This course reviews human perception of sound and music.
Reading the chapters about various aspects of acoustics, you will learn about the human response to sound. Most importantly, you will learn how to compel your audience to listen to your work.
This course will help you to become a thoughtful architect of the sonic matrix and will teach you how to create meaningful content for your sound journeys.
The course is written in a very simple language and includes external links, drawings, tutorial videos, and an interactive experiment.
*Our relationship with sound reflects our reality and understanding of the self.
If you don’t listen, you won’t really hear
Dhiravamsa, Buddhist Monk
Topics of the course:
Passive hearing vs active listening
Sonic triggers
How the hearing process happens
Ear anatomy
Vagus nerve and sonic nourishment
Hearing sound with the body
Drawing reality through the listening
Three aspects of active listening
Selective listening
Work of Alfred A. Tomatis
Awareness of the healing sounds
Active listening as cleansing
Sound signals and puzzling the reality
Perception of low and high amplitude of sound
Overwhelming with sound vs playing quietly
The difference in perception of high and low pitch
Frequencies and energy centers
Experiential exercise for better understanding of the influence of sound on the human body
Perception of ascending and descending tones
The "Hysteresis" effect
Shepard tones
Thoughtful use of sound density
Definition of crescendo and decrescendo (diminuendo)
Silence as a source of information and a tool for transformation
The healing potential of dissonance
Connecting body, mind, and spirit through sound
Mood shifters
The definition and listing of major and minor chords
Specifics of overtone-emitting instruments
The healing power of "surprise"
The benefits of tension and relive
Definition of synesthesia
Definition of auditory-tactile synesthesia
Definition of misophonia
The autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)
