German physician and physicist who made important contributions in the fields of vision, acoustics and psychoacoustics, physics, and philosophy; wrote "On the Sensations of Tone"
Who is Hermann Helmholtz
100
The instrument was played by moving the hands around the metal loop for volume and around the antenna for pitch
What is theremin
100
Audio engineer and collaborator with Pierre Schaeffer; designed specialized audio equipment for the studio
Who is Jacques Poullin
100
playing tape backwards allowing sounds to be heard in reverse
What is tape reversal
200
the rate of doing work
What is power
200
a set of noise producting instruments made by Luigi Russolo
What is the Intonarumori
200
American inventor who designed and buillt an electro-mechanical music synthesizer, which he called the Telharmonium
Who is Thaddeus Cahill
200
development of amplitude and envelope
What is Dynamic Plan
200
the periodic repetition of a sound accomplished through tape recorders
What is tape echo/delay
300
change in barometric air pressure resulting from a sound wave
What is sound pressure level
300
One of the first modern composers to experiment with different scales, and unresolved blocks of extended tertian harmony
Who is Erik Satie
300
platform for sonifying dance movement
What is the terpsitone
300
development of timbre
What is Harmonic Plan
300
results in changes in both duration and pitch simultaneously
What is tape speed changes
400
musical term to describe the sensation of smoothness
What is consonance
400
Pioneered various compositional techniques including polytonality, polyrhythms, and polymeters
Who is Charles Ives
400
an invention that uses Four basic loudspeakers: standard loudspeaker, métallique speaker, resonance speaker, palm speaker
What is the Ondes Martenot
400
collaborator with Pierre Schaeffer; l’objet sonore
Who is Abraham Moles
400
sonic modulation due to the mixture of direct sound and indirect (reflected) sound
What is reverberation
500
has a frequency ratio of 3:2
What is perfect fifth
500
Began as an art movement in Italy with the publication of the Futurist Manifesto
Who is Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
500
a thing that spreads sound out from its source; another name for loudspeaker
What is diffuser
500
The piece was accomplished by technological means; the manipulation of sounds determined their final outcome