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It's the Boss

Whistle a few bars of "Radio Ethiopia". Go into a closet and repeat the performance. Go into the bathroom and do the same unless, of course, that's where you were reading when you turned to this page. Notice how the sound changes from situation to situation.

May 1, 1977
Richard Robinson

It's the Boss

REWIRE YOURSELF

by

Richard Robinson

Whistle a few bars of "Radio Ethiopia".

Go into a closet and repeat the performance.

Go into the bathroom and do the same unless, of course, that's where you were reading when you turned to this page.

Notice how the sound changes from situation to situation. Whistle in a large room, a small room, a room with rugs, a room with tiles and each whistle produces a different audio effect.

The reason is that ears hear sound as the sound reaches them, and sound reaches ears in various fashions, specifically directly from source of sound to ear, and circuitously from source of sound to point of reflection to ear. It is this reflected sound that colors what ears hear. For instance: Most of the sound that hits ears in a concert hall is sound that has been reflected by the shell of the hall; only a portion of the total sound is direct from the players onstage to our ears.

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