The influx of Sound dynamics: A perspective of Music and Physics 18 16

Abstract

Learning sound dynamics of a music piece helps a musician in the pursuit to compose, record and present music of higher quality. The effectiveness to create the most efficient environment to present a music before an audience depends largely on placement of microphones and speakers in an auditorium or a recording studio. In this work, an understanding of concepts of constructive and destructive interference on superposition of sound waves is described which will help a musician to creatively improve his performance. An experiment is conducted to calculate absorption coefficient of different sound absorbing materials. Knowing the physics of sound absorbing materials will help the composers to design their own studios.