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  2. Wall of Sound - Wikipedia

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    The Wall of Sound (also called the Spector Sound) [1] [2] is a music production formula developed by American record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios, in the 1960s, with assistance from engineer Larry Levine and the conglomerate of session musicians later known as "the Wrecking Crew". The intention was to exploit the possibilities of ...

  3. Der Standard - Wikipedia

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    Der Standard has run its own web portal—derStandard.at—since February 1995 and claims this was the first appearance of a German-language newspaper on the web. In Q4 of 2011, according to Die Österreichische Webanalyse , [16] derstandard.at had a readership of 1,135,000 unique users (2,379,231 unique clients in December 2011) [17] and is ...

  4. Weber–Fechner law - Wikipedia

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    On the right side, the two squares look almost the same. The Weber–Fechner laws are two related scientific laws in the field of psychophysics, known as Weber's law and Fechner's law. Both relate to human perception, more specifically the relation between the actual change in a physical stimulus and the perceived change.

  5. Deutsch's scale illusion - Wikipedia

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    Deutsch's scale illusion is an auditory illusion in which two series of unconnected notes appear to combine into a single recognisable melody, when played simultaneously into the left and right ears of a listener. The illusion is produced by simultaneous ascending and descending major scales beginning in separate stereo channels with each ...

  6. Auditory illusion - Wikipedia

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    Auditory illusion. Auditory illusions are illusions of real sound or outside stimulus. [1] These false perceptions are the equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or sounds that should not be possible given the circumstance on how they were created. [2]

  7. A Web of Sound - Wikipedia

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    A Web of Sound. A Web of Sound is the second album by the American garage rock band the Seeds. Produced by Marcus Tybalt (aka Sky Saxon) and released in October 1966, it contained the single "Mr. Farmer" and the 14-minute closing song "Up In Her Room". The album did not chart, though it has received generally favorable reviews from music critics.

  8. Texture (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a musical composition, determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece. The texture is often described in regard to the density, or thickness, and range, or width, between lowest and highest pitches, in relative terms as well as more specifically ...

  9. Speed of sound - Wikipedia

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    The speed of sound is the distance travelled per unit of time by a sound wave as it propagates through an elastic medium. At 20 °C (68 °F), the speed of sound in air is about 343 m/s (1,125 ft/s; 1,235 km/h; 767 mph; 667 kn ), or 1 km in 2.91 s or one mile in 4.69 s. It depends strongly on temperature as well as the medium through which a ...