Traditional / experimental practice

Unseen Creatures · The Humpback's Song

A humpback whale sings a series of sounds lasting 7-30 minutes, then repeats the same series with considerable precision: a song. Here, two shortened songs: the themes always in the same order, while the number of phrases in a theme varies. The pitch and shape of the units are representative. Not a recording: a representative synthesis built from the measurements in the sources. There is no claim of any effect.

5 minNo headphones neededEvidence level S: Soundscape, no claim

The same recipe with another seed: the raindrops, the order of the birds or the path of the chords change; the rules and evidence level stay the same.

Liner notes

Bed: Underwater
Strikes: Call
What do you hear?: dark · busy

2 layers, 2 sound engines; generated on this device every time it plays.

How is this sound made?

Underwater−34 dB
Underwater · twilight zone (ambient sound generated on your device)
Call−24 dB
Call · harmonic, 58 calls, 70-900 Hz

Reverb: hall, 25% 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 2 s fade-in at the start and a 0 min fade-out at the end.

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

In the middle the two sounds truly blend; loudness is matched.

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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