Re: [microsound] Binaural Beats

[jim altieri <jim@xxxxxxxxx>]

on 1/1/04 3:30 AM, Kerry Uchida at kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Many artists have experimented with sound and acoustic
> spaces.  Pump a 1kHz tone into any environment and walk
> around and notice how the tone changes in volume,
> timbre and possibly pitch.  Pump a 1kHz tone and a 5kHz
> tone into a room and again see what happens.  Fun
> and often.......Uncontrollable!

for those of you who haven't heard them yet, check out these pieces in this
vein (that is, the vein of using sound wave interference patterns):

matrix for room, by ryoji ikeda
velocities crossing in phase space, by alvin lucier

revolutionary stuff, in my opinion.

-jim

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