed to the ceiling with old equipment.
You can find lots of scientific equipment, computers, and generally obscure technological devices such as surplus atomic bomb detonating cables for $2.
The only time I ever received a rebate check was when I sent it via certified mail. All other rebates I've sent through standard mail were conveniently "lost" in the mail.
We're essentially talking about a phase vocoder here. Nothing new or special. This technique has been used in electro-acoustic music for quite some time now and was first developed in 1966 at Bell Labs.
The phase vocoder basically takes a spectral analysis of a signal, using the FFT, and theoretically performs a sample-by-sample clone in the spectral domain. This output is then simply resynthesized using the inverse FFT. The artifacts present in phase vocoded signals can be minimized by tweaking its various parameters, FFT size, frame size, window type, and window overlap.
Must be a quiet day today to report on such an old technique.
Thanks for your civil discussion. Your obvious lack of self confidence shines through with your rude comments.
Take a look at his Washington Post article.
You'll see that oil is the biggest factor in this push for war. The fact that oil prices will drop is not the focus. It is that US companies will have unfettered access to the second largest oil reserves in the world, which will be conveniently administered by the US.
Thanks for the article, but Jenin is not the only time the IDF has killed Palestinians. Try a google search and you'll find that you simply don't know what your talking about.
While I concede that Palestine has never been officially a sovereign state, the fact remains that the Palestinian people have lived for centuries in what is now modern Israel. In fact if you simply would take the time to read about the history of the conflict you will see that the Palestinian people have in fact suffered mass injustices at the hands of the Israelis including the obvious expulsion from their lands. While I am in no way condoning suicide bombers or any other acts of violence, I am simply stating that your view that Israel is somehow the good guy in this conflict is vastly distorted.
So not to add to the troll, but instead of trying to trump anothers comments with your obviously ignorant views, you should perhaps spend a little time researching your views so that they may seem a little more than an idiot's rant.
Are you suggesting that Mr. Hussein would use nuclear arms, would set such a high threshold on their use? After what he did to Iran or to the Kurds?
Do you really think that the US is after Hussein because of his past or because he has any "weapons of mass destruction"? The US, as you may know, actually aided Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War. You have to step back from the war propaganda that's currently abound in the US media. The current administration wants this war simply because of oil. The fact of whether Iraq has any has weapons what so ever is really irrelevant to the administration's plans.
Your attack on Israel is equally misguided -- Israel has shown incredible restaint in its own defense, something which cannot be claimed about the murder-suicide bombers.
Once again you need to remember that the pro-Israel media in the US distorts the facts. The IDF has killed roughly 3 times as many Palestinians, 85% of which are civilians, than Israelis killed by suicide bombers. As well the IDF has bombed numerous hospitals, schools, and civilian homes. If that's what you call restrained then...
The fact of the matter is that Israel is occupying a sovereign state and her people. Just place yourself in the Palestinian's shoes for a second. An outside force has occupied your country, holding your people hostage, for over thirty years. You grow up seeing your friends and family killed, ridiculed, and oppressed. If you were in this situation then what would you do?
Maybe you should you look into some international media sources to get a more balanced view.
Perhaps you've forgotten that the US has used nuclear weapons in warfare (remember WWII?). Or that the US, as recently as the Gulf War, has deployed Depleted Uranium weapons (a simple google search will enlighten you).
Stop thinking that the US is some holier than though state.
Israel as well is no human rights champion. Just look at the atrocities that are going on in occupied Palestine.
As a Dartmouth alum, specifically of the Masters Electro-Acoustic Music Program, I can wholeheartedly say that Dartmouth has traditionally led the pack in technology and computing. Since the 1960's Dartmouth has pushed computing and technology to its students. Basic was developed there by a former president of the college.
The Electro-Acoustic Program merges CS, EE, and music composition into a program that is perhaps the best of its kind in the world.
check out the ARGO project. They had an autonomous car running linux in June 1998.
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actually I don't think Cage ever performed his piece 4'33" himself. The piece was premiered in 1952 by David Tudor not in the seventies and is in no way "a song."
Actually 4'33" is "for any instrument or combination of intruments." The work is in three movements (originally 33", 2'40", and 1'20"):
I tacet
II tacet
III tacet
I found the Wired article to be nothing more than propaganda for Apple and Digidesign and This so called "lowercase music" has been around for decades. Listen to Xenakis' PH Concrète (1958) or even Feldman's later works.
John Cage, the minimalist modern classical composer
John Cage was not a minimalist composer (some minimalists: Lamont Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass). The term Minimalism is attributed to music which uses simple ideas often repeating them with rythmic variation to form hypnotic, slow moving textures.
"The Mac is the favored platform,"
As an electro-acoustic composer, I myself don't use either a Mac or Digi tools and I know many in the community who also do not. While it is true that Apple and Digi do still seem to have dominance in this market, many electro-acoustic music composers and researchers are moving to linux and home-brewed applications.
Actually 4'33" is "for any instrument or combination of intruments." The work is in three movements (originally 33", 2'40", and 1'20") :
I tacet
II tacet
III tacet
I found the Wired article to be nothing more than propaganda for Apple and Digidesign and This so called "lowercase music" has been around for decades. Listen to Xenakis' PH Concrète (1958) or even Feldman's later works.
John Cage, the minimalist modern classical composer
John Cage was not a minimalist composer (some minimalists: Lamont Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass). The term Minimalism is attributed to music which uses simple ideas often repeating them with rythmic variation to form hypnotic, slow moving textures.
"The Mac is the favored platform,"
As an electro-acoustic composer, I myself don't use either a Mac or Digi tools and I know many in the community who also do not. While it is true that Apple and Digi do still seem to have dominance in this market, many electro-acoustic music composers and researchers are moving to linux and home-brewed applications.
I was working late one night, about 3 AM, in the analog studio at CSF. The studio was called the Fridge Room because it was once used as a cooler of sorts and previous to that as a morgue. You see, CSF had inherited WWII barracks that had been used primarily as a military hospital.
That evening I was editing on the 1" 16 track Tascam machine and carefully listening to make sure my edits were transparent. All of a sudden a cloud-like figure emerged through the heavy door to the Fridge Room, turned to me then immediately went back out. The figure was featureless, it was more like a gas-like cloud of light.
This was the ghost of the nurse everyone at CSF had spoken of. When the barracks were used during WWII a nurse was supposedly killed and decapitated by a severely disturbed patient. Many people have seen her wandering the halls, but I always thought it was some sort of hoax. Apparently not.
I packed up my reels, normalized everything, and took off as quickly as I could.
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The rebuttal you link to on xiph.org ignores research that illustrates that humans can in fact perceive frequencies far beyond the classical limit of ~20 kHz. Higher frequencies present essential localization cues. Higher sample rates, like 192 kHz., allow for the reproduction of higher frequencies (assuming playback equipment that can actually reproduce the higher frequencies) leading to recordings which are far more realistic than what is possible with the 44.1 kHz sampling rate.
The difference between 24-bit and 16-bit amplitude resolution is like night and day. As someone that has recorded much contemporary and classical concert music, I can certainly attest to the huge difference between the two bit rates. If you listen to music with a wide dynamic range, then the comparison between the two bit rates is highly noticeable. Quiet sounds can be masked by quantization noise. You want the highest bit rate possible.
You can find lots of scientific equipment, computers, and generally obscure technological devices such as surplus atomic bomb detonating cables for $2.
The only time I ever received a rebate check was when I sent it via certified mail. All other rebates I've sent through standard mail were conveniently "lost" in the mail.
The phase vocoder basically takes a spectral analysis of a signal, using the FFT, and theoretically performs a sample-by-sample clone in the spectral domain. This output is then simply resynthesized using the inverse FFT. The artifacts present in phase vocoded signals can be minimized by tweaking its various parameters, FFT size, frame size, window type, and window overlap.
Must be a quiet day today to report on such an old technique.
Take a look at his Washington Post article. You'll see that oil is the biggest factor in this push for war. The fact that oil prices will drop is not the focus. It is that US companies will have unfettered access to the second largest oil reserves in the world, which will be conveniently administered by the US.
Thanks for the article, but Jenin is not the only time the IDF has killed Palestinians. Try a google search and you'll find that you simply don't know what your talking about.
While I concede that Palestine has never been officially a sovereign state, the fact remains that the Palestinian people have lived for centuries in what is now modern Israel. In fact if you simply would take the time to read about the history of the conflict you will see that the Palestinian people have in fact suffered mass injustices at the hands of the Israelis including the obvious expulsion from their lands. While I am in no way condoning suicide bombers or any other acts of violence, I am simply stating that your view that Israel is somehow the good guy in this conflict is vastly distorted.
So not to add to the troll, but instead of trying to trump anothers comments with your obviously ignorant views, you should perhaps spend a little time researching your views so that they may seem a little more than an idiot's rant.
Do you really think that the US is after Hussein because of his past or because he has any "weapons of mass destruction"? The US, as you may know, actually aided Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War. You have to step back from the war propaganda that's currently abound in the US media. The current administration wants this war simply because of oil. The fact of whether Iraq has any has weapons what so ever is really irrelevant to the administration's plans.
Your attack on Israel is equally misguided -- Israel has shown incredible restaint in its own defense, something which cannot be claimed about the murder-suicide bombers.
Once again you need to remember that the pro-Israel media in the US distorts the facts. The IDF has killed roughly 3 times as many Palestinians, 85% of which are civilians, than Israelis killed by suicide bombers. As well the IDF has bombed numerous hospitals, schools, and civilian homes. If that's what you call restrained then...
The fact of the matter is that Israel is occupying a sovereign state and her people. Just place yourself in the Palestinian's shoes for a second. An outside force has occupied your country, holding your people hostage, for over thirty years. You grow up seeing your friends and family killed, ridiculed, and oppressed. If you were in this situation then what would you do?
Maybe you should you look into some international media sources to get a more balanced view.
Stop thinking that the US is some holier than though state.
Israel as well is no human rights champion. Just look at the atrocities that are going on in occupied Palestine.
The Electro-Acoustic Program merges CS, EE, and music composition into a program that is perhaps the best of its kind in the world.
check out the ARGO project.
They had an autonomous car running linux in June 1998.
actually I don't think Cage ever performed his piece 4'33" himself. The piece was premiered in 1952 by David Tudor not in the seventies and is in no way "a song."
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Actually 4'33" is "for any instrument or combination of intruments." The work is in three movements (originally 33", 2'40", and 1'20")
I tacet
II tacet
III tacet
I found the Wired article to be nothing more than propaganda for Apple and Digidesign and This so called "lowercase music" has been around for decades. Listen to Xenakis' PH Concrète (1958) or even Feldman's later works.
John Cage, the minimalist modern classical composer
John Cage was not a minimalist composer (some minimalists: Lamont Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass). The term Minimalism is attributed to music which uses simple ideas often repeating them with rythmic variation to form hypnotic, slow moving textures.
"The Mac is the favored platform,"
As an electro-acoustic composer, I myself don't use either a Mac or Digi tools and I know many in the community who also do not. While it is true that Apple and Digi do still seem to have dominance in this market, many electro-acoustic music composers and researchers are moving to linux and home-brewed applications.
Actually 4'33" is "for any instrument or combination of intruments." The work is in three movements (originally 33", 2'40", and 1'20") : I tacet II tacet III tacet I found the Wired article to be nothing more than propaganda for Apple and Digidesign and This so called "lowercase music" has been around for decades. Listen to Xenakis' PH Concrète (1958) or even Feldman's later works. John Cage, the minimalist modern classical composer John Cage was not a minimalist composer (some minimalists: Lamont Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass). The term Minimalism is attributed to music which uses simple ideas often repeating them with rythmic variation to form hypnotic, slow moving textures. "The Mac is the favored platform," As an electro-acoustic composer, I myself don't use either a Mac or Digi tools and I know many in the community who also do not. While it is true that Apple and Digi do still seem to have dominance in this market, many electro-acoustic music composers and researchers are moving to linux and home-brewed applications.
I was working late one night, about 3 AM, in the analog studio at CSF. The studio was called the Fridge Room because it was once used as a cooler of sorts and previous to that as a morgue. You see, CSF had inherited WWII barracks that had been used primarily as a military hospital.
That evening I was editing on the 1" 16 track Tascam machine and carefully listening to make sure my edits were transparent. All of a sudden a cloud-like figure emerged through the heavy door to the Fridge Room, turned to me then immediately went back out. The figure was featureless, it was more like a gas-like cloud of light.
This was the ghost of the nurse everyone at CSF had spoken of. When the barracks were used during WWII a nurse was supposedly killed and decapitated by a severely disturbed patient. Many people have seen her wandering the halls, but I always thought it was some sort of hoax. Apparently not.
I packed up my reels, normalized everything, and took off as quickly as I could.