[Sci-tech-public] Acoustics Conference

[Dawn Davis Loring]

Acoustics

 From the seventeenth century forward efforts in acoustics have 
involved complex interactions between mathematical theory and its 
application to real-world situations, between the physics of sound 
transmission and the physiology (and socio-culture) of its 
perception, and between designers of instruments for measuring sound 
and makers of musical instruments.   This Dibner workshop in the 
history of acoustics will emphasize these interactions, with special 
concern for ways in which the cultural aesthetics of sound framed 
acoustical research and that research altered architectural acoustics 
and the design of instruments and other devices for producing sound.  

Among the topics that the workshop participants will be addressing 
are the importance of scientific instrument-makers to the study of 
sound, the relevance of research on adiabatic phenomena in physics to 
the development of the Moog synthesizer, the relationship between 
Helmholtz's acoustical work and piano manufacture, World War I and 
the development of sound motion pictures, and technologies related to 
hearing.

May 4-6, 2006
Dibner Institute, MIT E56-100
Cambridge, MA - USA

Registration is free but, as space is limited, please RSVP to Dawn 
Davis Loring at dloring at mit.edu or 617-253-8721.

Organizers:
Myles Jackson, Willamette University
George E. Smith, Dibner Institute

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Dawn Davis Loring
Dibner Institute
Workshop & Conference Coordinator
MIT E56-100
38 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139

Phone: 617.253-8721
Direct Line: 617.258-7195
Fax: 617.253.9858
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