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Good Vibrations: The Science of Sound



World Science Festival

We look around us—constantly. But how often do we listen around us? Sound is critically important to our bodies and brains, and to the wider natural world. In the womb, we hear before we see. Join John Schaefer, Jamshed Bharucha, Christopher Shera, the Danish sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard and multi-instrumentalists Polygraph Lounge for a fascinating journey through the nature of sound. How we perceive it, how it acts upon us and how it profoundly affects our well-being—including a demonstration of sounds produced by sources as varied as the human inner ear and the creation of the universe itself.

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Original Program Date: June 4, 2010
MODERATOR: John Schaefer
PARTICIPANTS: Christopher Shera, Jacob Kirkegaard, Mark Whittle, Polygraph Lounge

John Schaefer’s Introduction. 00:14

Musical Introduction by Polygraph Lounge. 01:27

Participant Introductions 08:26

What makes you interested in sound? 09:45

What are the fundamentals of sound? 16:45

Can we learn to hear noise as musical? 23:48

Visualizing sound wave. 29:23

Music is about emotion… Right? 38:17

Does language get in the way of communication? 44:53

Peripheral auditory system. 54:00

Recording the sounds of the ear. 01:07:00

The paradox of hearing. 01:14:00

Polygraph Lounge makes music with stir sticks. 01:20:00

How sound describes the universe. 01:29:00

Fifty octave shift turned into music. 01:38:00

Polygraph Lounge plays us out. 01:41:25

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  1. Hello, YouTubers. The World Science Festival is looking for enthusiastic translation ambassadors for its YouTube translation project. To get started, all you need is a Google account.

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  2. Looool!! I can't believe how impatient people are! All these haters talking about polygraph lounge clearly couldn't just wait for the rest of the panel to start talking… I'm sure this talk is weird for ANYBODY at first but by the end of it you are left in awe of vibration

  3. I tune pianos (25years) They missed a little on the beginning sound wave section,
    ( although not much, and it may have only confused most ). But the Guy from UV Charlottesville blew my mind with all that knowledge on our ear ! Outstanding lesson! I wonder what Jacob listens to in the car ?

  4. This balding neurologist guy in the blue shirt is my new hero. I just uttered out lout, "man this guy is a genius" and then he started talking about tone-codes for emotions, which is something I've been personally thinking about recently. I was not surprised to hear negative emotions had a tonal code, but I was surprised to find out happy emotions did not! I want to read that paper!

  5. Recommended by the person with whom we are working on a cymatics project together. What is she thinking? I listen all the time. Live in the country where there are lots of sounds that are stimulating and delightful. This is boring. 25 and out of here!

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