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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We can hear with our skin in some way... This is not so surprizing...

but i am very impressed by Alain Connes thinking about primes numbers and music...

It is too complex to speak about it here...

 but please go to this short youtube  piece...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBArTv71Edk

 This is a translation of the primes in music , by a recipe Connes explain in some conference, i dont remember which one...

 The amazing fact, is that the most complex object in the universe is the prime distribution...

 Here an image  of the first part of this "object":

 

Now think about that,  each notes represent a circle in this INFINITE field without repetition...

I think in his core mathematic is music ...

I try to be friendly , perhaps you must try it instead of insulting people...

Did i ever treat you as a fool ?

NO.........

If i remember well , it is rather the opposite...

 Then...........

Proverbs 23 ;

"Dont speak to fools..."

OK!

I’ve long claimed that live music is a full body experience, while most reproduced is more heard than felt. Part of that is a matter of SPL, another is that very few hi-fi systems reproduce the bottom octave (20-40Hz) at all, let alone at the SPL produced by PA systems.

But it’s still more than THAT. At live shows I hear the enormous sound of the venue (one reason I would love to own an Eminent Technology TRW-17 Rotary woofer, for frequencies 20Hz and below. Not that most recordings contain any information that low in frequency), and feel the buildings’ structure vibrating under my boots (Tony Lamas ;-). Reproduced music is mostly an intellectual experience, at its’ best becoming an emotional one. But still not a physical one.

There’s a big difference between watching a movie and being in one. But since most recordings are made in small rooms (studios, some of which are surprisingly small), comparing recorded sound to live is like apples to oranges: they are completely different entities. The most we can hope to achieve is for reproduced voices to sound as they do in life, and the same for instruments.

Interesting posts! Thanks...

 

I will make my comment tomorrow i must sleep....  😊

 

 Good night!

 

 
 

 

 

There is so much we have yet to learn about the human senses.

When you remove clothing it often is a relaxing sensation.

Relaxation improves our receptors thus making music sound better.

Or allows us to appreciate it more.

Be open to new things!!!