Cool physics experiment: The Rubens' Tube Watch on YouTube: Visualizing Sound Waves With Fire … [Read more...]
Evelyn Glennie: How To Listen To Music With Your Whole Body
Hat tip to Beyond Bass Camp and Steve Lawson for finding this one. I've written about Evelyn Glennie before but wouldn't you rather hear it come straight from the source? Watch now: Evelyn Glennie: How To Listen To Music With Your Whole Body … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [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 … [Read more...]
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. Read more from Evelyn Glennie. Evelyn managed to distinguish the … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]