This is a cool video: Cymatics Science vs music. Nice experiments with sound, and the cinematography is very good as well!
Cymatics Science vs music
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How does a single atom sound?
How does a single atom sound? We don’t know (yet), but Researchers at Columbia University and Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology managed to capture a single phonon, the sound an atom makes when is excited.
Phonons might actually be interesting in the field of quantum computing, because they move much slower than photons and, therefore, are easier to manipulate.
In comparison to photons, phonons have several striking features. Their speed of propagation is around 10^5 times lower, and their wavelength at a given frequency correspondingly shorter,” the researchers wrote in Science. “The slow speed means that qubits can be tuned much faster [than photons] … this enables new dynamic schemes for trapping and processing quanta.
Read the full story here: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/scientists-have-captured-the-sound-one-atom-makes
Ghosts or acoustics?
During Halloween in Indianapolis, the Acoustical Society of America held a special session titled “Acoustic Trick-or-Treat: Eerie Noises, Spooky Speech, and Creative Masking.” One of the talks in this session was by Miriam Kolar of Amherst College, and she talked about the special acoustics in a 3000-year-old ceremonial center, known as Chavín de Huántar, in the Peruvian Andes. The acoustic phenomena observed at the site might have been interpreted as an embodiment of the instruments played during ceromonies or an intervention by a higher power. Read the full article at Physics Today or visit the project’s website.
Rolf Hut’s lectures at the ‘Universiteit van Nederland’
Some time ago I attended Rolf Hut‘s lectures at the ‘Universiteit van Nederland’. He discusses multiple physics topics, such as acoustics, water management and data sampling, all at a level understandable to most people. Here’s part 1, you will find the other four episodes on this Youtube channel.
The World’s Longest Reverb
This is cool: Trevox Cox, professor of Acoustics Engineering at the University of Salford, has discovered the world’s longest natural reverb. It was found in an oild storage tank in Scotland. The reverberation tail has a length of 112 seconds in the 125 Hz band, which is quite impressive!
Article on Geluidnieuws.nl
An article I wrote has been published on the Dutch website Geluidnieuws.nl: “Ruimte-akoestiek meten met virtuele oren“. It basically is a summary (in Dutch) of my recent JASA paper.
Research paper presented at ICA 2013
A research paper I co-authored was presented at the International Congress on Acoustics (ICA) 2013 in Montreal, Canada:
Stefan Klockgether, Jasper Van Dorp Schuitman, and Steven Van de Par (2013). “Perceptual limits for detecting interaural-cue manipulations measured in reverberant settings”, Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2013), Montreal, Canada
Click here for the full text
Research paper in JASA
It’s already some time ago, but a research paper titled “Deriving content-specific measures of room acoustic perception using a binaural, nonlinear auditory model” by me, Diemer de Vries and Alexander Lindau was published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (March issue).