acoustic

• “Jordan has a choral singing background but prefers the term 'acoustic music' rather than 'folk' to describe her work.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “Villchur's development of what he called the acoustic suspension woofer made it possible for music lovers to buy loudspeakers that were domestically acceptable," Mr. Atkinson said in a 2009 interview.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “The noises generated by ships create what I call acoustic smog," said Michel Andre, director of the Laboratory of Applied Bio-Acoustics in Barcelona.”

  Comments for Impact Lab

• “They have set up a long-term acoustic monitoring device on the sea floor that will pick up marine mammal calls to help track the impact on population sizes over time.”

  The Guardian: Submerged oil plumes suggest gulf spill is worse than BP claims

• “While surveying the calls of male frogs and toads engaged in acoustic displays for females, researchers recorded approximately 5,000 boreal chorus frogs, wood frogs and western toads at 54 beaver ponds over a two-year period.”

  Archive 2007-01-01

• “With that said, I worry that the report might seem more promising that it is ... in acoustic terms, reducing noise by "50%" usually just means making a noise quieter by 10dB.”

  Piezofenestration

• “Except for the door and soundproof window, the entire studio is lined in acoustic tile with strange Pollockian patterns of tiny holes.”

  Host

• “For that reason it is frequently called the acoustic nerve ( "hear" G), or auditory nerve ( "hear" L).”

  The Human Brain

• “These eerie silences were called "acoustic shadows.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “On Monday, one can attend a screening of F.W. Murnau's silent horror classic "Nosferatu" at BAMcinématek in Brooklyn, with a live score by the Norwegian performer Svarte Greiner, the innovator of an ambient music subgenre called "acoustic doom.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Playing It Unsafe at the Unsound Festival

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