MUSIC 29 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Auditory Scene Analysis, Ambient Music, Inharmonicity
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Ambient music: all the organized sound that meets our ears in public places can be considered as part of the ambient music soundscape. Auditory scene analysis: auditory scene analysis is concerned with our abilities to distinguish one sound from another, to locate sounds in space, identify and segregate sound sources, or focus on one particular source in a complex web of sources. Entrainment: entrainment thus forms the dynamic multimodal framework from which musical magic, a peak experience of a group of people, may emerge. Frequency: frequency is defined as a number of cycles per unit time and can be used to describe various cyclical processes, such as rotation, oscillations, or waves. Frequency domain as the range of hearing where humans perceive periodic vibrations as tones, roughly from 15 cycles to 20,000 cycles per second or hertz. The individual component waveforms are called partials and they can be classed into two categories: harmonic partials and inharmonic partials.
