In 1991, Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist with the National Resources Defense Council and one of the country's leading experts on recycling, proposed the development of an environmentally sound, technologically advanced de-inking and pulp-manufacturing plant (in other words, a paper mill) in New York City.
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.
This New York-based collective of modern-dance performers and choreographers will present three new works, one of which, by Gina Graham, makes use of speaker trees that manipulate footfall sounds technologically.
Electronic music technology has a long history of blurring the line between toys and serious music-making gear: pocket-sized synthesizers with studio-quality sounds, technologically advanced keyboards disguised as something aimed at kindergarteners, and video games that not only teach the basics of digital production but have also ended up on more than a few actual releases.
In the 1980s and '90s, FAO programs for sustainable agriculture and rural development emphasized strategies that were economically feasible, environmentally sound, and technologically appropriate to the skill level of the host country.
Sam Phillips's "slapback" delay treatment of Elvis Presley's voice, Phil Spector's distinctive use of the echo chamber, and the extraordinary innovations produced by digital sampling illustrate how seemingly "natural" sounds are technologically effected in the composition of popular music.
"From the beverage viewpoint, it is easy to buy a technologically sound wine, just as it is orange juice.
But officials within Napster say the record labels have made the policing sound much more technologically feasible than it is.
Increasingly, development agencies assert that technologically sound, engineering-based projects are failing because they don't take sufficient account of the cultural context.
The Japan Petroleum Exploration Company, a joint venture of Japanese trading companies and oil field developers, said its plan to build a natural gas pipeline from Sakhalin to Tokyo was economically and technologically sound.
A major weakness of past public health programming has been providing people with technologically sound and useful interventions without taking into full account the social, cultural and behavioral factors that influence acceptance and use of the interventions".
