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In the Thread: Perception of bass?
Post Subject: What makes goosebumps?Posted by rowuk on: 2/10/2020
We refer to playback singularly as an audio event as we have recorded sound waves with acoustic devices (microphones) and play them back through other acoustic devices (speakers/headphones). The basic rules of stereo are generally adhered to (phase and intensity). With a bit of „imagination“, our head can reconstruct events and we derive pleasure from this. I had a concert this past weekend and was sitting on stage during a part where I wasn‘t playing. It was only the solo violin in Danse Macabre and I could swear that something was touching my face/cheeks in time with the music. It was a textured sensation. Something I have never before thought about. It kept coming back during the concert, sometimes just fleeting moments, sometimes extended. Generally it never was noticable when the orchestra was creating pressure. Maybe calling it bass is wrong although it was during the dissonant playing which does create low frequency resultant tones...
The thought is whether this is something that can even be recorded and played back. It was still there when I closed my eyes on stage and it wasn‘t the air conditioning. My playback has „tone“ and LF events also generate a pressure wave that moves my body (at least when the doors in the listening room are closed). This is something much more subtle however. I haven‘t ever read anything about it and thought that I would ask. Playback as a non-auditory event fascinates me. I will have some time on my hands and will try and see if the effect can be created when just reading the score - with no audio. Then score and ULF, then playback with Romys suggestions.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site