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Musical Scales

Understanding the architecture of music requires being able to see the relationships between frequencies and distances. This post details the fundamental components that structure our musical system, from the smallest unit to the most complex structure...
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Binaural Waves: Brain Hacking, Neuroscience and the Limit of the Placebo

Binaural beats are one of the most curious phenomena in acoustics and neuroscience: two pure tones with subtly different frequencies, presented separately to each ear, trick the brain...
Como abrir la voz - Legatto

How to discover your voice and free it to sing?

Maybe you've sung alone, in the shower, or along with a song, but when someone else hears you, your voice seems to disappear. Your throat closes up, your breath shortens, and...
El Timbre

The doorbell: the secret personality of sounds

Listening and Production: The same note can feel round, harsh, bright, fragile, metallic, or intimate. What allows us to recognize this difference is called timbre: the quality that gives a note its identity...
Armonicos Ocultos y Geometría del Sonido

The Hidden Harmonics of the Universe and the Geometry of Sound

Throughout history, mystics, mathematicians, and musicians have been captivated by the intricate relationship between sound and form. Since Pythagoras's discovery of harmonic proportions...
La Musica ayuda a recordar y recuperar la memoria

Why does music help us remember places and people?

Music and Autobiographical Memory Sometimes we don't remember a date first. We remember a drum intro, the acoustics of a room, a voice coming from the car. Then a person appears, a...