http://www.metafilter.com/tags/tritones Posts tagged with 'tritones' at MetaFilter. Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:30:17 -0800 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:30:17 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/52302/Sometimes%2Dhigher%2Dis%2Dlower <a href="http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug01/musicpitch.html">An audio illusion</a> called the <a href="http://psy.ucsd.edu/~ddeutsch/psychology/deutsch_research6.html">tritone paradox</a> is based on <a href="http://www.crowncity.net/ratcave/Audio/Audio.html">Shepard Tones</a>, a finite self-similar sequence of <a href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/highest_note/ex.about.fr.html">tones</a> that seem to contiually rise or fall in pitch. <a href="http://psy.ucsd.edu/~ddeutsch/psychology/deutsch_research1.html#Introduction">Diana Deutch</a> has found that how you percieve these illusions can be strikingly different from person to person and that most people have some form of pefect pitch. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.52302 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:30:17 -0800 audio deutsch illusion paradox selfsimilar shepard tritones ozomatli