Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750 to 1980

Hui, Alexandra; Kursell, Julia; Jackson, Myles W.

doi:10.1086/671360

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“…Many STS researchers are critical of any essentialist explanations for this: what Sterne (2003, p. 15) dubs the ‘audiovisual litany’, where sound is described as affective and relational, in contrast to the visual, which is apparently more objective and authoritative. Instead, the framing of science as a primarily visual way of knowing is understood to be a result of distinct socio-cultural histories and practices (Bijsterveld, 2019; Daston & Galison, 1992; Hui et al, 2013; Sterne, 2003).…”

Section: Sonic Geographies Of Knowledge Productionmentioning

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Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge

Hunter

2023

Soc Stud Sci

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If an apparently extinct bird calls in a forest, and there are people there to hear it—to record it, even—is it still extinct? The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was last ‘officially’ seen in the United States in 1944, but its extinction continues to be a subject of intense debate between conservation authorities, scientists, and grassroots activists. Tensions peaked around 2005, when scientists from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology announced their rediscovery of the species. However, their evidence received significant challenge from other ornithologists, and this apparent rediscovery has since been generally dismissed. In 2021, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service recommended the ivorybill be declared officially extinct. Still, many people continue to trawl the Southeastern forests in search of ivorybills. In this article, I investigate the methods, debates, and results of efforts to locate this species, with a focus on sound. In doing so, I explore the interconnected roles of sound and space in the making of extinction knowledge. Sonic search methods of listening, sounding, and translating are core ways that searchers attempt to attune to, communicate with, and establish evidence of ivorybills. Additionally, sonic search practices are critical spaces of negotiation and contestation between different searchers, between searchers and ivorybills, and between searchers and skeptics. Ultimately, this article argues that sonic geographies affect the production of extinction knowledge, and vice versa—extinction knowledge making practices produce distinct sonic geographies.

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Section: Sonic Geographies Of Knowledge Productionmentioning

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Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge

Hunter

2023

Soc Stud Sci

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“…Yet these were based on the harmonic series underlying the Western tonal system: for example, telephone engineers invented the harmonic telegraph for analyzing, compressing and synthesizing speech. The arrows of influence continued to operate in both directions, as the electronic sounds produced for scientific experiments found their way back into musical compositions (Hui, Kursell, and Jackson 2013).…”

Section: Music and Sciencementioning

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Minerva Scientifica: the owl that flies at dawn - women scientists, women composers

Fara¹

2017

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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Under the leadership of soprano Frances M Lynch, Minerva Scientifica deploys sung theatrical performances to encourage, celebrate and demonstrate the achievements of women in science and music. Based on collaborative discussions between practising female scientists and contemporary classical composers, the events staged by Minerva Scientifica are receiving high acclaim not only as educational and musical experiences for general audiences, but also for enhancing scientists' appreciation of their own work. Adopting a historical approach, this article first explores the relationships between three pairswomen and science, music and science, women and musicbefore giving a more detailed account of the project's evolution since 2011.

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“…Research on the acoustics of interiors has been the subject of scientists' interest for a long time. Multiple acoustic phenomena and the impact of the room shape on the acoustics have been the focus of many researchers for years up to the present day [1][2][3][4]. Acoustic performance is usually analyzed from either a subjective perception of listeners when immersed in auditoria (e.g., reverberance, clarity, loudness, intimacy, warmth, etc.)…”

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Design of Optimal Sound Absorbers Using Acoustic Diffusers for Multipurpose Auditoriums

Pardo-Quiles,

Rodríguez-Rodríguez,

Rodríguez

2024

Acoustics

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The main goal of this research was to design and study the best structure, location, and shape of acoustic diffusers to be fitted on the ceilings of multipurpose auditoriums. Their absorbing properties can enhance the acoustics when installed on high ceilings, and behind suspended reflecting panels, by mitigating or nullifying specular reflections that could overcome the panels and, thus, avoiding time delay gaps exceeding 30–40 ms compared with the direct sound. For this purpose, a typical medium-sized room, with inclined floors, a stage, and 20 rows of seats, was considered. The allocation and height of the considered diffusers were based on the Schroeder quadratic residue sequence, and they were modeled as rectangles, wedges, cylinders, and Y-shaped elements. A standardized speech source spectrum was analyzed for up to five different receiver locations. In this way, the attenuation parameter as a function of frequency was evaluated and compared between the candidate diffusers in order to identify the best absorber. The simulations were undertaken with a software tool previously validated by the authors called PARDOS, which incorporates an innovative formulation based on the uniform theory of diffraction (UTD) to analyze multiple diffractions and reflections of acoustic waves. The results show that the new Y-shaped diffusers proposed, tuned for the hearing frequency band from 250 Hz up to 10,000 Hz, attained the best acoustic performance in terms of absorption.

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Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750 to 1980

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge

Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge

Minerva Scientifica: the owl that flies at dawn - women scientists, women composers

Design of Optimal Sound Absorbers Using Acoustic Diffusers for Multipurpose Auditoriums

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