Listen with your skin.


So today it was a little too warm upstairs where my main system is.
I took off my shirt. That’s better. Hey…wait a minute does the music sound a tiny bit different? Better even?

Well it seems the answer could be YES.

There’s been scientific testing of the skin’s contribution to hearing. Not sure if it applies to listening to music, but it’s worth us subjectively testing it.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/skin-hearing-airflow-puff-sound-perception/

I can see it now. We’ll be able to recognize each other at the next
big audio fair. We’ll be the guys wearing a bathing suit and flip flops.

 

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Now imagine this :

With over a million essential moving parts, the
auditory receptor organ, or cochlea, is the most
complex mechanical apparatus in the human
body”
Hudspeth, A.J. 1985. The cellular basis of hearing: The biophysics of hair cells. Science

 

Do you think with those deluded "objectivist" for example who tought that few electrical measures on some component specs will make us able to predict how we perceive some musical sound qualities ?

😊

 

This one made us think ...

What is the acoustic of a piano ?

 

“. . . it is not surprising that it was possible to
put a man on the Moon before the acoustics of
a traditional instrument like the piano has been
thoroughly explained”
A. Askenfelt, in The Acoustics of the Piano,
Publ. of the Royal Swedish Academy of
Music, 1990.

The largest organ in your body is your skin and it happens to cover your ears all the way down to the eardrums. I can see how reverting to using your organs as originally intended can be a very positive attribute with better results than how you've been listening fully clothed. 

It's way too easy and tempting to pooh-pooh such a thought without thinking it through. It's the nature of our times. Think of how much better you feel walking barefoot on some cool patch of grass, stopping to scrunch your toes into it. Same thing. Nothing new age or hippy-dippy about it.

All the best,
Nonoise