A Blog on the Science of Music and Speech
Here’s a recording of a woman reciting a line from the Catalan poem La Vaca Cega:
Suppose that you wanted to take the recording and change the quality of the voice — change it into a male-sounding voice, for instance. How would you go about it? I did this recently for an online audio processing course I … Read the rest
In What Makes a Musical Sound Part 2, I talked about the spectrum, which shows what frequencies are present in a sound. In this explicative post, I’ll go into more detail about how we obtain the spectrum, and about what it means when we say a sound is made up of different frequencies.
But first – what does … Read the rest
Here’s a violin playing the note G (with frequency 784 Hz), followed by a flute playing the same note:
In part 1 of this series on what makes a musical sound, we looked at two basic properties of a musical note – its pitch and loudness. Since these two notes … Read the rest
