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Audio Illusion

posted by eric3579

2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 8538 views

tags: audio, illusion

When this video is done playing, REPLAY IT to hear an amazing audio illusion..

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Hehe you beat me to it by 1 minute and 2 seconds. While I was fooling around with other things.

written by arvana

| 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago | CH

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Anyone know what this effect is called?

written by HaricotVert

| 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago | CH

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harmonics?

written by Crazy-drummer | 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago | CH

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risset_tone

written by lavoll

| 2 years 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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>Anyone know what this effect is called?

TRIPPY, dude!

written by deathcow

| 2 years 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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Upvote for making me cry.

written by blankfist

| 2 years 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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Amazing... ahh the brain... a weird and wonderful thing.

written by spoco2

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i am NOT ok with that.

written by handmethekeysyou | 2 years 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/DescenteInfinie.ogg
sounds cool too

written by djkor | 2 years 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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It just replays the same tone over and over... I don't get it. Am I supposed to hear something?

written by K0MMIE

| 2 years 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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yes, K0MMIE - it should sound like it's continuing up the scale - that's the illusion.

written by dag

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OH, i Just heard the same couple sounds repeating over and over... I read up on it, and I get it.. I just don't hear it. It's because I have super hero hearing and the electrons firing in my brain cause such a racket.

written by K0MMIE

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That's pretty wild. You see millions of optical illusions but that's the first I've heard of an audio illusion.

written by videosiftbannedme

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Sweet mother-of-acid-flashbacks make it stop!

written by rottenseed

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If you replay it 13 times, only dogs and bats can hear it.

written by Fletch

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People who are "tone-deaf" probably won't hear it.

written by Payback

| 2 years 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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Quite cool. If I don't think about it.. it seems to go up. But if I concentrate, it becomes obvious that it is the same tone. The brain sure plays tricks doesn't it?

written by honkeytonk73

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Since we can no longer use waterboarding and other interrogation tactics deemed inhumane, perhaps this recording will suffice as a replacement.

written by hueco_tanks

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This upsets Sam lying next to me as I play this. ---->

written by swampgirl

| 2 years 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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As cool as this is, you need to hear the descending one on wikipedia. It's more impressive and much, much creepier. Here's a direct link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DescenteInfinie.ogg

written by entr0py | 2 years 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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In 1996 an ambient compilation came out on EM:T records called EM:T Explorer that had a track that exploited this same effect. The last track on the 1st CD was called Endlessly Downward and by an artist Beatsystem, and featured a 12 second loop repeated for 3 minutes and some odd seconds. So awesome.

The effect, though, is not new. As mentioned in the wiki page, bach utilised this effect as well. Everybody whose mind has just been blown? Go and read Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter.

written by djsunkid

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