You'll want to revise your definition, as a guitar,
a trumpet, your voice, and my computer can all make
sound at a 1000Hz frequency.
yup, not a single 1000 Hz 'note' though, that's what I meant... when
describing a sound by giving a single Hz frequency, it actually
doesn't describe much at all, except a single sinusoidal pressure
wave. the voice and the trumpet contains an incredible layered mix of
frequencies that makes it a 'voice' and not a 1000 Hz sound... the
computer comes closer to having a 'pure' 1000 Hz sound, though the
'system noize' adds all sorts of nice goodies to enrich the lives of
people seeking to improve the S/N ratio.
I think the practice of describing a cell as "emitting a 1000 Hz sound
... that is beautiful" is a bizarre contrast of scientific
reductionism and a lack of poetic imagination.
(just the banal limitations of a typically reductive scientific system
for describing the world around us...)
In the end, I'd rather hear the recording, made with a goat-hair
nano-mike, pressed on vinyl on a wax-paper-and-cup speaker system....
cheers
jh
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