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From Maryanne Amacher "Sound Characters (making the third ear)" cd notes:

"Track 1 and 4 (...) included here contain what I call "Third Ear Music" - when our ears act as instruments and emit sounds as well as receive them. "Third Ear Music" is composed to stimulate our ears to "sound" their own tones and melodic shapes. When played at the right sound level, which is quite high and exciting, the tones in this music will cause your ears to act as neurophonic instruments that emit sounds that will seem to be issuing directly from your head. In concerts my audiences discover music streaming out from their head, popping out of their ears, growind inside of them and growing outside of them, meeting and converging with tones in the room. They discover they are producing and converging with the tones in the room. They discover they are producing a tonal dimension of the music which interacts melodically, rhytmically, and spatially with the tones in the room. Tones "dance" in the immediate space of their body, around them like a sonic wrap, cascade inside ars, and out to space in front of their eyes, mixing and converging with the sound in the room. Do not be alarmed! Your ears are not behaving strange or being damaged! Nor are loudspeakers being damaged. These virtual tones are a natural and very real physical aspect of auditotry perception, similar to the fusing of two images resulting in a third three dimensional image in binocular perception. Produced interaurally, these virtual sounds and melodic patterns originate in ears and neuroanatomy, not in your loudspeakers. (Known as "otoacoustic emmissions" sceintific experiments have shown that ears are even capable of emitting sounds seconds after death!) I beleive that such response tones exist in all music, where they are usually registered subliminally, and are certainily masked within more complex timbres. I want to release this music which is produced by the listener, bring it out of subliminal existence, make it an important sonic dimension in my music."

"These effects can also be experienced at a lower volum - but the music loses its energy and takes on an innocent "ice cream man" character not intended in tis recording. Nor can this be experienced with headphones, which preclude phsusical interactions with the space."

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Alvin Lucier "Sferics" (excerpt)

""Sferics" is the shortened term for "atmospherics", natural radio frequency emissions in the ionosphere caused by electromagnetic energy radiated from nearby or distant lightning."

Eliane Radigue "Kyema, Intermediate States" (first 15 min. excerpt) - 1988 "...For my son Yves Arman. Inspired from the source-text of the "Bardo Thodol" (The Tibetan book of the Dead), this work evokes the six intermediate states that constitute the "existential continuum" of being.

Take your time.. put some headphones on, try to pay attention to the minutiae of the sounds. (LS)

part 1 (76 min)

part 2 (40 min)

part 3 (79 min)

part 4 ( 39 min)

part 5 (80 min)

part 6A (47 min)

part 6B ( 10 min)