Re: [AUDITORY] Research Question

[Peter Lennox <P.Lennox@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's an excellent reference, thank you for reminding me! - I remember being surprised at the finding re: low frequencies

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ppl

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From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Bob Carlyon <Bob.Carlyon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 26 October 2017 10:44:28
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Subject: Re: Research Question

 

Hi,

 

You might be interested in the study by Halpern et al “Psychoacoustics of a chilling sound”, where they evaluated various unpleasant sounds and selected the worst (sharp object being dragged across slate). They then manipulated the stimulus and, perhaps surprisingly, found the low-frequency content to be responsible for its nastiness. It’s worth reading, if only for the comment “To the authors and several other reluctant

volunteer listeners, the digitized, filtered signal sounded very similar to, and just as unpleasant as the original”. So choose your participants wisely! I would recommend people close enough to be tolerant, but not so close as to ruin a beautiful relationship.

 

Bob

 

PSYCHOACOUSTICS OF A CHILLING SOUND

By:HALPERN, DL (HALPERN, DL); BLAKE, R (BLAKE, R); HILLENBRAND, J (HILLENBRAND, J)

PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS

Volume: 39

Issue: 2

Pages: 77-80

 

 

 

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 4:00 PM, James O'Sullivan <osullij8@xxxxxx> wrote:

This might not be what you're looking for, but have you heard about infrasound? Sounds with frequencies less than 20Hz, so less than what is typically audible to humans. However some people can still detect it, and often report feelings of unease / fear. It has been attributed as being the potential cause of several ghost stories and haunted houses. Wikipedia has a decent article on it.

James

James O'Sullivan,
Post-doctoral Researcher,
Columbia University.

> On Oct 25, 2017, at 12:34 AM, Arun Chandra <arunc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "The Hall of the Mountain King" by Grieg, whistled by the murderer in "M"
>
> arun chandra
>
>> On 10/24/17 4:20 AM, ULStudent:RITA.MC CARTHY wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>> I am in my final year in the University of Limerick, so this year I have had to come up with a final year project, mine is, "Is it possible to make synthetic sounds sound real and also, can they carry the same affect of emotion to the listener as the real deal would?" This is all in the horror genre. I have had to gather some horror sounds to work with but I would also like other peoples opinion on what is considered a scary sound to them. By the end of my fourth year I will hopefully have an installation here at my university, where the listener sits in a dark room, 3D sound, so speakers on high, mid and low level of the walls, and a narrative sound design playing around them.
>> So my question is to you, what is a sound that you find chilling/scary?
>> I would appreciate any feedback you could give me.
>> Kind Regards,
>> Rita
>
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