Guarini Alumni Research Award Recipient 2021: Trevor Van de Velde, Digital Musics
You might take the electronic beep for granted. It's high pitched, alien, maybe even a little cute, maybe even a little annoying. It embodies the machine and yet, it is an entirely human-made sound. A simple piezo buzzer and a sine tone shaped the way in which analog machines sounded for decades, eventually bleeding into the digital technology. Well, what does technology sound like?
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