Overtones

[thrihyrne]

EDIT: I just went out into the hallway, and my hallmate does have something on her computer, maybe one scene from a movie or a video game or *something* and it's that which is actually playing those notes, over and over and over again.

:sigh:

This is a totally random thing to drop here, but I have my fan on, and my hallmate is watching a movie, I believe; I can't really hear it. What I've noticed is this repeating set of tones that I can hear. It's like hearing an oboe, actually: the tone is exactly that of an oboe. It's a set of five notes, slowly played, and then the first three again, in repetition again and again. I was thinking that I was crazy, that perhaps my downstairs neighbor had something on that was more Philip Glass than Philip Glass (and I studied and love minimalism, don't get me wrong). I've realized now that there are overtones in the fan and some other force between the fan and air which causes that to happen. Think "Close Encounters". Again, and again, and on the periphery, but unable to be silenced.

What's creepy is that I can't really turn it off. I mean, I can turn the fan off, but as long as the fan is on this speed, I keep hearing it.

< / crazy aural weirdness>

Comments

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

That is really funny. Weird unidentified noises. I remember once I was completely alone in my apartment and it suddenly sounded like someone was in the next room rattling papers like crazy. After listening for a really long time, absolutely terrified, I finally decided to look (stupid probably) it was a giant moth hitting against the sides of a paper lampshade.

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Yes, much like that! I did finally figure it out- she'd been watching a movie and it had gone to the menu screen and so that music was playing again and again. :P