Withered Hand

When I became a parent and hit my thirties, I got my hands on an acoustic guitar. I started writing quiet, simple songs at home and, with a little encouragement, I got more courage and found my voice. I have people and movements who have inspired me to carry on, but I try to write about things I know, nothing too complicated, really.

Scottish Musician

Alexander Graham Bell

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

Scottish Inventor

Jim Croce

There's something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere, and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

American Musician

John Prine

I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an acoustic guitar, but I always related to the rock n' roll lifestyle.

American Singer

Nina Nesbitt

I took two years out to find what sound I felt passionate about and what I liked making. After the last album, 'Peroxide', which is quite poppy and acoustic, I felt really bored.

Katy Perry

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

Paolo Nutini

I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and drum machines, educating myself in that world.

Joe Bonamassa

I'm probably a more intentional acoustic player than I am an electric player because of lack of influences. I just play acoustic to see what happens.

Cass McCombs

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

Roman Jakobson

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

Russian Scientist

Used when discussing sound physics or how sound is made and heard.

Sound Study

'Acoustic' refers to sound-related aspects, not to a style of music.

Not Music Genre

Highlights purpose of design, which is to reduce echoes for clearer sound.

Echo Reduction

Refers to making spaces quieter, often used in architecture and building.

Quiet Environments

Indicates instruments or performances without electric amplification.

Non-Electric

Emphasizes the authentic, unaltered sound of acoustic instruments.

Natural Sound

Focuses on how well a space transmits and affects sound quality.

Sound Quality

Important in deciding where to hold musical or speaking events.

Venue Selection

 sharks though with small acoustic tags and we've got a network of receivers out here in the bay we started finding that actually the whale sharks don't leave they just move slightly further offshore and slightly deeper and they don't come to the surface quite as often one of my jobs while I'm here mafia is to take tissue biopsies of the whale sharks

Investigating the...

 see the chairs being spun around to go from proscenium or end stage to thrust configuration the proscenium also as far as we know this is the first building in the world in which the proscenium can entirely fly out of the space here you see the various acoustic baffles as well

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 Next time you speak, do those in advance. Now let me just put this in context to close. This is a serious point here. This is where we are now, right? We speak not very well to people who simply aren't listening in an environment that's all about noise and bad acoustics.

How to speak so that...

 We're hoping to break a world record with this. I would love to break a world record today, -I'm not gonna lie. -Okay. And where's the other half? Is this working in a different way? So this is an acoustic vortex. So we fire these loudspeakers in a sequence,

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 the goal of the project is really to track long-term the life of a group of wild dolphins specifically our aim is to really look at the communication system of these wild dolphins and figure out how they communicate in acoustics and body

Here's What We Know...

 as gravity compresses the photon gas and radiation pressure resists that these acoustic waves ring in the birth of the universe as the universe ages it also cools and once the universe is cold enough so the protons and electrons can

The making of cosmic...

 This helps improve the quota system that's used to manage the fishery and help prevent a collapse of the fish stock and protects this fragile ecosystem. Now, the drones survey the fishing ground using acoustics, i.e., a sonar.

How a fleet of...

 So here are a few examples to illustrate how intention has been expressed in some of the communities I've visited. Through the careful selection of furniture, lighting and acoustic materials to support eating together;

How cohousing can make...

 because of the uniqueness of the melody combined with the acoustic boombox here. And today, the hurdy-gurdy is used in all sorts of music -- traditional folk music, dance, contemporary and world music --

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 but it's meant that acousticians have had to really think about the types of halls they put together. There are so few halls in this world that actually have very good acoustics, dare I say.