MOTM

>From: "Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)" <noise@...>
>Reply-To: motm@egroups.com
>To: "'motm@egroups.com'" <motm@egroups.com>
>Subject: RE: [motm] more with less
>Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 13:34:27 -0700
>
>Cut-ups was a word I used haphazardly; I was referring to a certain sound 
>(I
>forget which) that came in and out of the mix seemingly randomly.
>
>Speaking of disorientation and tracks that make one ill, take a listen to
>Orphx's first album on Malignant Records (Fragmentation) on headphones.
>There's one track that starts with a hard rapid drumming, with each beat
>panned hard to an alternating side (R,L,R,L, etc).  When I first heard it I
>had to pull off my headphones before I fell over.
>
>I know of a couple other audio tricks that I've never tried.  Firstly,
>frequencies in the range of 40kHz can cause headaches... without the
>recipient knowing why, because they can't audibly hear the tones.  
>Secondly,
>ultra-low frequencies (1-10Hz) are supposed to cause a variety of effects.
>Unfortunately, its damn hard to get something in the audible range, so you
>have to use beat-frequencies (play two tones whose differences are 1-10Hz).
>At least one effect, as I understand, is to help sleep more soundly is
>listened to as you're about to fall asleep.
>

Human brainwaves are in Theta (most relaxed) at 6.7 Hz. Frequencies at or 
close to there cause an effect of the brain trying to sync-up with them 
making you very relaxed. There are some tapes and machines designed to 
binaurally beat at these frequencies just for this purpose.

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