Shepard Tone. An auditory illusion.


BaalChatzaf

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I hear no illusion at all, I just hear a repeating series of ascending "glissando" tones. I can clearly perceive each time the onset of a new bass tone of the next glissando. Sounds like something written by Czerny...
 

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4 hours ago, Max said:

I hear no illusion at all, I just hear a repeating series of ascending "glissando" tones. I can clearly perceive each time the onset of a new bass tone of the next glissando. Sounds like something written by Czerny...
 

Most people who hear it sense a continually rising pitch...

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2 hours ago, Peter said:

If you were watching StarTrek Voyager as I was when I played it, I thought someone was being "beamed up." 

very apt,  very plausible.

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On 8/28/2017 at 8:10 PM, BaalChatzaf said:

 

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