Musiculum
Lecture series "From Sound to Sound
Prof. Dr. Christian Kaernbach
Institute for Psychology
Christian-Albrechts-Universität of Kiel
In cooperation with the musiculum Kiel
0. from sound to sound - an overview
1. music means sound - no music without sound waves
- Sound vibrations
- The simplest case: the sinusoidal oscillation
- Sound propagation
- Amplitude and intensity, decibel
- Harmonic and inharmonic overlays
- Periodic oscillations
2. music needs ears - from the outer ear to the inner ear
- The outer ear as a bell
- The outer ear as a directional filter
- perception of space
- The middle ear: from airborne sound to waterborne sound
- The inner ear: no passive sound receiver
- The way to the brain
- Link to the Webseite of Albert Bregmann
3. Pitch
- Pitch is not a property of sound
- Overtones
- How the inner ear resolves frequencies
- The analysis of the time structure of the auditory signal
- Absolute hearing
- Consonance
- The tuning of a musical instrument
4. music: a scenario. Scenario analysis while listening
- The whole and the parts
- Seperating and binding
- Shape laws in seeing and hearing
- Many tones - one melody? From "streaming"
- Hidden dissonances
5. music theory (together with Dipl.-Psych. Joshua Lorenzen)
- The origin of musical notation
- The quintessence circle as an aid
- Note names, octave positions, intervals
- Tone supply and key
- Function Theory
- Bohlen-Pierce and other novel scales
- And now for something completely different:
Music theory according to Martin Vogel
- PDF Musiktheorie
- PDF Bohlen-Pierce Skala
- PowerPoint Musiktheorie
- PowerPoint Bohlen-Pierce Skala
- Wagner
6. the invisible in art and the inaudible in music
- Concept art in present and history
- Of scratching figures and mirror joints
- 14 puzzle canons by Johann Sebastian Bach
- twelve tone technique, serial music, cluster
- 4'33" - a work by the composer John Cage
- Eye Music