Ukrainian Folklore Audio Project

Binaural Audio Project

The aim of this project is to expand on the techniques and knowledge used in binaural audio. This includes main characteristics: Interaural Time Difference (ITD), Interaural Level Difference (ILD) and Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF). Recordings were made at the University’s anechoic chamber with a dummy head and binaural microphones to test the effect of turning the head in front of a spe...

Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel

Audio-Driven Laser Tetris Final Project Report

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate an advanced version of the classic arcade game Tetris. Our version boasts a much more dynamic and random game-play experience than conventional implementations. Users manipulate the falling objects as in the traditional version, but the entire game is also driven by music and projected onto a large screen using a laser raster system. The audio-based...

Implementing digital folklore collections

In this paper, we present a metadata model to describe the digitized digital folklore collection of the Department of Greek Studies in the University of Athens. Folklore collection consists of different kinds of digitized material. The volume and the variety of material results to collection representation as a hierarchical structure, according to the type of objects, the corresponding chronolo...

Folklore and Medicine

Your education heretofore has been focused on the horizon which opens for the first time to-day, to fit you to receive training as entered apprentices of the mystery and art of clinical medicine and surgery. From now on you will come into contact with the raw material of our craft, the sick and suffering who seek relief within the walls of this hospital. It will be your duty and inestimable pri...