The sound of silence - for iPad/Mac/PC

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Why does each musical instrument have its own unique sound? What exactly distinguishes a guitar from a fiddle? Follow the story as we find out exactly how a musical note is produced and how to create the sound of silence. This material forms part of The Open University course MU120 Open mathematics.

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    The sound of silence introduction

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    An introduction to The Sound of Silence

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    Transcript -- An introduction to The Sound of Silence

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    Waves and harmonics

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2009 11:27


    Understand how a musical note is made up by plotting amplitude against time.

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    Transcript -- Understand how a musical note is made up by plotting amplitude against time.

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    Recreating sounds

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2009 10:20


    We take a trip to the Anglia polytechnic university of music theory to see if we can recreate the sound of a saxophone

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    Transcript -- Recreating sounds

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    Transcript -- We take a trip to the Anglia polytechnic university of music theory to see if we can recreate the sound of a saxophone

    effects demonstrations recreating sax reproduce harmonics anglia

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