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What is Psychoacoustics? (1961)

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Do certain acoustic phenomena create universal psychological effects?

Does rhythm hold primacy in the hierarchy of musical elements owing to the ever-present heartbeat, with us since months before we are even born?

Do we have genetically programmed responses to such things as the doppler effect (captured via the Leslie speaker), surely a useful phenomenon for hunting animals to pay notice?

Are there other musical devices that could possibly be based in instinctual animal behavior?

chris

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  • Disney's Imagineers did a huge amount of work on this, though they don't publish it. It's one of the company's core competitive advantages, and has been since 'Fantasia'. The Audio Cyclopedia has some information on this.

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