source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:19:26 -0800 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1017 From: Brian Belet On Mon, 17 Mar 1997 15:23:39 -0800 Marcus Hobbs said: >i hooked a fader to frequency in kyma (the world's most expensive tone >generator?) and played around with the limits of my hearing. i'm 27, in good Expensive -- well, only relatively. It's a bargain for the computing power it delivers! >physical shape, and have no hearing conditions that i'm aware of, although i >get hayfever, which tends to congest the whole ears/nose/throat system. my >hearing seemed to fade out around high 16- to low-17 khz. the transition from I'm 42, a bassist (with past rock & roll loud performing), but still in reasonably good shape, etc., and my hearing discrimination also fades out arount 16 kHz. Either I'm holding on OK or Marcus is aged before his time! At 14 kHz and above, the frequencies really become "high sparkle" to me, and so I use them in my composing rather freely in that way. I carefully control lower frequencies (using Kyma) for ultra-precise melodic/harmonic relationships, but up high I let them float around freely for color and texture. I can't hear them with more specification, so I assume that no one else can either. -- Brian B. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 03:47 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04062; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 03:47:38 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04060 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id SAA23931; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 18:46:07 -0800 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 18:46:07 -0800 Message-Id: <199703172128_MC2-12BB-283A@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu