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Auditory processing-based features for improving speech recognition in adverse acoustic conditions
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Aerospace medicine and biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 335)
This bibliography lists 143 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information System during March, 1990. Subject coverage includes: aerospace medicine and psychology, life support systems and controlled environments, safety equipment, exobiology and extraterrestrial life, and flight crew behavior and performance
Sensory Communication
Contains table of contents on Section 2, an introduction, reports on eleven research projects and a list of publications.National Institutes of Health Grant 5 R01 DC00117National Institutes of Health Grant 5 R01 DC00270National Institutes of Health Contract 2 P01 DC00361National Institutes of Health Grant 5 R01 DC00100National Institutes of Health Contract 7 R29 DC00428National Institutes of Health Grant 2 R01 DC00126U.S. Air Force - Office of Scientific Research Grant AFOSR 90-0200U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-90-J-1935National Institutes of Health Grant 5 R29 DC00625U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-91-J-1454U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-92-J-181
The Aural and the Quotidian: Everyday Experience in Listening and Practice
The research herein comprises an examination of the following question: in what ways do
our experiences of the everyday inhere in our experiences of the aural as aesthetic and
meaningful? It is not concerned with forging a definition of everyday sound as a category
of sonic effects, but instead an analysis of the ways that the everyday, aural and
otherwise, is interpenetrating with our perceptual capacities and the cultural practices
encompassing aural aesthetic production and experience.
This thesis extends extant discourses surrounding the notion that the experience of sound
as meaningful and aesthetic is connected to our general experience as embodied beings in
the material world. The following analysis encompasses aspects of auditory perception,
music aesthetics, and sound art production from the perspective of the body, as it is the
locus of the listening subject situated within the domain of everyday experience. This
includes an investigation of sound transduction technologies, as the devices that enable
aural aesthetic practice are central to its analysis in the context of the everyday. Listening
attitudes are transformed through cultural practice, structuring the relationship between
the domain of the everyday, the embodied listening subject, sound recordings as cultural
artefacts, and the attendant process of transduction.
Discourses that attribute non-material, disembodied understandings to aesthetic
experience are examined and challenged. From this, a fundamentally material, embodied
approach to auditory experience is proposed, and with it a consideration of the ways that
sound art and acousmatic music engage with the process of human understanding and the
constitution of meaning in sound. Self-reflexive methodologies in aural aesthetic practice
are exemplified, with the aim of promoting an expanded conception of aural context that
includes the technological, cultural, and phenomenal aspects of its production
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