by Sharon Carne | Nov 20, 2010 | Music Room
“Sound is like air. It is always there. We breathe air all the time and hardly ever notice it. We naturally assume that we listen with our ears. The fact is we listen with our entire body. We listen from the inside out all the time. We just aren’t aware of...
by Sharon Carne | Sep 4, 2010 | Music Room
Last week I talked about how sound travels and about how sound travels through your body. Some of these sounds are beneficial and some are not. Do you know how to tell the difference? Here is an experiment that offers you a physical experience of two contrasting...
by Edward Carne | Jul 25, 2010 | Science Room
It has long been a focus of scientific research to decode the language of dolphins. Having a brain about the same size as a human being, it is believed that learning how to understand their language will give us an opportunity to communicate with another species...
by Sharon Carne | Jul 24, 2010 | Music Room
A few months ago, I shared with you a video of the great vocalist, Bobby McFerrin, demonstrating how easy it is for people to predict a melody created with the pentatonic scale. It was one of the special moments of the World Science Festival in 2009. The brain...
by Sharon Carne | Jun 12, 2010 | Music Room |
In last week’s blog, I described aspects of the field of psychoacoustics in general. This blog focuses more specifically on applied psychoacoustics. The term, applied psychoacoustics has been used to describe music that has been created using psychoacoustic knowledge...
