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  2. Alarm device - Wikipedia

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    The word alarm comes from the Old French a l'arme meaning "to the arms", or "to the weapons", telling armed men to pick up their weapons and get ready for action because an enemy may have suddenly appeared. [1] The word alarum is an archaic form of alarm. It was sometimes used as a call to arms in the stage directions of Elizabethan dramas. [2]

  3. Auditory imagery - Wikipedia

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    The accuracy of tempo within an auditory image usually suffers when recalled; however, the consistency of a person's perception of tempo is preserved. When surveying subject's auditory imagery, their sense of tempo usually stays within 8% of the original tempo heard in a song that the subject heard at some point in the past. [1]

  4. Automatic Warning System - Wikipedia

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    An AWS visual indicator (known as the 'sunflower') An AWS audible indicator (capable of producing two different sounds, clear indication sound = bell, warning indication sound = 'horn'. On modern rolling stock the electromechanical bell and horn is replaced with an electronically generated "chime" or "buzz".

  5. Digital audio - Wikipedia

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    Popular streaming services such as Apple Music, Spotify, or YouTube, offer temporary access to the digital file, and are now the most common form of music consumption. [2] An analog audio system converts physical waveforms of sound into electrical representations of those waveforms by use of a transducer, such as a microphone.

  6. Music visualization - Wikipedia

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    The first electronic music visualizer was the Atari Video Music introduced by Atari Inc. in 1977, and designed by the initiator of the home version of Pong, Robert Brown. The idea was to create a visual exploration that could be implemented into a Hi-Fi stereo system. [1] In the United Kingdom music visualization was first pioneered by Fred Judd.

  7. Visual music - Wikipedia

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    Visual music also refers to systems which convert music or sound directly into visual forms, such as film, video, computer graphics, installations or performances by means of a mechanical instrument, an artist's interpretation, or a computer. The reverse is applicable also, literally converting images to sound by drawn objects and figures on a ...

  8. Acoustic fingerprint - Wikipedia

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    An acoustic fingerprint is a condensed digital summary, a digital fingerprint, deterministically generated from an audio signal, that can be used to identify an audio sample or quickly locate similar items in a music database. [1]

  9. Sonification - Wikipedia

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    Video of air pollution data from Beijing being conveyed as a piece of music. Sonification is the use of non-speech audio to convey information or perceptualize data. [1] Auditory perception has advantages in temporal, spatial, amplitude, and frequency resolution that open possibilities as an alternative or complement to visualization techniques.