#aural illusion

[tooyoungforthelivingdead]

Cool, isn’t it? I’ve heard (haha) of this illusion before — it’s called the McGurk effect — but it’s still fun to see it done this way. When the man is shown side-by-side saying it, switch your attention back and forth between them with each syllable. Even knowing it’s an illusion, it’s still overwhelming. I can’t not hear it.

holy shit I love stuff like this. fooled even when we try not to be!

TRUST NO-ONE

[auralscope]

The Bottle which "never" fills up (an aural illusion using AudioMulch)

Earlier this week, I wanted to design a sound which has real-world identity and which also naturally has got sweep effect in it. The best sound I could think of was a bottle being filled up with water under the tap, this sound has got this upward frequency sweep which culminates at the point when the bottle is filled up. How about creating a sound of a bottle which never fills up?

I got back to mulching around with AudioMulch. I have always been an admirer of their RissetTones generator. And with the help of Flangers and RissetTones generators on lamp static as the input sound (which has no resemblance to the output sound at all... I like to do kaya palat which means Total change or transformation in Hindi), I was able to create this aural illusion of the bottle which never fills up.

[scix-in-the-back-row]

Dialogue by H.P. Lovecraft. That neat sample is from "Bongo Bong" by Manu Chao. I highly recommend finding the actual song. Also in the background (along with gibbering and such) is the eternally-rising chord progression aural illusion. It's actually just two chords, but it always sounds like it's getting higher.

Cthulhu Rising by Scix Maddix