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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 35, Number 3, pages 299-302 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2024_3_299

PITCH AND TIMBRE OF SUPERSHAPE OSCILLATORS

Dominik Chapman^1*, Rexleigh Bunyard², Johan Gielis³

¹ Zurich, Switzerland
Email: audiovisualgeometry@gmail.com

² Requiem for the Living, Eastbourne, England / Pretoria, South Africa

³ Geniaal BV, Antwerpen, Belgium
Email: amit@bgu.ac.iltr

^* corresponding author

Abstract: An experiment was conducted to study and categorise by ear the pitch and timbre of supershape sounds. The resulting observations were compared to the graphical images of supershapes and the harmonic spectrum of their x and y coordinates waveforms. The experiment, first results, and future work are briefly described here.

Keywords: supershapes, audiovisual perception of geometry, sound catalogue

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