psychoacoustics
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He gives as much credit to the psychoacoustics as to physical acoustics, convinced that how you feel about your environment invariably colors how you hear and how you make music.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2021
There’s an easy explanation for experiences like Ms. Miyawaki’s, said William Hartmann, a physics professor at Michigan State University who specializes in acoustics and psychoacoustics.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2017
The "proven solution" is Pzizz’s use of psychoacoustics — a field of science that studies sound perception and how sound affects the brain.
From The Verge • Jul. 1, 2016
There was the idea of psychoacoustics: the phasing, in-and-out-of-unison effects in Mr. Reich’s music and also in the engulfing sound of Mr. O’Malley’s performances, with multiple amplifier stacks.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2014
They focused on psychoacoustics, a field that embraces the idea that our ears can mask deficiencies in a recording.
From Washington Post
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