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White noise

White noise is a signal (or process), named by analogy to white light, with equal energy per cycle (hertz).This produces a flat frequency spectrum in linear space. In other words, the signal has equal power in any band of a given bandwidth (power spectral density). For example, the range of frequencies between 40 Hz and 60 Hz contains the same amount of sound power as the range between 4000 Hz and 4020 Hz has.
An infinite-bandwidth white noise signal is purely a theoretical construct. By having power at all frequencies, the total power of such a signal would be infinite. In practice, a signal is considered "white" if it has a flat spectrum over a defined frequency band (such as the range of human hearing, or the frequency response of audio/visual equipment).


Pink noise

The frequency spectrum of pink noise is flat in logarithmic space; it has equal power in bands that are proportionally wide. This means that pink noise would have equal power in the frequency range from 40 to 60 Hz as in the band from 4000 to 6000 Hz. Since humans hear in such a proportional space, where a doubling of frequency is perceived the same regardless of actual frequency (40–60 Hz is heard as the same interval and distance as 4000–6000 Hz), every octave contains the same amount of energy and thus pink noise is often used as a reference signal in audio engineering. That is, the human auditory system perceives approximately equal magnitude on all frequencies. The power density, compared with white noise, decreases by 3 dB per octave (density proportional to 1/f ). For this reason, pink noise is often called "1/f noise".
Since there are an infinite number of logarithmic bands at both the low frequency (DC) and high frequency ends of the spectrum, any finite energy spectrum must have less energy than pink noise at both ends. Pink noise is the only power-law spectral density that has this property: all steeper power-law spectra are infinite if integrated to the DC, low frequency end, and all flatter power-law spectra are infinite if integrated to the high-frequency limit.


Brown noise

In fields that adopt precise definitions, the terminology "red noise", also called Brown noise or Brownian noise, will usually refer to a power density which decreases 6 dB per octave with increasing frequency (density proportional to 1/f 2) over a frequency range which does not include DC (in a general sense, does not include a constant component, or value at zero frequency). In areas where terminology is used loosely, "red noise" may refer to any system where power density decreases with increasing frequency.
The first definition can be generated by an algorithm which simulates Brownian motion or by integrating white noise. "Brown" noise is not named for a power spectrum that suggests the color brown; rather, the name is a corruption of Brownian motion. "Red noise" describes the shape of the power spectrum, with pink being between red and white. Also known as "random walk" or "drunkard's walk" noise.


Blue noise

Blue noise is also called azure noise. Blue noise's power density increases 3 dB per octave with increasing frequency (density proportional to f ) over a finite frequency range. In computer graphics, the term "blue noise" is sometimes used more loosely as any noise with minimal low frequency components and no concentrated spikes in energy. This can be good noise for dithering; retinal cells are arranged in a blue-noise-like pattern for this reason.


Violet noise

Violet noise is also called purple noise. Violet noise's power density increases 6 dB per octave with increasing frequency (density proportional to f 2) over a finite frequency range. It is also known as differentiated white noise.


Grey noise

Grey noise is random pink noise subjected to a psychoacoustic equal loudness curve (such as an inverted A-weighting curve) over a given range of frequencies, giving the listener the perception that it is equally loud at all frequencies. This is in contrast to standard pink noise which has equal strength over a logarithmic scale of frequencies but is not perceived as being equally loud due to biases in the human equal-loudness contour.


Orange noise

Orange noise is quasi-stationary noise with a finite power spectrum with a finite number of small bands of zero energy dispersed throughout a continuous spectrum. These bands of zero energy are centered about the frequencies of musical notes in whatever scale is of interest. Since all in-tune musical notes are eliminated, the remaining spectrum could be said to consist of sour, citrus, or "orange" notes.


Green noise

1. "Green noise is supposedly the background noise of the world. A really long term power spectrum averaged over several outdoor sites. Rather like pink noise with a hump added around 500 Hz."
2. The mid-frequency component of white noise, used in halftone dithering
3. Bounded Brownian noise


Black noise
Black noise is silence.

5.20.09

Belong/October Language/I Never Lose. Really Really
Mogwai/Live/Superheroes of BMX
Six Organs of Admittance/School of the Flower/Eight Cognition
Winter Lull/Winter Lull/Let's Ride Bikes
Rauelsson/Tiempo De/Tuve Que Salir De Mi
Barn Owl/Bridge to the Clouds/Diamond Day
Tin Ears/Open Source/Snow Blind (Dead Man)
Hope Sandoval/Bavarian FB/Clear Day
Songs of Green Pheasant/SOGF/The Burning Man
Hush Arbors/Hush Arbors/Sand
The Radio Dept./Pet Grief/A Window
Epic45/May Your Heart Be the Map/Lost in Falling Light
Valet/Naked Acid/Kehaar
Woods/Songs of Shame/The Number
Library Tapes/A Summer Beneath the Trees/Above the Flood
Misophone/Where Has It Gone/White Waves
5turns25/Elephant Platform/Desert Ants
Django Reinhardt/Django/Minor Swing
Radiohead/Amnesiac/Life in a Glasshouse
Olafur Arnalds/ET/3055
Mountains/Choral/Choral
Camera Obscura/My Maudlin Career/James
The Dead Texan/The Dead Texan/The 6 Million Dollar Sandwich
Brethren of the Free Spirit/All Things/In Him Is No Sin
July Skies/The Weather Clock/See Britain By Train
Emiliana Torrini/Fisherman's Woman/Sunnyroad
Inca Ore/Split/Churpa Champurrado
Corespondents/Drooplets
Doves/Kingdom of Rust/Kingdom of Rust
Sin Fang Bous/Clangour/Poirot
Grouper/Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill/Stuck

4.8.9

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Mountains/Choral/Choral
July Skies/The Weather Clock/The Weather Clock
Six Organs of Admittance/Eight Cognition/The School of the Flower
Winter Lull/Last Leaves/Winter Lull
Inca Ore/Chipiturca Eva Enmolada/Split
Max Richter/Horizon Variation/The Blue Notebook
Coco Rosie/South 2nd/Noah's Ark
Devendra Banhart/Santa Maria de Feira/Cripple Crow
Brightblack Morning Light/We Share Our Blanket With the Owl/Brightblack Morning Light
Iron& Wine/Bird Stealing Bread/The Creek Drank the Cradle
Brethren of the Free Spirit/In Him/All Things
Koen Holtkamp/Haus Un/Field Rituals
Khonnor/Daylight and Delight/Handwriting
Grouper/Tidal Wave/Dragging A Dead Deer Up a Hill
Barn Owl/Diamond Cloud/Bridge to the Clouds
Land What Land/Blood Crystals/The First Water
Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions/Clear Day/Bavarian Fruit Bread
Benoit Pioulard/Ash into the Sky/Precis
5turns25/Desert Ants/Elephant Platform
Valet/Kehaar/Naked Acid
Six Organs of Admittance/River of Transfiguration/The Sun Awakens
Emiliana Torrini/Sunnyroad/Fisherman's Woman

3.25.09

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Belong I Never Lose. Really. Really October Language
My Bloody Valentine Only Shallow Loveless
Sylvain Chauveau Fly Like A Horse Nuage
The Wooden Birds False Alarm Magnolia
Sin Fang Bous We Belong Clangour
Helios Hope Valley Hill Caesura
Mountains Telescope Choral
Grouper Tidal Wave Dragging A Dead Deer Up a Hill
Pan-American There Can Be No Thought Of Finishing White Bird Release
Sun Kil Moon Salvador Sanchez Ghosts of the Great Highway
Mazzy Star Fade Into You So Tonight That I Might See
Nouvelle Vague Killing Moon Bande A Part
Koen Holtkamp You Mean So Much To Me Fields Rituals
Deerhunter Agoraphobia Microcastle
Autumn in Halifax We Are Bears The Soft, Soft Shakes
Max Richter Horizon Variation The Blue Notebook
Skallander Forgiven Skallander
Songs of Green Pheasant The Wraith of Loving Songs of Green Pheasant
Will Bangs Dresden Mills With Hearts Crossed and Eyes Peeled
Great Lake Swimmers Pulling on a Line Lost Channels
Library Tapes Pieces of Us Were Left A Summer Beneath the Trees
Andrew Bird The Trees Were Mistaken Soldier On
Balmorhea And I Can Hear A Rustling Balmorhea
The Stranglers Golden Brown Stranglers
Deaf Center Lamp Mien Pale Ravine
Flying Saucer Attack Beach Red Lullaby Chorus
Indian Guides The Gray Indian Guides
Soundpool On High On High
Travis Flowers in the Window The Invisible Band
Airiel Kiss Me Slowly Frosted
Emiliana Torrini Sunnyroad Fisherman's Woman
Jens Lekman Into Eternity Night Falls Over Kortedala
Gael Garcia Bernal If You Rescue Me Science of Sleep
Goldmund Threnody The Malady of Elegance
July Skies See Britain By Train The Weather Clock
Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career My Maudlin Career

3.11.09 show

Mountains Choral Choral*
M83 Run Into Flowers Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost
Highspire Until the Lights Go Down Pacific Union
Pains of Being Pure At Heart Everything With You Pains of Being Pure at Heart*
Cocoanut Groove End of the Summer on Bookbinder Street *
Destroyer Introducing Angels Trouble in Dream
Park Avenue Music Norway Kitty By Hearts and Horses*
Lawrence Arabia Auckland CDB Chant Darling*
Sylvain Chauveau Pauvre Simon *
Sin Fang Bous Catch the Light Clangour*
Tim Hecker Borderlands An Imaginary Country*
Sufjan Stevens To Be Alone With You Seven Swans
Misophone Deluded and Obscene Where has it gone, all the beautiful music of our Grandparents? It died with them, that's where it went.
Animal Collective Bluish Merriweather Post Pavilion*
Riceboy Sleeps Happiness Dark Was the Night*
The Radio Dept. This Past Week This Past Week
The Books Cello Song Dark Was the Night*
Doves Kingdom of Rust Kingdom of Rust*
Mountains Map Table Choral*
Jens Lekman Sipping on the Sweet Nectar Night Falls Over Kortedala
Beirut Mimizan Dark Was the Night*
The Sunny Street Pottery and Glass *
Aphex Twin Rhubarb Selected Ambient Works II
Iron & Wine Bird Stealing Bread The Creek Drank the Cradle
Devendra Banhart Seaside Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Winter Lull Nothing to Hide Winter Lull*
Sin Fang Bous Sunken Ship Clangour*
Venice is Sinking Ryan's Song AZAR*
My Bloody Valentine What We Want Loveless
Peter Bjorn & John Object of my Affection
Will Bangs You Make My Heart Sing So Loudly *
Radiohead Planet Telex The Bends

February 25 2009 Show

-Max Richter/The Road Is A Gray Tape/24 Postcards in Full Colour*
-Idiot Pilot/Losing Colour/Strange We Should Meet Here
-The Ocean Blue/Denmark/Davy Jones' Locker
-Boat Club/Nowhere/Caught the Breeze*
-Everyday Mistakes/Voodoo Drums/Everyday Mistakes*
-Burning Hearts/Various Lives/Aboa Sleeping*
-Jens Lekman/Maple Leaves/Oh You're So Silent Jens
-The National/So Far Around the Bend/Dark Was the Night*
-Eluvium/Show Us Our Homes/Talk Amongst the Trees
-The Clientele/We Could Walk Together/Suburban Light
-The Radio Dept./A Window/Pet Grief
-N.Lannon/I Freak You Out/Chemical Friends
-Deerhunter/Agoraphobia/Microcastle
-Marine Time Keepers/Like the Whirlwind You Arrived In/A Perfect Knowledge of Dreams*
-The Meeting Places/On Our Own/Find Yourself Along the Way
-Kings of Convenience/Cayman Islands/Riot on an Empty Street
-Grouper/Tidal Wave/Dragging A Dead Deer Up a Hill
-Aphex Twin/Avril 14/Drukqs
-Sigur Ros/4/( )
-The Sight Below/At First Touch/Glider*
-Mum Smokes/At the Gate/House Music*
-Still Corners/History of Love/Remember Pepper?*
-Doves/Black and White Town/Some Cities
-Misophone/White Waves/Where has it gone, all the beautiful music of our Grandparents? It died with them, that's where it went.
-Andrew Bird/Effigy/Noble Beast*
-Mogwai/Take Me Somewhere Nice/Rock Action
-M83/Teen Angst/Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost
-Camera Obscura/My Maudlin Career/My Maudlin Career*
-July Skies/Festival of Britain/The Weather Clock
-Bark Psychosis/From What Is Said to When It's Read/Codename Dustsucker
-Doves/Kingdom of Rust/Kingdom of Rust*
-Corespondents/Drooplets/Corespondents
-Jens Lekman/Kanske är jag kär i dig/Nights Falls Over Kortedala
-Max Richter/A Sudden Manhattan of the Mind/24 Postcards in Full Colour
-Days/Downhill/Downhill*
-The Emerald Down/Red Shift/Scream the Sound