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ia3n

Conspiracy! and... A new Get-rich-quick sceme!

Oct 16, 2006 13:06

My essay is finished, and what began as "an examination of music marketed as being specifically created for the benificial evocation of altered states of consciousness" has produced some surprising and disturbing results ( Read more... )

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tranquil_sunset October 16 2006, 07:34:19 UTC

Cognitive Psychoacoustics? Sounds cool. I always thought it would be cool to study psycholinguistics... how someone's speech is affected by subconscious thinking. It was inspired by my friend who always uses passive language, like he has some problem with taking the blame... Then someone else told me it had already been studied and my plan fell to pieces.

Anyway. How do mp3s do it? Something to do with physics and the missing frequency when its compressed or something? Sounds scary.

Yeah sorry, i need some food. Then i'll be back to normal :P

ia3n October 16 2006, 08:03:19 UTC

Yes well I won't reveal all to the public yet, but the compression process deletes certain frequencies considered to be 'unimportant.' This means harmonics, high-pitched sounds and certain midrange frequencies that would not be heard due to others interacting with them. However the research of Dr Alfred Tomatis starting fifty years ago, and subsequent studies, stress the importance of frequencies within a certain range for the proper stimulation of brain chemicals. Without a balanced diet of frequencies in certain proportions (outlined in my essay) the brain cannot develop nor function properly. And naturally, MP3 compression deletes those important ones, simply because they are not considered readily audible. Basically the lack of those important frequencies results in understimulation of certain parts of the brain, causing the afore mentioned problems. Also, the lack of high frequencies means that the muscle controlling the three bones within the ear responsible for detecting sound (the staepula muscle? don't remember...) does not ( ... )

spy_cat October 16 2006, 11:27:01 UTC

Huzzah! At last I have something to blame for my increasing levels of stupidity! Perhaps I should have listened to my mother when she told me that rock music makes you less intelligent...

However, this provides me with a good excuse to finally buy myself a record player so that I can play all my Glenn Miller and other assorted swing records which I bought and haven't been able to play. Do vinyls make you stupid too?

And finally: IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY BY APPLE!!! By engineering mp3s so, Apple makes Ipod listeners so stupid that they won't realise that having to buy the newest ipod as soon as it is released is actually a big fat waste of money.

ia3n October 17 2006, 02:48:41 UTC

For the benefit of others who I have not already lectured in french today about this, MP3 was developed by Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) who developed MPEG encoding technology primarily for Microsoft - apple uses Quicktime which, I believe, they developed themselves.

ia3n October 17 2006, 02:50:36 UTC

Oh yeah, and Ipod files, but I haven't got the facility to perform tests on those. However the same compression is used by MP3, Ipod files and WMA files (which are crap).

ferrocene October 16 2006, 12:08:38 UTC

Something new to add to Exit Mundi. You are to be applauded.

ia3n October 17 2006, 03:04:31 UTC

There's only one thing for it - I must TAKE OVER THE WORLD!