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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"sound effects"”.
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A History of Theatre Sound Effects Devices to 1927
Sound effects increased in number and sophistication throughout all theatre periods; devices to produce them became more complicated which posed a need for greater control through central operation. This study traces the practices and developments in mechanical sound effects devices used in …
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Beyond sound effects: Designing sound for the American theatre in the 1970s
… the engagement between American theatre and sound reproduction technologies in the 1970s. Through an analysis of Abe Jacob’s sound design for Broadway and productions created by experimental theatre practitioners such as Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, and the Wooster Group, I explore how …
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Resident Benthic Fishes of Artificial Reefs in the Mississippi Sound: Effects of Habitat Relief and Subregion
… resident to artificial reefs in the Mississippi Sound, and to link this productivity to the artificial reef community through trophic relationships. This study examined differences in condition of benthic fishes resident to four artificial reefs of two profile types distributed across the …
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Computer Assisted Instructed Materials Dealing with Sound Effects in Poetry for use in the English Tv Classroom
<p>This project includes a survey of the types of Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) available for use in secondary English classrooms, 1llustrating that the majority of such programs deal with grammar, vocabulary, and reading objectives. Muscogee County, Georgia, high schools now have Apple …
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The Effect of Adding Relevant Music and Sound Effects to an Audio-Only Narration: A Three-Treatment Application of Mayer’s Coherence Principle
Sound effects and music can be used to complement instructional narrations in recorded media presentations. College students (n = 143) participated in a study examining the effects of music and sound effects on learning outcomes when compared to voice-only narration. Four groups of participants …
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Speech perception in virtual environments
… present a combination of background music, sound effects, ambient sounds and dialog simultaneously to create a rich auditory environment. Since interactive virtual environments allow users to roam freely among different sound producing objects, sound designers do not always have exact …
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Narratarium : real-time context-based sound and color extraction from text
… to generate context-specific colors and sound effects. It accomplishes this by employing a variety of machine learning approaches, including commonsense reasoning and natural language processing. It can be highly customized to prioritize different performance metrics, most importantly …
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An analytical and comparative study of Francisco Tarrega's two volumes of guitar studies : volume one : thirty elementary level studies and volume two : twenty-five intermediate and advanced level studies
… right- and lefthand finger movements, and sound quality are first discussed in this study. Then, the fiftyfive guitar studies are discussed and analyzed in groups according to their different technical purposes, such as scale playing, arpeggio playing, blocked chords, barré technique, slur …
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Immersed in Horror: A Study of the Historical and Contemporary Influences of Poe's Shadows
… shows, and shadow plays, while also using sound effects and narration that combined elements of theatrical tradition and ghost shows. By studying the history of Poe's Shadows, as well as the reception of the installation, one can see how the theatre's evolving relationship with horror is …
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A Lighting Design Process for The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes
… a world reminiscent of 19th century London. The sound design created sound effects live per the tradition of the period, while supporting these with modern amplification and playback of edited tracks. The lighting design was able to heighten the sense of theatricality and compliment the other …
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The Representation of Disability in the Music of Alfred Hitchcock Films
… these characters through the editing process, sound effects, and music. This dissertation will analyze the ways music represents various disabilities in three Hitchcock films. Vertigo (1958) addresses obsession and phobia as its main themes, whereas Psycho (1960) investigates obsession and …
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In plane sight: theories of film spectatorship and animation
… realism, character engagement, and the impact of sound effects and music––generally work to analyze audiences’ experience of animation. However, those overarching theories do require revision to account for two further issues that arise due to particularities in animation’s construction and …
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Design and Implementation of an Interactive Animatronic System for Guest Response Analysis
… head, moving wings, tail, jaw, blinking eyes and sound effects. Human identification, using a depth camera (Carmine from PrimeSense), an open-source middleware (NITE from OpenNI), Java-based Processing and an Arduino microcontroller, has been implemented into the system in order to track a guest …
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The "New" sounds of the slap-of-the-stick : Termite Terrace (1937-1943) and the slapstick tradition
… live-action comedy to American animation. Since sound plays a major role inside the lazzi, the analysis focuses on the sound practices and technologies that have been used across media to produce comic effects. In addition, this thesis claims that the theatrical animated cartoons -Looney Tunes …
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Children's comprehension of video effects : understanding meaning, mood & message
Children's comprehension of special effects was examined in a series of digital video workshops designed for 9-14 year olds. Children assessed illusions in film, TV and video. They made observations about a mood or message conveyed through these magical "tricks" and effects, and generated …
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Shadow of dew drops for piano trio
… Chinese poetry. Exploring fresh and lively sound effects to present this style become the goal of the piece. By using pizzicato followed by a glissando, fine harmonics of violin and cello, ornamentations and high repeated notes on piano, etc. to describe a lively picture of a little pond, …
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Gumiho: how I tried to give up eating human livers and love someone: an opera in two acts
… life of the characters. In addition, particular sound effects and techniques are performed by either instruments or singers to foreshadow future happenings, including tragic events
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Creating a sound world for Dracula (Brorwning, 1931).
Creating a Sound World for Dracula (Browning, 1931) The first use of recorded sound in a feature film was in Don Juan (Crosland 1926). From 1933 onwards, rich film scoring and Foley effects were common in many films. In this context, Dracula (Browning 1931)1 belongs to the transitional period …
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