Stillness · Root and Overtones

A low root (110 Hz) with its exact multiples added one by one: 220, 330 and 440 Hz. Each appears over a few minutes; together they blend into one warm timbre, then withdraw in reverse order until the root is left alone. Try to pick out each new tone. A piece of sound design with no claim of any effect.

20 minNo headphones neededEvidence level S: Soundscape, no claim

Liner notes

Body: Cluster drone ×4 · 110 Hz
What do you hear?: dark · tonal · even

4 layers, one sound engine; generated on this device every time it plays.

How is this sound made?

Cluster drone−20 dB
Cluster drone · A2 (440 Hz tuning), 1 oscillators
Cluster drone−60 dB
Cluster drone · A2 (440 Hz tuning), 1 oscillators
Cluster drone−60 dB
Cluster drone · A2 (440 Hz tuning), 1 oscillators
Cluster drone−60 dB
Cluster drone · A2 (440 Hz tuning), 1 oscillators

Reverb: hall, 26% 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 20 s fade-in at the start and a 1 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.

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.

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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.

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