Fake Engine Noise Makes Electric Cars Safer

“Giving quiet electric and hybrid cars a fake engine sound will warn pedestrians they are coming.”

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“The Seeburg 1000 background music system was introduced in 1963 in which to provide background music or “elevator music” as we know it today for shoppers in stores, or factory workers etc. These units played a special record designed by seeburg 2″ diameter center hole 16-2/3 RPM disk. The machine was designed to provide continuous play of up to 25 disks, 20 songs per side, hence the name “1000″. At the end of the last record, the changer would lift the stack upto the top of the changer spindle for another round of playing.”

“Presentation by Chris Hunter: Early sound recording device 1922 – one of earliest attempts to record sound on film. The Pallophotophone recorded wave forms of sound using light which bounced off a small mirror, exposing 35 mm film.”

“Acoustic ecology , sometimes called soundscape ecology or soundscape studies, is the relationship, mediated through sound, between living beings and their environment. Acoustic ecology studies started in the late 1960s with R. Murray Schafer and his team at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) as part of the World Soundscape Project .”

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“What Photosounder does is invert the notes of the tune, which creates a different sounding tune, but it also inverts the overtones, so the instruments also sound different. This effect is unique to Photosounder, which is the only program out there that treats sounds and music entirely as images.”

Link: Photosounder