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Be sure to always listen to Holophonic recordings with headphones.

Notice how the sound doesn’t just jump from ear to ear like traditional stereo recording, but actually circles in front and in the back of the head.

Also make sure to listen at a casual level, as the intensity of the sound varies.

Holophonic Sound is based on binaural recording, a technique in which stereo microphones are fixed within a prosthetic head – complete with ears and sinus cavities – to mimic the complex auditory system of the human head.

Doing this makes binaural and Holophonic recordings sound more natural and more realistic than normal stereo recordings because we hear the recordings with the same nuances we would hear sounds in real life within our own heads.

When played in stereo, Holophonic sound is so realistic and three-dimensional that it can often arouse other senses – smell, taste, and touch – within most people who listen to it.

Allegedly, Holophonic Sounds can stimulate areas of the ear that normal recordings or real life sounds cannot. For this reason, some people with hearing impairments whose brains cannot process other sounds, can hear Holophonic Sounds.

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As usual use headphones and enjoy your virtual hair cut!

The Interrogation Chamber – A Haunting Holophonic Play

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This play was recorded with two microphones placed in the ears of a dummy head thus being in binaural 3D sound. By listening to the play with stereo earphones in a quiet room you should get the same sound sensation as if you were actually on the set listening. No additional sound effect were added post recording. It was recorded, with permission, in a dismantled nuclear reactor complex 25 metres underground.

Your hearing can determine the direction of a sound from the differences in arrival time and sound strength between your both ears as well as from the “frequency filter” caused by your ears shape.

Please note that this purely fictional play contains some pretty scary and violent scenes. Do not listen to it if that can be bad for you.

Medielabbet is a student union organised by students of the Media technology program at KTH in Sweden. The members who made this are: Anton Warnhag, David Ringqvist, Erik Sillén, Norbert von Niman & Poya Tavakolian.
Original manuscript by: Anton Warnhag

One Mom’s Amusing Reaction to Holophonic Sound

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Dr. Hans Jenny made use of crystal oscillators and an invention of his own – the tonoscope – to set plates and membranes vibrating to show how sand and fluids react to the vibration.

This is called Cymatics.

These original films of Cymatics experiments were made in the 1960’s by Dr. Hans Jenny. They depict amazing experiments that produce physically visual representations of sound.

Cymatics – Bringing Matter to Life with Sound – Part 1

This is not unregulated Chaos. It is a dynamic but ordered pattern. – Dr. Hans Jenny

Bringing Matter to Life – Part 2

The more one studies these things, the more one realizes that sound is the creative principle. It must be regarded as primordial. No single phenomenal category can be claimed as the aboriginal principle. We cannot say, in the beginning was numbers or in the beginning was symmetry, etc….. They are not themselves the creative power. This power is inherent in tone, in sound.
– Hans Jenny

Bringing Matter to Life – Part 3

I remember the joy of looking at the cymatic sound patters, and the wonderful sense of “Yes!” that rippled through my being. Each picture was worth at least a thousand words and I felt as though I were reading volumes in just a few minutes.
– Dr. John Beaulieu, “A Commentary on Cymatics” in the foreword of the 2001 edition of Cymatics by Hans Jenny