RE: ears (and links)

[Laurie Hatch <lahatch@dnai.com>]

Trevor wrote:
>I would like to thank you guys for putting the effort into this thread-
>I think this my be one of the most interesting discussions we've had.  I
>am pleased that I've had the chance to soak a lot of this up.

No kidding.  Really exceptional contributions.  Welcome to Loopers U, 
online!

Also, thanks John S. for the "Music and Your Mind", and "Science and 
Music" 
book recommendations.  (Sir James Jeans was a man of many talents.  A Carl 
Sagan of the 1920's, he also wrote what was perhaps the most popular 
astronomy 
book of his day, "The Universe Around Us.")

Until I get a chance to go to the library, I've put in a little time 
cruisin 
the net for more info on psychoacoustics, etc.  Here's just a smattering 
of 
URLs; most likely nuthin new for the list's much appreciated technowizards 
(you 
guys probably had these bookmarked before you learned to walk, right? %^). 
 But 
for us the rest of us mortals, there may be something useful.

What I have not yet located are substantive references to how non-harmonic 
distortion components affect physiological response and perception -- 
including 
gender differences.  If anyone comes across that sort of information, even 
peripheral, I'd really appreciate it if you'd let me know.  If I find 
anything 
meaningful, I'll post it back to the list. Thanks!

ciao,
laurie

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Experimental Psychology Prof Chris Darwin's home page.
http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/Home/Chris_Darwin/
Go down to "Teaching", and click on "Lecture Notes".  This is from a 2nd 
year 
course in hearing and perception. Very comprehensive.

Rudimentary, beginning college level 101 technical essays on sound and 
electronic music, from U of California at Santa Cruz.  Take note, all you 
proud 
moms and pops raising enlightened little loopers and loopettes.  They'll 
be 
ready for this all too soon...
http://arts.ucsc.edu/EMS/Music/tech_background/tech_background.html

Chris Plack's ear page.  He's a psychoacoustician, doing some interesting 
research.
http://epunix.biols.susx.ac.uk/Home/Chris_Plack/welcome.html

Kim mentioned CNMAT at UC Berkeley.  Don't miss this one.
http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/Research/
and Director David Wessel:
http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/News/
He's researching a tongue-triggered midi controller, among other things...

Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.  Their articles are indexed, but 
full 
text is not available online.
http://www.aes.org/journal/

Auditory home page.  Adjunct to Auditory list, discussion group for 
organizational aspects of auditory perception.  Archives, links, etc.
http://sound.media.mit.edu/~dpwe/AUDITORY

Design philosophy and background info from Audio Note amplifiers.  In "The 
Negative Effects of Feedback", section "The Problem", can be found a 
condensed 
description of (among other things) harmonic, non-harmonic, and time base 
distortion.  Lengthy discussion on amplifiers.
http://www.audionote.co.uk/anp2.html






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