The technique of compression is frequently used in editing music. Basically, one takes the quiet sounds of a piece of music and makes them louder, while essentially leaving the loud parts the same.
Compression can be useful when using a wide range of dynamics over a certain course of time. A listener can sit back [...]
Posts made in June, 2007
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Aphex Twin is a pen-name of sorts for Richard James. His music is sometimes considered rather quirky. His more recent works display dramatic shifts and changes in percussion structures, rhythms, and sounds. By no means do these sound simple. For those hearing these works the first (several) times, it can be quite difficult [...]
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Video games as exercise is gradually becoming a more accepted phenomenon. Video games have had to fight against a stereotype, largely built by itself, of being a mainly sedentary activity. The image of a someone becoming overweight or out of shape due to sitting on a couch staring at a screen hardly needs [...]
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Ars Technica reports a trend of kids being exposed to technology at ever younger ages. So, how young is too young? The focus of the article points out this trend which may alarm some parents and members of society. Meanwhile, kids are learning the technology quickly without giving it a [...]
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What makes a therapist? Certainly, there are different styles to every craft. But, there seem to be so many fundamentally different ways of functioning in the role of a therapist from psychoanalysis, to dialectical-behavioral, to interpersonal, among many others.
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