Traditional / experimental practice

Chakra · Spark · A Sound Appears

A crystal bowl tuned to 126.22 Hz appears at intervals: it swells with a very soft onset, lasts a short while and slowly fades, with only light room air in between. Listen to each sound's birth and fading. A listening practice.

2 minNo headphones neededEvidence level S: Soundscape, no claim

Liner notes

Bed: Brown noise, Pink noise
Body: Drone · 63.11 Hz
Strikes: Crystal bowl · 126.22 Hz
What do you hear?: swelling

4 layers, 3 sound engines; generated on this device every time it plays.

How is this sound made?

Bell−17.5 dB
Crystal bowl · 126.22 Hz, 4 strikes
Drone−29.5 dB
Drone · root 63.11 Hz
Brown noise−50 dB
Pink noise−60 dB

Reverb: hall, 30% mix

In the room you can listen to each layer on its own, change its settings and save it as your own recipe.

Sound is generated on this device in real time; no files are downloaded from a server. There is a 3 s fade-in at the start and a 0 min fade-out at the end.

Compare with another sound

Hear both at the same loudness; drag the slider to the middle and they blend.

Mixed in the middle, the partials of these two sounds would create an unlabelled beat (4-40 Hz): the slider crosses the middle with a short crossfade.

B: neighbours on the map

Another sound

What do we know, what don't we know?

S · Soundscape, no claim

No health or mental-effect claim at all; it is simply a soundscape.

This session isn't linked to any claim of effect.

A session's level is the weakest of its linked claims; it is never raised by a strong but unrelated claim.

Its neighbours on the map

The five sounds closest to this one by measured sound features.

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