{"id":21306,"date":"2010-06-17T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T08:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/vuvuzela-vs-sound-engineer-has-the-world-cup-stadium-horn-met-its-match-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2010-06-17T08:09:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T08:09:38","slug":"vuvuzela-vs-sound-engineer-has-the-world-cup-stadium-horn-met-its-match-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/vuvuzela-vs-sound-engineer-has-the-world-cup-stadium-horn-met-its-match-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"Vuvuzela vs Sound Engineer: Has the World Cup Stadium Horn Met Its Match? | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"vuv\"<\/a>Though these multicolored horns might look like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, World Cup followers can attest that the vuvuzela<\/a> is a loud and droning reality<\/a>. South Africa’s soccer stadiums are resounding with their buzzing calls, driving TV audiences to distraction and causing many a viewer to reach for the mute button.<\/p>

Some spectators have called for bans on the instrument, but FIFA<\/a> has refused. Its president, Sepp Blatter, said via Twitter<\/a>: “I don’t see banning the music traditions of fans in their own country. Would you want to see a ban on the fan traditions in your country?”<\/p>

But there may be a technological fix, an audio filter meant to cancel out, acoustically, the collective roar of the plastic horns.<\/p>

The<\/em> Telegraph<\/em> reports<\/a> that German recording and mixing engineer Clemence Schlieweis believes that viewers can cancel out the sounds blaring from their televisions by playing his 45-minute track of an “inverse” sound wave. He made the sound by manipulating a recording from a match broadcast, and compares his technique to ones commonly used by sound engineers to improve recordings’ quality, to remove the buzz of an air conditioner from an interview, for example.<\/p>

But some acoustics experts are skeptical, given that the vuvuzela’s sounds are anything but uniform. Trevor Cox at the University of Salford, told<\/a> The Telegraph<\/em>:<\/p>

<\/em> “I can’t see how it could work. The vuvuzela chorus may come across as a single sound on television, but it is actually hundreds of instruments being blown at different times.”<\/p><\/blockquote>

But if Schlieweis’s recording can’t beat the vuvuzela, another technology is allowing spectators to join the chorus. The vuvuzela iPhone app<\/a> is the number one downloaded free iPhone app in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, UK, and South Africa, with reportedly over one million downloads.<\/p>

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Cosmic Variance: Yet Another World Cup Post<\/a><\/p>

Image: flickr \/ Dundas Football Club<\/a><\/em><\/p>

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