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  1. josephr, i believe what we are hearing is the difference in phase between the two sine waves, and yea, what you said combined with that. when listening to each tone in one ear with headphones, the mixing is done in the brain. You can still hear the beats through speakers, but I don't believe it is said to bring the same effects.

    What artists are using this method? I was thinking of incorporating into music at some point as well.

    yes yes. the difference in frequency of the two tones is going to be the frequency of the beating. which is why the beats get faster and will oscillate themselves if the two tones frequencies get close enough together (<.05 hz)

    this is a little different than the waves just having a difference in phase, which could imply that they are the same frequency. the phase changes periodically.

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    http://www.indiana.edu/~emusic/acoustics/phase.htm

    our brains use the differences between what you hear in your left and right ear to localize sounds in our environment. there is a very slight delay, and also difference in timbre that allows us to identify where sounds are coming from ("auditory localization").

    "binaural recordings" are recordings made with a pair of matched microphones oriented in a way similar to our ears. sometimes the microphones are mounted inside head shaped mounts complete with modeled ears.

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    When you listen to recordings made with devices like these using headphones, you are able to localize with a terrifying degree of accuracy where the sounds are coming from. it is the most amazing "surround" sound.

    anyway, the idea about binaural beats in the brain is that your brain is summing those slightly different tones (rather than a speaker or a physical acoustic environment ) which is somehow utilizing some unconscious part of our perception that then generates the "beating" effect.

    i am not too into binaural beats. moreso other things.

    mainly "otoacoustic emissions". these are tones our ears physically produce in response to tuned pairs of tones. it's insane!

    my buddy and one of my favorite composers maryanne amacher teaching thurston moore about it:

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  2. But that leads to binaural beats, which are a means of producing specific types of brain activity. You know how you when you tune a guitar, you hear that wah-wah sound, and as the notes get closer, the wah-wah slows down until it flatlines at the point which the notes are in tune/phase. By producing two seperate tones at slightly different frequencies, you can replicate that effect. The difference between the two frequencies ends up being the tertiary tone produced, so if you're playing a 100Hz frequency and a 105Hz frequency, your ears/brain create a tertiary 5Hz frequency, which your brain can align with in entrainment and make creative thought much easier.

    I have to comment on this.

    This is close but slightly incorrect. When you art talking about tones beating against each other in a physical space, the beating is accomplished by physical means. When two sustained tones are sounded with similar frequencies, the interference creates a "tremolo" effect as the wavelengths interfere constructively and destructively.

    Further explanation:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)

    Binaural beating in the brain is much crazier. Because instead of the beating occurring because of a physical action (the physical reaction of the two wavelengths "fighting") it occurs strictly in the brain.

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

    I am not terribly interested in the therapeutic value of beating but a lot of composers I like exploit physical acoustic phenomenon.

    Dino - you should really go to Lamonte Young's dream house.

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    Young and Zazeela characterize the Sound and Light Environment as "a time installation measured by a setting of continuous frequencies in sound and light." In the light environment Marian Zazeela presents four works, two environmental: Imagic Light and Magenta Day, Magenta Night, in installations specifically designed for the site; and two sculptural: the neon work, Dream House Variation I, and the wall sculpture, Ruine Window 1992 from her series, Still Light. In the environment Imagic Light, Zazeela projects pairs of colored lights on mobile forms to create seemingly three-dimensional colored shadows in a luminous field.

    In the concurrent sound environment, La Monte Young presents The Base 9:7:4 Symmetry in Prime Time When Centered above and below The Lowest Term Primes in The Range 288 to 224 with The Addition of 279 and 261 in Which The Half of The Symmetric Division Mapped above and Including 288 Consists of The Powers of 2 Multiplied by The Primes within The Ranges of 144 to 128, 72 to 64 and 36 to 32 Which Are Symmetrical to Those Primes in Lowest Terms in The Half of The Symmetric Division Mapped below and Including 224 within The Ranges 126 to 112, 63 to 56 and 31.5 to 28 with The Addition of 119, a periodic composite sound waveform environment created from sine wave components generated digitally in real time on a custom-designed Rayna interval synthesizer.

  3. oh shit, i only have the one lp. its the hotness though for a guy who considers animal collective, and ratatat some of his favorite bands.. hear lots of parallels.

    duuuude. you should also check out-

    storm & stress

    don caballero (both with ian williams from battles, unfortunately don cab gets a little old school emo sounding but it's from the mid 90s so you know)

    the boredoms (album "vision creation newsun")

    steve reich (check out "music for 18 musicians")

    anthony braxton (ty braxton from battles' dad - avant-jazz saxophonist)

    also check out jim o'rourke's album "i'm happy and i'm singing and a 1234" it is the most amazing live computer music (not dance music).

    battles is a good gateway drug for more "avant-garde" type shit. i went to school for electronic music so i spent a good amount of time smoking weed with my professors as you may imagine.

  4. 1) 2-3 fat ass joints a day is not anything more than a waste of weed. certainly not an impressive amount to smoke, if that's what you're getting at. i consider myself a moderate smoker and i go through about 1/4 per week.

    2) you're smoking normal cigarettes yet you quit weed because you want to go back to the "goodlife"? that is assfuckingbackwards. quit smoking cigs and get back to jah.

    just a quick 2cent of my story, I've been a regular grass taker for last 8 years, and I basically went on for a while, slowed down, and stopped and went on again cycling...

    note that I was never a dealer or heavy user..

    and as recent as this year,,,

    I've smoked *5* ounces in 4-5months, basically, something like 2 or 3 FAT-ass joint a day (sometimes 2 times a day)..

    I cant believe the tolerance level just increases so much, that I dont even feel anymore,..

    and, after the end of the last joint,,, I just quit and quit, and havent touched that shit for a month now.. no craving at all. (but of course first couple of nights, the dreams were vivid as hell, so real...)

    more or less "I've been there and seriouslt done that shit".

    I also quit all coeffee, energie drinks, softdrinks, and alcohol, (except the I still smoke normal cigs).

    Just trying to get back to goodlife again.. hah :o

  5. keep in mind that there are a lot of small designers you haven't heard of with smaller price points than these big brands. they will also have smaller minimums, and hopefully if some of them are manufacturing in the US they will have some styles for immediate delivery or with a short lead time. men's only in little rock does sound a little crazy tho.

    best thing to do is make friends with somebody to owns a store like the one you want to do but in a different market and beg for advice.

  6. they were on sale so early i'm not surprised the sale sucked.

    $400 for a greenfield blazer is a good deal man, however i don't know how psyched i'd be to get there and then go, "fuck i've got to spend $400 to feel like i haven't wasted my time".

    i got these suede bottega veneta chukkas a couple years ago, that was my best warehouse sale purchse. the rabbit fur lining makes me feel slightly republican.

  7. i recently discovered delivery weed through the clubs. best thing ever. make an order before 2pm and they throw in a free brownie.

    you must do the green cross delivery. you must. only SF city tho. although since you got the free brownie maybe you already are. :)

  8. problem is the government/media makes marijuana seem the same as cocaine or heroin. so kids smoke some weed and go, "this isn't a big deal" and then they get skied out of their minds or chase dragon all day.

  9. i was able to for a very long time...through college and after for a year or so...while i was in sales, i was actually better at my job when i was stoned because i was much more personable. i've always had issues with communication. i have a horrible memory and often have trouble remembering the exact word i'm looking for and whatnot. smoking has become more of a financial burden than anything lately, and more than anything, it's been just making me tired. it probably has more to do with lifestyle than smoking. i need to start working out again and getting my energy up. til then, i'm going to save some money by not buying bud.

    if anyone brings it around me, though, i'll gladly mooch

    it totally sounds like you are smoking too much in one sitting. try cleaning yourself out for a couple weeks and then smoke really much smaller amounts at a time from a heavy glass pipe. i'm talking like .1 g. i used to smoke joints and i felt like you do, now i mostly smoke from the pipe and it's great. very functional. a steady supply of weed that is more on the sativa-side also helps. smoking afghani-derived shit all day will def bog you down.

  10. Uh I'm at work.

    started earlier.

    wish I could just be home blazing and reading this thread instead bleeeeh

    think I'll go home for lunch so the evening goes by faster

    girl you just gonna leave me out in the cold like that?

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