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Signal To Noise (Nylund Novel)
Signal to Noise may refer to: Science and technology * Signal-to-noise ratio, a measure used in science and engineering to quantify how much a signal has been corrupted by noise ** Signal-to-noise ratio (imaging), this measure specifically in the field of imaging. Literature * ''Signal to Noise'' (comics), a 1992 graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean * ''Signal to Noise'', a 1998 cyberpunk novel by Eric S. Nylund * ''Signal to Noise'' (Sinclair novel), a 1997 cyberpunk novel by Carla Sinclair * ''Signal to Noise'' (Moreno-Garcia novel), a 2015 fantasy novel by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Music * ''Signal to Noise'' (The Rise album), a 2002 album by the band The Rise * ''Signal to Noise'' (White Willow album), a 2006 album by the Norwegian art-rock band White Willow * ''Signal to Noise'', a 2015 album by Andy Jackson * "Signal to Noise", a song from Peter Gabriel’s 2002 album '' Up'' * "Signal to Noise", a song included as a B-side from The Cure's s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signal-to-noise Ratio
Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR or S/N) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise. SNR is defined as the ratio of signal power to the noise power, often expressed in decibels. A ratio higher than 1:1 (greater than 0 dB) indicates more signal than noise. SNR, bandwidth, and channel capacity of a communication channel are connected by the Shannon–Hartley theorem. Definition Signal-to-noise ratio is defined as the ratio of the power of a signal (meaningful input) to the power of background noise (meaningless or unwanted input): : \mathrm = \frac, where is average power. Both signal and noise power must be measured at the same or equivalent points in a system, and within the same system bandwidth. Depending on whether the signal is a constant () or a random variable (), the signal-to-noise ratio for random noise becomes: : \mathrm = \frac where E refers to the expected value, i.e. in this case ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signal-to-noise Ratio (imaging)
Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is used in imaging to characterize image quality. The sensitivity of a (digital or film) imaging system is typically described in the terms of the signal level that yields a threshold level of SNR. Industry standards define sensitivity in terms of the ISO film speed equivalent, using SNR thresholds (at average scene luminance) of 40:1 for "excellent" image quality and 10:1 for "acceptable" image quality. SNR is sometimes quantified in decibels (dB) of signal power relative to noise power, though in the imaging field the concept of "power" is sometimes taken to be the power of a voltage signal proportional to optical power; so a 20 dB SNR may mean either 10:1 or 100:1 optical power, depending on which definition is in use. Definition of SNR Traditionally, SNR is defined to be the ratio of the average signal value \mu_\mathrm to the standard deviation of the signal \sigma_\mathrm: : \mathrm = \frac when the signal is an optical intensity, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signal To Noise (comics)
''Signal to Noise'' () is a graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean. It was originally serialised in the UK style magazine ''The Face (magazine), The Face'', beginning in 1989, and collected as a graphic novel in 1992, published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in the UK and by Dark Horse Comics in the US. The story follows a film-maker who suffers from a terminal illness, and imagines a last film which he will never have time to make. It examines the relationship between Apocalypse, apocalyptic imagery, and the central character's personal disaster. There have been three adaptations of the graphic novel into other media: * in 1996, Gaiman adapted his own story for a BBC radio broadcast, with music by McKean; * in 1999, a stage adaptation written by Marc Rosenbush and Robert Toombs was mounted in Chicago with Gaiman's cooperation. * in 2002, McKean adapted it into a 14-minute film, with Heathcote Williams as the director. Notes Comics by Neil Gaiman 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric S
The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse language, Proto-Norse ''*wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ainaz, aina(z)'', meaning "one, alone, unique", ''as in the form'' ''Æ∆inrikr'' explicitly, but it could also be from ''*wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aiwaz, aiwa(z)'' "everlasting, eternity", as in the Gothic form ''Euric''. The second element ''-wikt:ríkr, ríkr'' stems either from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/rīks, ríks'' "king, ruler" (cf. Gothic ''wikt:𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃, reiks'') or the therefrom derived ''*wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/rīkijaz, ríkijaz'' "kingly, powerful, rich, prince"; from the common Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Indo-European root *wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₃rḗǵs, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signal To Noise (Sinclair Novel)
''Signal to Noise'' () is a 1997 cyberpunk novel by Carla Sinclair published by Harper. This is the author's first novel; she had previously written non-fiction works. - Posted online on May 20, 2010. It is set in San Francisco. Tiffany Lee Brown, writing in ''Wired'' magazine, stated that the "cybercultural parody" reflects "distinctive perspective on the foibles of the wired life" and "caricatures" people in the San Francisco technology environment. According to the author she took seven months to create the initial draft before selling it to the publisher, which asked for a substantial rewrite within a two-month period; the publishers stated a dislike of the, in Sinclair's words, "too clichéd" criminal characters. Sinclair stated that the rewrite affected about 66% of the book. She did the rewrite during a pregnancy. Sinclair stated that she included elements she noticed in real life and that she "enjoyed" writing scenes portraying violence, citing an increase in adrenaline, rat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signal To Noise (Moreno-Garcia Novel)
''Signal to Noise'' is an urban fantasy novel by Canadian-Mexican author Silvia Moreno-Garcia. The novel was published by Solaris Books in February 2015. Moreno-Garcia stated that she was inspired to write the novel based on her parents, who both worked at a radio station. Plot In 2009, Mercedes "Meche" Vega returns to Mexico City to attend the funeral of her DJ father. While there she reminisces about her life in the city in 1988 when she was fifteen and how she accidentally discovered, along with her best friends Sebastian and Daniela, that she could perform spells by listening to songs. 1988 Plot In 1988, Meche discovers how to use music to cast magic spells. She invites her friends, Sebastián and Daniela to join her in casting spells to help them achieve their dreams. All 3 of them are outsiders at their school. Meche is the weird girl who is only interested in music. Sebastián is a bookworm who is bullied by the other boys in school. His family doesn't have a lot of mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signal To Noise (The Rise Album)
''Signal to Noise'' is the first full-length album by The Rise, released in 2002. The album combines electronic beats with post-hardcore music, much like Refused did with their 1998 album, the prophetically titled, ''The Shape of Punk to Come''. It was re-released in 2005 on ReIgnition Recordings. Critical reception ''Stylus Magazine'' wrote that "it’s extremely refreshing to see a heavy band that actually cares a little bit about their dynamics and sound textures as opposed to just wanting to hit the listener over the head with E chords." ''The Austin Chronicle'' called the album "stellar," and likened it to "Atari Teenage Riot with real songs." ''CMJ New Music Report CMJ Holdings Corp. is a music events and online media company, originally founded in 1978, which ran a website, hosted an annual festival in New York City, and published two magazines, ''CMJ New Music Monthly'' and ''CMJ New Music Report''. Th ...'' wrote that "by toying with instrumentation that traditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signal To Noise (White Willow Album)
''Signal to Noise'' is the fifth studio album by the Norwegian progressive rock band White Willow. This is the first White Willow album to feature Trude Eidtang on vocals. Track listing # "Night Surf" (Holm-Lupo) – 4:12 # "Splinters" (Holm-Lupo) – 8:36 # "Ghosts" (Frøislie, Holm-Lupo, Walthinsen) – 5:48 # "Joyride" (Holm-Lupo) – 4:18 # "The Lingering" (Holm-Lupo) – 9:25 # "The Dark Road" (Holm-Lupo) – 4:17 # "Chrome Dawn" (Holm-Lupo) – 7:12 # "Dusk City" (Holm-Lupo, Walthinsen) – 6:05 # "Ararat" (Holm-Lupo) – 1:35 Personnel * Trude Eidtang – vocals * Jacob Holm-Lupo – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, sitar, E-bow, keyboards * Lars Fredrik Frøislie – Hammond organ, mellotron, synthesizer, electric piano, clavinet, grand piano * Marthe Berger Walthinsen – bass, cymbal * Aage Moltke Schou – drums, percussion, glockenspiel * Ketil Vestrum Einarsen – woodwind * Brynjar Dambo – engineer (flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Jackson (recording Engineer)
Andy Jackson is a British recording engineer, best known for his work with the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He was (until 2022) also the owner and operator of Tube Mastering, a private studio specializing in recorded music mastering. Career Originally trained in the profession at Utopia Studios, Jackson began work as an engineer for Pink Floyd in 1980, assisting in the recording of the performances of ''The Wall'' at Earls Court. He then worked on the film soundtrack recordings for ''Pink Floyd – The Wall'' and the studio album '' The Final Cut''. Jackson became the band's primary engineer beginning with ''A Momentary Lapse of Reason'' and then ''The Division Bell'' plus the material recorded for the soundtrack to the band's 1992 auto racing documentary film ''La Carrera Panamericana''. He was also the Front of House engineer on the band's 1994 world tour. He was producer of Pink Floyd's final studio album ''The Endless River''. His current primary responsibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up (Peter Gabriel Album)
''Up'' (2002) is the seventh studio and 13th album overall released by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It is his most recent full-length studio album of new original material to date, as the subsequent albums ''Scratch My Back'' and '' New Blood'' feature covers of other artists' songs, and orchestral renderings of Gabriel's older material, respectively. Background Gabriel started work on the album in the spring of 1995. He and engineer Richard Chappell travelled between different locations during the initial writing stages of the album using a portable setup (recording at Real World Studios in between): the first two months were spent in a rented chalet in Méribel, then three months in Senegal starting in October 1995, followed by another trip to Méribel in Spring 1996 and a brief recording stint on a friend's recording-studio-equipped boat along the Amazon in Summer 1997. From then on, the rest of the album work was based at Real World Studios, where further writing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cut Here
"Cut Here" is a song by English rock band The Cure, released as a single in October 2001 from their best-of compilation ''Greatest Hits'' released the same year. Content Cure frontman Robert Smith wrote the song in memory of his friend Billy Mackenzie, the lead singer of the new wave band Associates, who committed suicide in 1997. The title of the song does not relate directly to the lyrical content; it is an anagram of "The Cure". Regarding its musical style, AllMusic wrote that the song "rises with early sounds of Madchester". Release The track was released as a single from the band's 2001 ''Greatest Hits'' compilation, reaching number 54 on the UK Singles Chart. It is the band's last release for record label Fiction. The song was re-recorded later in 2001 for the band's ''Acoustic Hits'' release, which contains eighteen re-recordings of previous songs by the band using acoustic guitars and was only released as a limited edition bonus disc to said greatest hits album. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Distance Over Time
''Distance Over Time'' is the fourteenth studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released on February 22, 2019, and the band's first release on Inside Out Music. ''Distance over Time'' was announced alongside a tour of North America during which Dream Theater would support the new album and celebrate the 20th anniversary of its fifth studio album, '' Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory'' (1999). On December 7, 2018, the lead single "Untethered Angel" and its music video were released. The second single, "Fall into the Light", was released on January 11, 2019. The third single, "Paralyzed", and its accompanying video were released on February 8, 2019. It is the band's most successful album chart-wise to date, taking top 10 positions in 19 countries (including going to number one in Germany and Switzerland). Background and composition Musically, Dream Theater decided to create a "tight and focused" album with a heavier sound than its previous album, ''The A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |