If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! And if there’s anything else I can do for you, feel free to drop me a line.So, a couple of days ago I walked home (I stay in Tampines) from Victoria Concert Hall. More specifically, I walked from Victoria [...]

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We’ve all heard the high pitched squeal that results from feedback from speakers. And I’m pretty sure most of you would agree that it’s annoying. It’s not something you want to hear.
Feedback occurs when a microphone picks up it’s own sound from the speaker. The sound gets trapped in a loop (microphone picks [...]

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2 15 18 9 6 4.
Pick a number.
Now, how many of you picked 18? How many picked 6?
And how many of you picked 7? Or 951? Or 3000?
Why not? I didn’t say you had to pick a number that I wrote down. Yet most people assume that.
People tend [...]

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Communication is about the interpretation, not the intent of the message.
Is what you say the same as what your customer hears? If it isn’t, what can you do about it?
This is my entry to Brad Shorr’s Win an Ipod Nano contest.
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Sometimes it’s better to not think too much, and just go for it.

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Scientists funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) have found that, when jazz musicians are engaged in the highly creative and spontaneous activity known as improvisation, a large region of the brain involved in monitoring [...]

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Ever noticed how you tend not to hear background sounds after a while? When you first turn an air conditioner on, for example, you notice the sound. After a while, you don’t hear it anymore. Same goes for a clock ticking, among other things.
Our brains have “novelty detector neurons“, which respond to newer sounds, and [...]

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When you record audio or video (or even take a photo), with today’s technology, there’s a lot you can do after the original recording. If it’s an audio file, you can EQ it, filter it. If it’s a video, you can put transitions, color correct. If it’s a picture, you can change the brightness and [...]

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