MUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cochlea, Otoacoustic Emission, Maryanne Amacher
Lecture 16 – Composing with Psychoacoustic
Phenomena: Works of Maryanne Amacher
❖ OtoAcoustic Emissions (OAE)
o Low energy sounds emitted by the Cochlea that echo back into the middle war
o The sound is measurable and can be recorded
o Normal process of human hearing
o DPOE’s distortio produt otoaousti eissios are ost preditale i ters
of the sounds that are generated in the inner ear from a stimulus
❖ Aacher’s Experiets
o 1977: Amacher egis eperietig ith ear toes, sterious souds that
seeed to eaate fro iside the listeer’s head
o 1978, phenomena noticed from a scientific standpoint, studies produced by
David Kemp in London
o Now widely accepted that ears produce sounds
o Aaher’s Pereptual Geographies
▪ It is’t just the souds that are iportat, the pereptual odes the
trigger are equally important
▪ ho ertai souds are pereied i a soi orld eoes as
iportat as the souds theseles.
▪ I this ase, the edia is ou
▪ Almost all music plays on these inner ear tones, but usually they are
subliminal
▪ Amacher aims to remove the subliminal status of the sounds our ears
make, through composing for the inner ear
▪ Use of electronic music specifically
❖ Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear) 1999, Maryanne Amacher
o Experiments finally recorded and published gg
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