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I played a piece by Maryanne Amacher to a bunch of YouTubers and filmed their reactions. Insane stuff!

Listen to the full album that “Chorale” is off of! (It starts at 51:25)

Maryanne Amacher ‎– Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear) - 1999

https://vimeo.com/88559973

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I played a piece by Maryanne Amacher to a bunch of YouTubers and filmed their reactions. Insane stuff! Listen to the full album that “Chorale” is off of! (It starts at 51:25) Maryanne Amacher ‎– Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear) - 1999 https://vimeo.com/88559973 Thanks to #Thomann for flying me out to German for #TGU19, and thanks to Pete Thorn, Mary Spender, Paul Davids, samuraiguitarist, Jayme Lewis (The Bassist), Nathan Navarro and Patrick Hunter for reacting to weird music. Clinical usage of Otoacoustic Emissions https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/63/1/223/377500 Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614374/ Interview with Maryanne Amacher NEW MUSIC USA https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/extremities-maryanne-amacher-in-conversation-with-frank-j-oteri/ Bill Dietz & Robert The — Maryanne Amacher Archive: Proposed: Creation of a VR Character M.A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3BObKceqJE Difference tone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AYlsLNTjrc (⌐■_■) ⦿ Adam Neely T-shirts! ⦿ https://teespring.com/stores/adam-neely-merchandise ⦿ SUPPORT ME ON PATREON ⦿ http://www.patreon.com/adamneely ⦿ FOLLOW ME ON THE INTERNETS ⦿ http://www.facebook.com/adamneely http://www.instagram.com/its_adamneely ⦿ Check out some of my music ⦿ http://sungazermusic.bandcamp.com http://insideoutsidemusic.bandcamp.com http://adamneelymusic.bandcamp.com Peace, Adam

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Kenny Jacobson

Next video: "The 7 Levels of Jazz Harmony Using Amacher's 'Chorale 1' ".

Tom Loredo

This was so cool! I can't imagine any other YouTuber producing something like this, simultaneously fun, intellectually stimulating, and wonder-inducing. I wonder how much of this is really due to nonlinearity and due to ear physiology. Mathematically, the (linear!) sum of sinusoids with two frequencies f1 and f2 is exactly the same as a single sinusoid at the higher frequency f1+f2, modulated in amplitude by a sinusoid at the lower frequency |f1-f2| (if you ever took a trig class, you learned this as an identity). Mathematically, it's just a matter of interpretation whether you think of it as two superposed sine waves, or one amplitude-modulated sine wave. Perceptually, I suspect there are different regimes where our brains prefer one interpretation to the other. And in a normal musical setting, where no two sources are ever perfectly in tune and coherent (so you never really have two perfect sinusoids summing), I would guess the brain would make the "two pitches" interpretation. Does the composition use coherent sources for the music, or is it performed on instruments? —Tom (with my "day job" astronomer/statistician/signal processing expert hat on)