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Sometimes, when transferring text to audio, or vice-versa, things can be changed. This is shown many times in Ray Bradbury’s Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed. Both versions tell the same story, but they use techniques specific to their mediums. In case you haven’t read it, a summary- The Bittering family- Harry, Cora, and their three children Dan, Laura, and David- has arrived on Mars as part of a new 800-person settlement. Coming from Boston, they have moved to Mars in order to avoid the foreseen destruction from the war that is being waged on Earth. While they were all skeptically optimistic about their new life on Mars, they took comfort in the fact that they could always buy a return ticket home at any time. But soon after their arrival, they are no longer able to rely on this option. Laura runs home one day to tell them that a bomb hit New York and all of the rockets were blown up. The family is stranded on Mars forever. Devastated, Harry decides to rededicate himself to his plot of land. As he was working in his garden, he begins to notice that things are the "same, but different," such as the peach blossoms, carrots, radishes, and other produce planted in his garden. Harry begins to panic that Mars is changing him and his belongings, even his family, whose skin is turning darker, and eyes turning golden. It's a fascinating story, and I would most definitely recommend it. This essay shall demonstrate the differences of the written piece compared to the auditory

To record this album an EMI console, a 16-track tape machine, a Fairchild limiters, and an EMT plate reverb were used. There were also up to five or six tape machines doing various delays, reverb delays, ect. at one time. Alan remembers “on the mix having to

Former President George W. Bush’s speech, “Bullhorn”, was given through a megaphone on top the rumble of 220 floors of a horrific event. On the day of September 11, 2001, an Islamic group, called Al-Qaeda, hijacked four American passenger airliners to carry out suicide attacks against targets across the United States. The potential targets included: the twin towers, the Pentagon and the White House. Three of the four hijacked airliners accomplished their goal as the lives of 3,000 innocent civilians were taken. A cloud of grief and mourn covered the country as they experience the worst tragedy since 1941, the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Soon after the attack on September 14th, a ray of hope appeared as President Bush took the stage. Throughout his speech, three rhetorical devices were shown are: ethos, logos, and pathos. Bush used these three devices to connect with the audiences’ emotions, appeal to the audiences’ ethics, and appeal to the logical side of the audience additionally, all while creating a sufficient speech to the comfort the country.

remains unchanged, making its message even more mighty. The absence of foley sounds for the

The long note versus the shorter notes are obvious because the notes are stretched out to the ear. The obvious crash sound in the song Riverboat Shuffle gives the illusion to one that is interpreting it that the composer might be facing hard times in life. Crashing sounds are psychologically wired to our brains as a scary sound that makes us jump if it’s very loud. Humans link crashing sounds to danger and as a warning sound to other animals to stay away. The low note of the trombone is obvious because it is not the usual notes that a trombone would play making it weird to listen to. Just like a very high pitch is uncomfortable to the ear a low pitch is also uncomfortable to listen to. The vocals in the West End Blues is obvious to the ear when comparing the two this should be the one thing that is obvious that is different from both

These qualities can easily be heard through Berry’s first verse, starting at 25 seconds into the song. Berry harmonizes well with his backup singers, and is clearly comprehensible throughout the whole passage. On the contrary, Ely’s voice sounds unrehearsed and often as if he is yelling the song rather than singing it. Ely’s voice is often masked by the instrumentation, and incomprehensible at some points. These characteristics can be noted clearly at the one minute mark of the video, at this point Ely sounds as if though he is yelling, is masked by the instrumentation, and cannot easily be understood. Berry clearly enunciates his speech while Ely slurs his words and varies in volume throughout the song. Part of these differentiations could be due to the fact that The Kingsmen were a “garage band,” they had little formal training and recorded on simple equipment, potentially leading to the rough sound of Ely’s voice. The multiple differences between Berry and Ely’s voices give rise to a distinct sound for each version.

These songs can be compared and contrasted through three main ideas: production, musicality, and popularity. The first topic to discuss regards the beginning of every song in the world, the production. The production of a song is very important, as every song created needs to

The differences are apparent the first song like I said earlier starts of with a Hispanic feel to it and carries into the first minute or so. The second song starts off the orchestra unlike the first song. I feel that these songs have

The texture of the two pieces are fairly different because of the different style of the two artists. In both versions, the texture is polyphonic and mixed. I would say the Aerosmith version is a bit heavier because you cannot always tell what instruments are playing when, and in the Canadian Brass versions, most of the time the instruments being played are identifiable.

In my thinking, starting an up-tempo will affect the former track because track need to adhere to a certain rhythm so the audience can easily enjoy the music like if a track plays with fast and slow rhythms erratic will make the listener feel uncomfortable, and have a difficult time to following the beats. In addition, there is a section that the sound is getting faded in the 0:19s in the first performance and then return to normal sound. That section just happens for a little bit and the second performance is opposite, the time of the section is a little bit longer. Besides, the observe both tracks from start to finish can see that the second performance has more break than the second one. So, why is there a change in the rhythm tones in two tracks? Maybe the instruments used in two instruments have

In this specific piece, you can hear the buzz from the microphone stands when the low end really resonates. As mentioned earlier, the piece jumps in dynamics so in the track you can hear on high quality speakers that buzz every time the low end builds up. Some of the sections were really reliant on just low end and that slight hiss from the microphone stand distracted me in a way. Another thing I disliked about the track was his timing throughout his piece. As mentioned, one of the things I liked were the delayed hits and those were also another thing I disliked. They worked when transitioning higher and lower sections, but they screwed up all of his progressions. During these times of the recording is when some of random sounds came about that I disliked. I felt like he would get me very in tune with the piece then drop me out with an offbeat note or

This is one type, out of many types, of conversations that go on over the CB radio. Truckers converse about everything under the sun. There are lots of good talk, like directions, road conditions, weather, traffic. police, hitchhikers, construction, accidents and more. There are even conversations about whether weigh stations are open/closed and events in the weigh stations if they are open.

Love Me Do and Can't Buy Me Love sounded like a simple recording, while the other two songs sounded more produced, the last song Tomorrow Never Knows sounded the most produced. I could hear the drums in all the songs,

In some cases Bowie’s voice is quite raspy: it is only a slight exaggeration to say that he sounds as if he is choking or in need of clearing his throat. At other points, especially during the chorus, it is stronger and clearer, if not perfectly so. At various junctures a strange sound can be heard in the background, a sound similar to that made by running the end of a drumstick across a washing board or stepping on a creaky, old wooden board (Bowie). The ending features deep but subdued vocals mingling together vigorously to produce a sort of operatic sound which endures for approximately the final minute and which creates a high and flying sense of excitement and expectation similar to that which is created by such energetic pieces as Rossini’s “William Tell Overture” (albeit with far less aesthetic beauty and

Sitting in the co-pilot's seat of a Navy S-3B Viking, president Bush landed May 1 on the USS abraham lincoln, an aircraft Carrier stationed off the coast of san Diego. Dressed in a flight suit, he gave a Nationally televised victory speech from the carrier's flight deck and declared, “major combat operations in iraq have