Binaural Beats

["Kingsley Ash" <kingsley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Has anyone come across these before? Briefly, it involves playing one
frequency into one ear (through headphones) and a very slightly different
one into the other ear. Then, just as when the signals combine in the air to
form a beating effect, the brain combines the two signals and produces its
own beating effect. There is no real physical effect as it is all purely in
the mind and it can apparently be used for enhancing certain brain functions
as well as investigating the hearing system and the brain. Could be an
interesting one to investigate in the context of a piece of microsound-type
music....?

If you want to experience binaural beating there is a good online experiment
that is looking into the effect at www.brainexperiment.com

Maybe you find it interesting?
Kingsley

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