sound

one wave equation with a dial for the edges. play a note and turn it into interference, a standing wave, a drum or a room.

attack, reverb, delay, compression — every production word demonstrated on a live waterfall instead of defined.

the wave against the size of your head, where each pitch lands in your cochlea, and how far up you can still hear.

your real range against the standard voice types, how in tune you are, and a rack with reverb, echo and a looper.

sand on a vibrating plate, collecting where the plate isn't moving. the picture is drawn by the silence.

play a note and watch the air itself shove and thin. every interval shown as the plain fraction it is.

two notes almost in tune, drifting in and out of step until they cancel each other. interference you can hear.

only the waves that fit the ends survive. seal one end and the pitch drops an octave, and half the harmonics vanish.

two speakers, and the permanent quiet lines between them. flat, then as a surface you can turn.

you almost never hear a sound — you hear the sound plus the room. build one and clap in it.

why a passing siren drops in pitch, drawn as wavefronts. push it past mach 1 and the sonic boom shows up on its own.

your microphone as frequency against time. whistles are lines, vowels are stripes, claps are walls.