This series presents a variety of fascinating psychoacoustic phenomena and illusions.
We will cover 42 of them, with examples and explanations along the way. See if they work on you!
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Series playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL618khw0A-t51dsZ8DQK5fYkwrowtFYKn
Index to Part 2:
0:12 - bone conduction
1:06 - stapedius muscle / acoustic reflex
3:19 - repetition pitch
4:01 - phasing/flanging
5:17 - Wason effect
8:23 - chalkboard scraping
9:27 - stereo salesman trick
10:30 - McGurk effect
11:36 - masking and phonemic restoration
Lacinato ABX testing tool (mac/win/linux): http://lacinato.com/cm/software/othersoft/abx
"20dB" claim re: stapedius: Borg, Erik, and S. Allen Counter. “The Middle-Ear Muscles.” Scientific American, vol. 261, no. 2, 1989, pp. 74–81., www.jstor.org/stable/24987364
3D model of the inner ear from this great project:
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018297
https://zenodo.org/record/1473724
https://blog.medel.pro/openear-3d-temporal-bone-model-library/
Licensed under: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This video was made in Reaper and Blender, with final editing/compositing done in Davinci Resolve. Some custom software was written to generate various tones and such, and this was done in JSFX in Reaper.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBMli2YAR8k
The Horsenecks play Down by the Riverside by Uncle Dave Macon at Pandaland, 2015-02-27
Thanks to Dana Hubanks for the camera assist!
https://www.youtube.com/user/danah2008/videos
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6zMAqTW5k4
Writing a melody, from start to finish -- Where do you start? Let's compose one together!
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Audio, MIDI, and sheet music of the melody composed in this video: http://caseyconnor.org/music/melodywriting
I'm working on a full course in basic music theory! Subscribe if you'd like to hear about it when it is finished. It's going to be a while, still, so don't hold your breath. :-)
0:25 intro
0:57 how to start, noodling in a scale/key
3:36 starting with the tonic triad
5:02 thinking rhythmically
6:18 ideas/concepts/games
7:31 chord progressions
7:54 nkoda
9:19 playing against the chords
11:01 extending the melody/chord idea
12:45 repetition as a melodic tool
14:19 intentional scale violation
15:01 re-writing familiar melodies as a compositional tool
16:12 other tips (getting distance, community, dynamics)
18:29 pep talk for unsatisfied composers
19:30 finished melody with real instruments
22:00 passing the tip jar
22:14 course announcement
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLIrjjklq_s
This series presents a variety of fascinating psychoacoustic phenomena and illusions.
We will cover 42 of them, with examples and explanations along the way. See if they work on you!
Donation links: http://lacinato.com/donate | http://patreon.com/lacinato
Series playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL618khw0A-t51dsZ8DQK5fYkwrowtFYKn
Index to Part 5:
0:13 - localization
5:10 - stereo widening
5:57 - sound mirrors/ranging
6:49 - consonance calibration effect
8:13 - stretch tuning
9:23 - headphone pitch-shift effect
Acoustic Location and Sound Mirrors by Douglas Self: http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/ear/ear.htm
Head 3D model source: head source: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/simple-asaro-head-fd74ad764a4e4619b72733316dc574b4
Owl 3D model source: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/owl-f54db6b8e26f427b9ba93ca993dc234a
Ear 3D model source: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/ear-delicate-8b957a9a8cdd49a29dfa78976c1680df
This video was made in Reaper and Blender, with final editing/compositing done in Davinci Resolve. Some custom software was written to generate various tones and such, and this was done in JSFX in Reaper.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQNsCg4z6L8
Playlist for entire series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiW8gzBGz1A&list=PL618khw0A-t51dsZ8DQK5fYkwrowtFYKn
Donation links: http://lacinato.com/donate | http://patreon.com/lacinato
The full Lucier Effect video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBtaG8eQG2s
Alvin Lucier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Lucier
Lucier's "I am Sitting in a Room": http://www.lovely.com/titles/cd1013.html
There are versions online. I'm not sure if these are sanctioned by the publisher; let me know if not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxHlLK3Oyk
Quotation is from: Alvin Lucier, 'Careful listening is more important than making sounds happen: The propagation of sound in space' (c. 1979), in Lucier, Reflections: Interviews, Scores, Writings (Cologne: MusikTexte, 1995) 430-38
Huun Huur Tu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0djHJBAP3U
Batzorig Vaanchig: https://www.youtube.com/c/BatzorigVaanchig
Anna-Maria Hefele: https://www.youtube.com/c/AnnaMariaHefele
Doom Eternal Theme (let me know if this is an inappropriate link to post): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WnP1wKxW4M
(effect begins at 4:20)
Index to Part 6:
0:00 Intro
0:27 Lucier Effect
3:02 Delayed Speech Trick
4:00 Pitch and Rhythm Circularity
5:57 Overtone Singing
6:55 Melodica Intermodulation
10:20 Sawtooth Habituation Effect
13:05 Moving in a Stereo Field
14:55 Doom Eternal / Mick Gordon Effect
17:45 Outro
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLcqQOJmnio
For some reason it reminded me of a harpsichord, and for some reason that reminded me of Strasbourg.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMeNRUHFtb8