Traditional / experimental practice

Auditory Memory · Melodic Contour

A melody and its comparison, in four blocks: at the same pitches, transposed, with the same contour but different intervals, and with a different contour. Which ones sound like the same melody? Answers are not written down or stored. There is no claim of memory improvement or any other effect.

5 minNo headphones neededEvidence level S: Soundscape, no claim

Liner notes

Bed: Brown noise
Body: Tonal voice
What do you hear?: bright

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

How is this sound made?

Brown noise−30 dB
Tonal voice−18 dB
Tonal voice · 240 notes

Reverb: room, 8% 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.

Compare with another sound

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.

See on the map

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