Traditional / experimental practice

Solfeggio Path · Two Shores

174 and 285 Hz in turn, twice: when one falls silent the other begins, with a few seconds of room air in between. The two pitches never play together; you hear the distance between them by comparison. A listening practice.

2 minNo headphones neededEvidence level S: Soundscape, no claim

Liner notes

Bed: Brown noise, Pink noise
Body: Pure tone · 174 Hz
What do you hear?: swelling

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

How is this sound made?

Pure tone−29 dB
Pure tone · 174 Hz
Brown noise−50 dB
Pink noise−60 dB

Reverb: convolution, 15% 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.

These two sounds can't share one recipe (different tuning or effects): listen to the samples one after the other.

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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