source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 12:16:49 -0700 Subject: Answer to my own question: Beers and Frequencies From: Daniel Wolf <106232.3266@compuserve.com> I have not yet located the original experiment, but I have more details on the duplication of the experiment by artists James Turrell and Robert Irwin. In Craig Adcock-s monograph on the artist _James Turrell_ (subtitled _The Art of Light and Space_), I found the following: _...the team redid a lighthearted study carried out by Kristian Holt-Hansen in 1968 involving _Taste and Pitch_. The _experiment_ tested how the tastes of Carlsberg Lager and Carlsberg Elephant beer were affected by sound: _Certain tones produced no effect on the tastes of the beers, but when the relationship occurred, i.e., when the tone was at the particular pitch cited (650 Hz for the Elephant beer, 10-15 Hz for the lager), the beer tasted distinctly better._ Lawrence Wechsler (in _Seeing is Forgetting The Name of the Thing One Sees_) states the result slightly differently: _...they were able to confirm that Carlsberg Elephant Beer tastes best when drunk within the aural context of a particular tone (650 Hz) and that varying that pitch only slightly renders the brew almost undrinkable._ I look forward to hearing of any further confirmations of this experimental data. The Carlsberg brewery assures me that there have been no substantial changes in their product since 1968. Daniel Wolf/Material Press/Frankfurt http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DJWOLF_MATERIAL/mphome.htm Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 17:30 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA23028; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:31:29 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA22290 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA05619; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 08:31:21 -0700 Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 08:31:21 -0700 Message-Id: <199610061529.LAA16621@copland.udel.edu> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu