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Title: ...the 432Hz re-master... Post by: Oren on June 12, 2012, 09:12:49 AM Further exploration into the A=432Hz phenomenon has yielded an unexpected creative outlet...
A=440 music pitched 8 Hz lower than it is recorded is purported to have some of the same therapeutic value as music performed and recorded at A=432 Hz. Re-pitching some of my favourite music, using Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - has resulted in a collection of soothing audio that helps me refresh between mastering sessions, relax after a stressful day, or tune out mental "noise" when in agitated frame of mind. The problem: re-pitched music tends to contain odd digital "artifacts" - bits of strange audio phenomena that were not present in the original recording. My solution: over time, I've come to regard remastered 432Hz audio files as a type of technical artform, similar to sampled/looped productions, beat slicing, or "low-fi" remixes of existing audio content. Re-mastered 432Hz audio is never going to sound absolutely like the original, no matter how good the re-pitching software becomes, so why not make it a cultivated taste - purposely altered to an inexact representation of the original? One gets an interesting bit of altered audio, plus many of the physical/psychological benefits of music performed and recorded at A=432 Hz. In our new world of audio possibilities, this is one more direction a digital audio artist may choose to pursue. Title: Re: ...the 432Hz re-master... Post by: offthewall on June 12, 2012, 12:22:46 PM 8)
I sometimes feel that I have always been a convert to this even before I knew what it was. Back in the old days, when I was teaching myself guitar, I used an old record player which had a worn drive wheel. It played everything just that tad out of pitch to what it should have been. I always tuned my guitar to whatever records I was listening to. Consequently, if I went to play along with anyone else I had to tune slightly up again. My ear was so tuned in to my own pitch that it always made me feel uncomfortable with other musicians. ::) Strange, but true 8) ;) James Title: Re: ...the 432Hz re-master... Post by: Oren on June 12, 2012, 06:07:21 PM ... if I went to play along with anyone else I had to tune slightly up again. My ear was so tuned in to my own pitch that it always made me feel uncomfortable with other musicians. ::) You're my kind of man, Mr. Fraser. Odd from the get-go... :;... ;DStrange, but true 8) _________________________________________________________________________- I've heard of a gentleman who purchased a set of "healing bowls", hammered from brass and tuned by ear in a Buddhist monastery. When tested for pitch they measured nearly exactly the notes of that A=432 Hz scale. |