MU130 - Quiz 2

Spectrogram

Visual representation of sonic frequency

Fourier Transform

Mathematical method of extracting component frequencies from an original mic

Fundamental

Base frequency of a tone

Harmonics

Individual sine tones making up a sound

Formant

Loudest harmonics that determine the character of a sound

Throat singing

A style of singing that produces more than one pitch

Khomus

Jaw harp from Sakha (northern Siberia)

Hermann von Helmholtz

German physicist who made crucial contributions to the field of acoustics

Rudolph Koenig

German physicist who built acoustic devices

Vocoder

The first electronic human voice emulator, developed by Homer Dudley in 1920

Basilar Membrane

An inner ear membrane that enables the perception of specific frequencies