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- From: eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods)
- Newsgroups: sci.fractals
- Subject: Re: Fractal sound?
- Message-ID: <29895@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 14:58:29 GMT
- References: <93002.002334U41602@uicvm.uic.edu> <1747@airgun.wg.waii.com>
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- denham@hmsp04.wg3.waii.com (Scott Denham X7117) writes:
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- >In article <93002.002334U41602@uicvm.uic.edu> U41602@uicvm.uic.edu (Rich Chong) writes:
- >>I heard that there is a fractal tone that sounds like a tone of
- >>a forever increasing pitch, but in reality doesn't.
- >>Is there a name to this?
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- >I believe it's known as Shepherd's tone.
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- I wouldn't have thought this qualified as a fractal --- more a
- psychological effect. There was a very interesting article on this in
- Scientific American sometime in the last year, showing how cultural
- differences in tone interpretation could be due to differences in
- intonation during speech. Check it out ...
-
- ... John Woods
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