"Resonance underlies aspects of the world as diverse as music, nuclear fusion in dying stars, and even the very existence of subatomic particles."
I learned recently that the harmonics of consonant musical notes have aligned frequencies. Meaning: the most consonant notes produce the most resonance between the strings. For example, two strings at a consonant interval of a fifth (3:2) have harmonic resonance every 3rd and every 2nd harmonic band. This is much easier to show with a visual of the spectrograms: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cdRfvPtek44rH8k2GpMV...
As oscillations of neurons in the brain will also show this harmonic structure (due to the frequency following responses [1]), consonant notes may also produce the most neural resonance! But, we don't have the ability to measure and test this hypothesis yet.
[1] Bidelman, G. M., & Momtaz, S. (2021). Subcortical rather than cortical sources of the frequency-following response (FFR) relate to speech-in-noise perception in normal-hearing listeners. Neuroscience Letters, 746, 135664.
I learned recently that the harmonics of consonant musical notes have aligned frequencies. Meaning: the most consonant notes produce the most resonance between the strings. For example, two strings at a consonant interval of a fifth (3:2) have harmonic resonance every 3rd and every 2nd harmonic band. This is much easier to show with a visual of the spectrograms: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cdRfvPtek44rH8k2GpMV...
As oscillations of neurons in the brain will also show this harmonic structure (due to the frequency following responses [1]), consonant notes may also produce the most neural resonance! But, we don't have the ability to measure and test this hypothesis yet.
[1] Bidelman, G. M., & Momtaz, S. (2021). Subcortical rather than cortical sources of the frequency-following response (FFR) relate to speech-in-noise perception in normal-hearing listeners. Neuroscience Letters, 746, 135664.