Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘sound’

Visualizing Sound Waves With Fire

Cool physics experiment: The Rubens’ Tube

Evelyn Glennie: How To Listen To Music With Your Whole Body

I’ve written about Evelyn Glennie before but wouldn’t you rather hear it come straight from the source?

Sound Journal: Ringing

Last week I mentioned creating a sound journal as part of a listening practice and to improve your aural intelligence. So I thought it would be a good idea to give some examples of how to do this by keeping a public diary of sound. Hopefully, this will be good for both of us.
Today, I [...]

The Sound of Stars (Audio)

Like musical instruments, stars can produce notes through their vibrations. Here you can listen to some of the ghostly whistling, drumming, humming, and rumbling sounds that stars make.
Have a listen to the hypnotic drone of HR3831 or the celestial drumming of Xi-hydrae. It will blow your mind! read more.

Hearing and Consciousness

From Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain
Hearing is the first sense we develop in the womb. The regions of the brain that deal with hearing are the first to finish the developmental process called myelination, in which the connecting “wires” of neurons are finished off with fatty sheaths that insulate the neurons, [...]

Deafness Is Poorly Understood

“Hearing is basically a specialized form of touch. Sound is simply vibrating air which the ear picks up and converts to electrical signals, which are then interpreted by the brain.” -Evelyn Glennie

The Golden Mean in Harmony Part 1

If you ride chaos all the way out to its edge, you find beauty and order… and the Blues
Chaos: complete disorder and confusion; behavior so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions; the formless matter supposed to have existed before the creation of the universe.
Chaos theory: The branch [...]