AmbientSound
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 Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:38 am Post subject: |
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I think they seem rather harmless. All they are is a tone in one ear and a tone in the other ear that is slightly higher or lower than the first. This creates a "wobble" effect in the listener's brain, which is essentially a third frequency, being a product of the other two via their interference pattern. It is this interference pattern that the two hemespheres of the brain try to attune to.
Now music, on the other hand, is a whole different ball game, because not only are you playing with (usually 12) different tones, you are also playing with their sequence, how they relate to each other, and how all of that that relates to your perception. This phenomenon, along with timbre (a word describing the quality/type of sound an instrument produces) is something I don't think humanity fully understands. That is why when you learn about the rules of music, they call it 'music theory.' I studied music as an undergraduate. We know that certain things sound "good" and others sound "bad" but a lot of it is subjective. On the other hand, there are a lot of things in nature (listen to the birds, for example) which hint that we are on the right track.
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