Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hell of a job. The music has to sound as if it were being played by a live orchestra and at the same time it has to sound as if it were coming from...
This was John Safer 3L speaking and he was referring to his job as sound technician for the Harvard Theatre Workshop's production of "The Tempest...
...especially for the play but it has created several problems, acoustic and otherwise for Safer. Old Brattle Hall was built in 1890 before the days of the loud speaker. When Safer agreed to set up the loud speaker system for the HTW he had to calculate first where the sound ought to come from and then figure how to get the loud speakers there...
...styles of architecture. Classes in German, Swedish, and Norwegian share the rambling classrooms under the eaves on the third floor with the microphones and wire recorders of Professor Packard's speech department. The second floor is inhabited by an organ, one of the few in the country whose sound approaches that of the type used by Bach. The organ got there rather fortuitously its designer, in casting about for a place with the proper acoustics, happened upon the Museum, and found that its acoustics were perfect, although the building had not been constructed with music in mind. So the organ...
Hidden Teammates. The sound of the coyote's cry at night is the common denominator of Southwest experience. It is one of the things that adults remember of a ranch house childhood; when heard again in age it summons up the whole complex of dry weather, sun-baked corrals, rock ranch houses, Mexicans, road runners, cattle, rattlesnakes, water tanks, windmills and lonely country. Says Dobie: it is an integral part of the life of the Southwest, which a New Mexico cowboy called the "land that seemed to be grieving over something-a kind of sadness, loneliness in a deathly...