- https://youtu.be/9j9bVl3rfNk?t=29 In The Defenders, repeated piano note transitions into background music.
- https://youtu.be/isZyX1xd1VQ?t=159 (The Great American Nightmare - Rob Zombie)
- https://youtu.be/pU_mZ1X69Ho?t=364 (Out of Control - Miraculix)
- Justice League the movie where the song "Everybody Knows" transitions into the ambulance siren. Sorry I can't find this footage.
- the chant in The Dark Knight Rises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXxw-zXRqOs&t=130s
Probably a lot of variations in musicals, but most will be mundane.
I'm not sure whether I should thank you or curse you. Let's see what my 6yo says.
The article reminds me of Pepe's Burningman operas from the mid 90s... "Devil's Delight, The Fire Tonight" blended into "Devils Do Light The Fire Tonight""
- https://youtu.be/IXdNnw99-Ic (Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd)
I’d start with his Big Sun record. Listen to ‘Birds, Pt. 1’ and you’ll get it right away.
He also does these compositions he calls “ultrascores” where he’s composing to scenes from TV shows. Here’s one he did for The Wire:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bV1lY1UsEng&pp=ygUQQ2hhc3NvbCB...
John Cage - 4'33" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4
Waves on the shore transitioning into song: Luke the calf - Iona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLx2bKdQIJA - though I'm not sure that one counts as the waves are all through to the end.
tbh I'm not sure which notes they're referring to here. There are a couple overlapping high/low pairs in that segment, and I'm not sure which is the octave/those frequencies.
One seems like higher is more in my left, but it clearly follows the left speaker on my headphones. The others warble around for me, though I'm pretty strongly right handed.
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Even after reading and listening to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_illusion I'm totally lost as to what this post or wikipedia are describing. Are people hearing like:
left ear right ear
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high (nothing in right ear)
low
high
low
left ear central right ear
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high low low
low low high
high low low
low low high
Maybe worth mentioning: I've had a hearing test in the past year and I'm essentially completely balanced, so there likely isn't a tone-deafness issue on one side that could cause a reception imbalance. Could the illusion just be hearing damage? And then handedness just follows which ear takes more damage due to more noisy things happening / less protection on that side? That could also explain why left-handed people are less strongly sided, as they're forced to do things more balanced due to right-hand-only stuff existing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMMsK9rjBWo
But I heard the lower tone in the middle of my head and higher tone bouncing from left to right. Not the "low on one side, high on the other side" article mentioned.
Kinda interesting to think some people might hear completely different thing in same song...
But, sorry, I don’t buy it. I am aware of the talking piano effect, but even the wiki page [0] says it’s a vocoder, which is something entirely different.
Similar to other commenters here [1], I don’t hear the pattern described for the octave effect either.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Rock_(song)https://en....
[1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/52t5WCspFuFkow374P88wA (but also Ep 1 and 3).
As opposed to, say, Mark Rober's talking piano.
Com Truise - Fairlight
I wouldn't call this an illusion as much as an interesting effect. Put on a good pair of headphones and listen to the intro at moderately high volume. There's a buzzing note in there that seems to resonate in a way that feels like it's coming from inside your head or maybe even your throat.
-- by chatgpt
If starting here, I hear a loop that starts with fast notes and then has a silence. (warning: loud) https://youtu.be/RdVEQbWjaTE?t=91
If starting a few seconds earlier, the previous melody seems to fuse with the part that starts at 1:30, and it sounds different, like a bit slower. (warning: loud) https://youtu.be/RdVEQbWjaTE?t=80
Not sure if that makes sense, hopefully some one else also hears both versions! I'm assuming it may have to do with interpreting the last note of the loop as part of the next one, but it could be something else too. It really is a brainwash :P
One of my favourite comments on Youtube I saw was on some RATATAT song (probably Wildcat?), AFAIR:
"Those guitars are definitely trying to tell me something. I can't get a word but they do sing!"
And if you enjoy Daft Punk but never heard of RATATAT then you def should try, first albums for a more raw and hard sound, later ones for more electronic sound.
So when I cant hear the high-pitched tinnitus squeal (very low volume, but still hear it) - there is something weird that happens which is that I can "hear" some sort of radio station - which plays music in the really faintest and far away sounding volume...
The other thing that happens, is that when laying in bed, attempting to sleep - there are times that when the house makes a "creak" sound of settling or whatever (you know how your wall may 'pop' or 'creak' at times - but the weird thing is that it simultaneously coincides with a pop and a flinch of my body, or 'sound' in my head.
There are times when this happens and I get a bright flash in my closed-eyes...
Anyone know what this is? Sodium defficiency? or aliens?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_xRb0x9aw&t=176s Now go and install: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/soundfixer/ and set output to mono and replay it.
That’s just what happens to the surround channel in audio tracks produced using Dolby Stereo, when, as you say, they are naively mixed to mono. This happens all the time.
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-mexican-lucky-and-w...
I wonder how many people knew the correct lyrics before this commercial, I certainly did not
"Rob a Mexican" etc
At least get the original works correct.
Please tell us more.
sorry for botching the explanation, i have never studied music.
I like Daft Punk, but I, and they, I'm sure, never described themselves as such. It's worth addressing this sentence, it being an early sentence.
THIS is a talking piano: https://youtu.be/muCPjK4nGY4
This article has a decent recreation of the left and right synths in Aerodynamic. It does not include the center sound though.
https://reverbmachine.com/blog/daft-punk-discovery-synth-sou...
There is no shephard tone running in the background, that's a phaser effect running over an otherwise plain pad playing chords.
You can hear from 2:52 to 2:55 it's descending and from 2:56 to 2:59 it's rising. Descending again at 3:00 to 3:03 and etc.
Here's a video of someone replicating that phaser fx tone very well. Though they use it in the guitar solo. Listen to the resonant sweep that seems to be in the background, it's a phaser on the guitar.
Well, the audio area is full of masters and experts. I make no claim to be an expert, so you can ignore this writing as you prefer.
Here is better video for that illusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMMsK9rjBWo
I've heard of an effect where brain synthesises lower tone from the higher harmonics, might that be reason why I hear the low tone in both ears at once?
Yesterday I was working on a bass drum beat, and after adding some synths playing on top of it, I started to hear the bass drum echo. So, my first thought was I had accidentally enabled some kind of reverb or echo effect on it while I was setting up the synths. After confirming I hadn't and isolated the track to ensure the bass drum was sounding as intended, I chalked it up to some weird illusion between the synths and drum that was making it sound like an echo. I know it's not there in reality, but I can't unhear it.
In this case, I went back and added a little echo to the drum to make the effect intentional, which turned out to sound good, but sometimes I'll try to make the illusion reality and it doesn't have the same effect.
Would you be willing to export that track as two tracks--one with drums and one with synth? Then listen to them solo, then run them together (with WAV files instead of instrumentation)? Would be neat to have that illusion confirmed rather than it being a DAW artifact.
1. Play a pure saw wave sound for several seconds, it has to be loud (use headphones), then
2. hit the keyboard keys, or snap your fingers, or make other sounds with fast transients, and the transient is no longer snappy, it "whooshes". It's hard to describe but there is like a flanging effect on it.
I guess there is some scientific name for this phenomenon, but I don't know what.
A common thing to do is to pan a synth to one side, then add a very short (milliseconds) delay panned to the other side, which makes it sound like a very large sound played from a large distance away.
Another is stacking up a bunch of oscillators that are slightly detuned from each other, which again, makes the sound "big", because it sounds like many sources playing together, rather than one source.
Just using a "reverb" is generating an illusion of being in a large, echo-y space.
I do think that most producers don't really think of it as creating illusions, and more as making "cool" sounds.
I read about it on Hacker News, and then later realized I had it... and now I can't un-hear it!
I also hear music when there's white noise around me (white noise maker machines or a showerhead). That one is called Musical Ear Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_ear_syndrome
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EDIT HOLY FN SHIT:
>* A similar occurrence is seen with strokes of the visual cortex where a visual field defect occurs and the brain conjures a piece of visual data to fill the spot. *
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When I turned 45 (I am 48) - I began seeing "floaters"
Could micro-floaters in vison (in my right eye) perhaps indicate micro-strokes? or future-strokes...
I am serious - need to look into this.
Also perhaps most famously: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lucille-ball-fillings-spie...
ALSO - eveyone should checkout mynoise.net
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Yes!
This literally usally happens right on the cusp of falling asleep...
I equated it to what I had read a long time ago that "in order for one to fall asleep the body shuts down the sensory systems, and the last one to turn off prior to sleep is hearing"
So I thought that it was caused by the creaks hitting my ears at time of turning asleep -- but it happens when even I am not fully asleep.
But the body twitches really freak me out. I'll basically hit 'asleep' and Ill have a flash in my internal vision (white light looking like an iris of an eye is best way to say it) - and a full body twitch, it jolts me back awake.
The morbid thought in my head is that this may be associated with sleep apnia and my body twitching back 'alaive' after stopping breathing ; however - this happens when I am not even fully asleep...
So I am at a loss - I presume it is a vitamin defficiency, so I just bout some multi-Vs this week...
The funky/disco/french house era was particularly prolific with sampling though.
Which means it should disappear or produce a third tone if it wasn't an exact doubling. I haven't hunted down a sample to test though.
Hypnic jerk is my thing, and im male - and have all the halmarks such as chronic insomnia, but just started melatonin.
But wow - yeah it scares the heck out of me, yet the wiki says "benign" so that is thankful...
A morbid dark, intrusive thought that has happened to me when these occur is that my heart stopped due to sleep apnia and that I was startling myself back alive...
however these occur even when I am not yet asleep and in twilight mode.
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SIDS ;;
This reminds me of what the believe the cause of SIDS to be: a pocket of co2 around the infants breathing-bubble where they are just recirculating the CO2.
So, I wonder if the infants dont yet have the ability to startle themselves back awake... but adults do.
I have had two people close to me who have had SDIS babies, and its horrifying.
A small crib fan may prevent CO2 bubbles...
Like sleight-of-hand, you know it's there but you can't quite discern it at the time and are gladly surprised by it but you know it's not real magic.
Both are quite clear about different ears hearing different things, and hearing two or more tones.
>There is one octave between the tones. If the alternation is short enough, you will hear the higher tone in one ear and the lower in the other.
No changes. Handedness of sounds that already exist.