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Binauralists take note — Monaural not binaural beat-frequency mixing is found superior — research, audio files, and Eileen McKusick ..what could be better?

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Monaural not binaural beat-frequency mixing is found superior

Fear across the senses Brain responses to music vocalizations and facial expressions

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Fear across the senses Brain responses to music vocalizations and facial expressions

Long-term music training tunes how the brain temporally binds signals from multiple senses

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Practicing a musical instrument is a rich multisensory experience involving the integration of visual, auditory, and tactile inputs with motor responses. This combined psychophysics-fMRI study used the musician’s brain to investigate how sensory-motor experience molds temporal binding of auditory and visual signals. Behaviorally, musicians exhibited a narrower temporal integration window than nonmusicians for music but … Read more

Soloist evaluations of six Old Italian and six new violins

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Claudia Fritz, Joseph Curtin, Jacques Poitevineau, Hugues Borsarello, Indiana Wollman, Fan-Chia Tao, and Thierry Ghasarossian PNAS 2014 111 (20) 7224-7229; published ahead of print April 7, 2014, http://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7224.full.pdf+html “Soloist evaluations of six Old Italian and six new violins” conducted by Claudia Fritz, Joseph Curtin, Jacques Poitevineau, and Fan-Chia Tao. This research was published in the … Read more

MP3 vs. Uncompressed audio null test

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When you subtract a mp3 file from its comparatively uncompressed origin, the result is surprisingly musical.  It is shocking how much information is lost between original and digitally-compressed mp3.  When played, what has been removed is shockingly song-like…almost like a twin has been removed.     An MP3 vs. uncompressed audio null test is an … Read more