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Sep 7, 2022 at 5:31 vote accept Dimitri
Sep 6, 2022 at 14:36 comment added Dimitri Well yeah, that's basically what I wanted to know, whether the term refers to an objective quality of sound or rather a mental phenomenon. Thanks for the answer!
Sep 6, 2022 at 14:16 comment added Professor Sushing You might also want to bear in mind that conscious hearing, like conscious vision, is a mental phenomenon and is still unexplained. There is no such thing in physics as the colour yellow, for example. Yellowness is a mental construct that your brain creates when light waves of certain frequencies excite atoms in cells in your eye.
Sep 6, 2022 at 14:12 history edited Professor Sushing CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sep 6, 2022 at 14:11 comment added Professor Sushing Hi Dimitri, I meant in physics and mathematics (I'll edit my answer to make that clear). If you have some complicated waveform that isn't a pure sine wave, you can express it as a sum of sine waves with different frequencies. If you Google Fourier analysis you will find lots to interest you.
Sep 6, 2022 at 13:51 comment added Dimitri "In physical terms, any waveform can be modelled as a spectrum of lots of superimposed frequencies, and it is the brain's response to different spectra that give the sense of timbre." Is this in terms of physics or psychophysics or something third? Sorry Marco, not trying to nitpick, but that's what's confusing me about the term.
Sep 6, 2022 at 11:31 history answered Professor Sushing CC BY-SA 4.0