Cheese Sound Effect Download
Doretta Byun
The students and cheese makers behind this project posed the following questions: What would happen if cheese was exposed to various styles of music? And do sound waves have an effect on the taste and texture of cheese?
I am sure you have heard of Emmental cheese. (It's the one with the holes.) Produced at the Emmental cheese factory in the scenic Emmen Valley in Switzerland, this famous cheese became an object of science.
In collaboration with Bern University students from the Sound Arts department, the cheesemakers of the Käsehaus K3 in Burgdorf wanted to prove that exposure to music affects how cheese tastes and feels.
To assess whether these effects were real, a special panel composed of chefs, cheese makers, artists, and business professionals had the (difficult) task of tasting and examining all the cheeses. Even the mayor of Burgdorf took part in the jury panel.
Specifically, each cheese sample's texture, flavor, and taste varied according to the sounds it was exposed to. For instance, cheese exposed to hip-hop music or low-frequency sounds "had a stronger smell and a stronger, fruitier taste than the other test samples."
According to a press release, the cheese was then examined by food technologists from the ZHAW Food Perception Research Group, which concluded that the cheese exposed to music had a milder flavor compared to the non-musical cheese. They also found that the hip-hop cheese had a stronger aroma and stronger flavor than other samples.
It turns out that Wampfler was rooting for the hip-hop cheese to win all along. Now, reports Reuters, he and his collaborators want to expose cheese to five to ten different types of hip-hop to see if it has similar effects.
Wampfler also tells the AFP that he can see marketing cheeses based on the music they matured too. Already, he says people have called requesting cheese that has listened to the blues, Balkan music and ACDC.
The album takes inspiration from gospel music, and while I am always happy to see artists experimenting with different styles of music, each track sounds very much like they followed a formula as all the songs sound fairly similar.
Gospel sounding audio clips are integrated throughout every song, yet somehow the album still feels religious but also sacreligious at the same time. For some, TV Girl generally has what some would consider questionable and suggestive lyrics, but in the context of this album their delivery seems a little controversial.
When it\u2019s hot out, I reminisce about when my dad used to drive a Nissan Sentra, which had vinyl seats. During summer, the vinyl practically gave us second degree burns. It was awesome. Then when you got out of the car, it felt like you were removing Scotch tape from the back of your legs, complete with that sound and everything. You had to look at your legs to make sure you didn\u2019t actually leave a layer of skin behind.
The cheese, hilariously, didn\u2019t create a shell on top of the soup, but rather sank right into the depths of each ramekin. I guess Funyuns don\u2019t give Swiss cheese a lot of emotional support during its time of need, and it shows. You gotta be able to know your real friends from the fake ones sometimes, right?
The Human Centered Systems Team of RD&T is offering a series of hands-on workshops to promote the recently completed Human Factors Handbook for Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) Design. The handbook provides guidance to Traffic Management Center (TMC) design teams on efficient and effective ways to design TMCs, concentrating on design elements of the TMC related to human performance. The handbook provides design guidelines in the areas of human error, human performance, job design, anthropometry and design, display devices, controls and input devices, the work space, the user-computer interface, user aids, and presenting data.
A study by FHWA's Asphalt Team has revealed a new process to develop low-cost calcium magnesium acetate (CMA) deicers from cheap feed stocks such as cheese whey. The use of CMA deicer can help maximize the efficiency of winter maintenance operations and help preserve both the environment and the Nation's highway infrastructure.
CMA is a mixture of calcium acetate and magnesium acetate and has a deicing ability comparable to that of salt. Unlike salt, CMA is noncorrosive to vehicles, not harmful to highway concrete and vegetation, and has no significant health or environmental concerns. Unlike commercially available CMA, which is made from glacial acetic acid and dolomitic lime or limestone, CMA from cheese whey can be produced at highly competitive prices.
The new process calls for the fermentation of cheese whey in a fibrous bed reactor to produce acetate from lactose. The acetic acid is then extracted, recovered, and separated from the fermentation broth.
In order to prepare highway engineers to better mitigate noise pollution, a new video has been produced on Acoustics and Your Environment - the Basics of Sound and Highway Traffic Noise. The video was produced for FHWA by the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center Acoustics Facility It is an educational tool that presents the fundamentals of sound and highway traffic noise. The video thoroughly explains traffic noise analysis for residents immediately adjacent to a proposed noise barrier.
Sunday, December 10, 1pm
See the Sounds: Interactive Radio Theater Workshop
Join Spring Training Productions for a hands-on, behind-the-scenes look at how to create sound effects for radio plays. Help us set the mood for the Live Radio Play at 2 & 4pm, and make some noise in this fun and funny workshop.