1/17/2024 0 Comments Shepard tone audio![]() *** Technically they should be described as 'self-similar' to be proper, but I'm saying they're the same for dramatic effect. Poincare described Weierstrass' work as "an outrage against common sense" and Hermite said "I turn with terror and horror from this lamentable scourge of continuous functions with no derivatives." So I think it's going well. ** Also known as the Monsters of Analysis. * I believe in Nolan's films he actually uses Risset Glissando's, the continuous version of Shepard Tones. So to sum up maths is weird and pitch is a lie. Creating this glorious auditory paradox of an ever-ascending or descending tone. The human ear tries to make sense of what it's hearing, attempting to extract a single pitch from an array of pitches/partials (timbre) that are all octaves apart but to the ear, sound similar. ![]()
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