weekly blog (3/31/19) Analog Vs. Digital

Summary:
Analog is anything that works mechanically with moving parts and doesn't require programing. Digital requires programing and is not as physical. There are different benefits of both and many different purposes to chose one.

S&EP:
I constructed physical, mental or conceptual models to represent and understand concepts by creating graphs to represent different sampling rates of digital recordings. This helped me understand how recording on a digital interface works. We didn't do the same for analog since we already know how that works.

XCC:
There are two sides to this, Digital and Analog. There would be issues and reasons to choose both sides.

Project Blog (3/24/19)

Summary:
We created a musical instrument for this project. The instrument is very similar to a ukulele in looks but there are many differences. The first, minor, difference is that ours has 3 strings in order of lowest- highest and ukuleles have 4 strings in a different order. But that is just a minor difference; ours also produces sound in a different way. The strings are not necessarily to pieces of the instrument that directly vibrates the air and creates sound. Instead, when you pluck the string, it vibrates against the small cardboard piece on the base kind of like a snare drum. This grossly amplifies the sound since it shakes the whole instrument made of cardboard which is hollow so that helps too. It also makes the instrument have a whole new sound that I have not heard in anything else.

Backward-Looking:
I do a lot of music related activities so I already knew a lot about this subject. I do mostly percussion instruments so I have spent time observing how it worked and how it vibrated. When percussion instrument you can see it vibrating and sometimes feel the vibrations when you put your have near a cymbal soon after you hit it.

Inward-Looking:
I do like this piece of work in general. I really like how I used the idea of how a snare drum works to produce lots of sound, which is not used ever in string instruments. But I don't particularly like how it looks. It looks far too much like a ukulele which would make it un-original. Even if I had no say how it looked because of my partners. But another thing I don't like is the surface of the top cardboard and how ripped up it is.

Outward-Looking:
We simultaneously did our work similar and different than others. Multiple other groups had a similar idea with the shape of a guitar/ukulele just with different takes on it. But what was unique is our take on it as I mentioned earlier with the rubberband buzzing on the cardboard.

Forward-Looking:
I would like to improve upon making it look nicer since it looks kind of scrappy due to the fact that we had many iterations. I would also like to have teammates that knew kind of what music was and how it worked or at least admitted that they didn't really know and didn't take over everything until the very end when I had figure out how to make it actually work.

Vibrations of the inner ear (3/3/19)

Very loud music or any loud noise is very harmful to your hearing. When your ear is exposed to sound, your eardrum vibrates and after a few steps with the hammer and the anvil. There are nerve endings in your middle ear the send signals to your brain to process it as sound. But when I sound is too loud, those sensitive nerve endings start to die and cause problems such as hearing loss and tinnitus. If it is really loud, then your ear drum has a chance of rupturing.