How are sounds created?
How are sounds created?
Music is as old as humanity itself, yet it is created anew every day. It makes us happy or sad. It sweeps us away, makes us dance or soothes us. It touches us deep within, and we can scarcely resist its influence.
Music is like a language that everyone in the world can understand. Language consists of words; music consists of sounds. But how are these sounds produced? What does the sound of a violin have in common with the arrow and bow of a Stone Age hunter? Why do we hear the flapping of a bee’s wings as a buzz, but not the fluttering of a butterfly’s wings? How do musical instruments work?
We want to explore these physical principles of music and, in doing so, also learn how to make simple musical instruments ourselves.
Presenter: Anke Genius (NDR)
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 4.30 pm
, Audimax Lecture Centre
Featuring: ‘Piccolo Percussion’, national prize-winners of the ‘Jugend musiziert 2004’ competition, and other pupils from the Oldenburg Music School.