Emotional Infrasounds
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Fascinating and too-brief article on an experiment involving concert-goers reactions to infrasound (below about 20Hz).
Silent sounds hit emotional chords
Tim Radford, The GuardianThe audience reported 22% more “unusual experiences” during those pieces accompanied by infrasound. They reported “shivering on my wrist, an odd feeling in the stomach, increased heart rate, feeling very anxious, a sudden memory of an emotional loss,” said Prof Wiseman.
Natural sources of infrasound - wind, air conditioning systems and traffic for example - could possibly explain why there were persistent reports of hauntings in some buildings. But the environment would affect the attribution, he said.
“If you walked into a modern building and suddenly felt sort of ill but didn’t know why, it might be sick building syndrome. If you walk into an old Scottish castle with a reputation, that’s a ghost.”
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Posted to Audio • 2003.09.08 (Mon) • 10:26
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Posted by Jack 2003.09.08, 21:12
Fascinating stuff.
My apologies if this crosses the line into spamming, but here's a post I made recently about a bunch of musicians who use infrasound to enhance their concerts, and infrasound weaponry.
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