Monthly Archives: July 2017
At the limit of hearing
The French otolaryngologist, Alfred Tomatis, was the first to systematically investigate the effect on the human psyche of high-frequency sounds.
According to his theory, a child, floating in an amniotic fluid during fetal development, hears a lot of sounds that become unavailable to him after birth – the mother’s breath, the beating of her heart, voice, the noise from the work of internal organs, etc. Continue reading
Sounds that do not exist
Let’s listen to a tape recording of sacred music – Tibetan monks or Gregorian singing. If you listen, you can hear how the voices merge, forming one pulsating tone.
This is one of the most interesting effects inherent in some musical instruments and a chorus of people singing in about the same key — the formation of beats. When voices or instruments converge in unison, the beats slow down, and when they diverge, they accelerate. Continue reading
3D sound
Your ears emit sounds! Right now, your ears emit a variety of high-definition sounds. This recent discovery gave birth to science listening to the ears. “Amazing!” – this is how Dr. William Brownel describes this fact from the medical faculty of Johns Hopkins University. His colleague said: “This is as amazing as if your nose was radiating odors.”
The sounds produced by the ears help you understand speech, as well as determine the direction from which the sound is coming. Continue reading
