MUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cochlea, Otoacoustic Emission, Maryanne Amacher

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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 produt otoaousti eissios are ost preditale i ters
of the sounds that are generated in the inner ear from a stimulus
Aacher’s Experiets
o 1977: Amacher egis eperietig ith ear toes, sterious souds that
seeed to eaate fro iside the listeer’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 Aaher’s Pereptual Geographies
It is’t just the souds that are iportat, the pereptual odes the
trigger are equally important
ho ertai souds are pereied i a soi orld eoes as
iportat as the souds theseles.
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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