Traditional / experimental practice

Inner Cinema · Using Silence

A full bed is suddenly lowered at the 100th second, and eight seconds later a soft hit comes. At the 200th second the same hit comes without the bed being lowered at all: which one sounds bigger? Synthesised on the device. There is no claim of any effect.

5 minNo headphones neededEvidence level S: Soundscape, no claim

Liner notes

Bed: Brown noise
Body: Cluster drone · 55 Hz, Endless rise
Strikes: Impact, Reverse swell
What do you hear?: continuous

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

How is this sound made?

Cluster drone−20 dB
Cluster drone · A1 (440 Hz tuning), 4 oscillators
Endless rise−34 dB
Endless rise (Shepard) · centre 180 Hz, 6 octaves, 25 s per octave
Brown noise−36 dB
Impact−22 dB
Event · Impact, peak at 1:48, 3:20
Reverse swell−22 dB
Event · Reverse swell, peak at 4:28

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 4 s fade-in at the start and a 0 min fade-out at the end.

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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.

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