Maryanne Amacher - Synaptic Island

shortened version of: Synaptic Island (Tower Metals/Feed 2/Muse Orchestra 1"
by Maryanne Amacher, Sound Characters (making the third ear) 1999 Tzadik

"When played at the right sound level, which is quite high and exciting, the tones in this music will cause your ears to act as neurophonic instruments that emit sounds that will seem to be issuing directly from your head ... (my audiences) discover they are producing a tonal dimension of the music which interacts melodically, rhythmically, and spatially with the tones in the room. Tones 'dance' in the immediate space of their body, around them like a sonic wrap, cascade inside ears, and out to space in front of their eyes ... Do not be alarmed! Your ears are not behaving strange or being damaged! ... these virtual tones are a natural and very real physical aspect of auditory perception, similar to the fusing of two images resulting in a third three dimensional image in binocular perception ... I want to release this music which is produced by the listener ..." (Maryanne Amacher)

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Music

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• Maryanne Amacher
• Synaptic Island
• otoacoustic emission

[vitaminasHM]

@icketypickety your ears are making these "tones" they're not noises, are quite tonal actually and they're called otoacoustic emissions. If u hear them... it normally means you have healthy ears ;)

[onawintersnight]

2.27, that was a mistake to leave the headphone volume a notch too high.

[Maybe2348]

So inspiring.



[icketypickety]

that description there is the most accurate description that one can find....at one point it felt my head was making those noises...amazing

[bklmsoul]

YES