Spiritual Surround Sound Comm-Unity
If you're in the locality of Brighton to Kingston, or in Prince Edward County, I host monthly gatherings at Q Music Studio, such as spiritual sound healing circles, learn to sing karaoke, open mic and recitals, plus women-only special events for Akashic sound healing. Space is limited to 12, pay what you can to attend (donation style) - please get on our email list so we can notify you of what we're hosting, and what's
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DSD Brings Back the Felt Experience of Pure Sound
Pure Waveform
Pulse Code Modulation
Pulse Density Modulation
This Man - The REASON why I got into this...
Meet Gus Skinas of SONY International, my DSD mentor, I consider him a pioneer in the field, he's the reason I built my studio for this very purpose; this interview was from years ago at Super Audio Center in Longmont Colorado. Let's get started by learning how to bring back the felt experience of analog sound, Gus tells us about Ted Smith (who created the digital audio converters we use today) and Paul McGowan from PS Audio (and Octave Records), without whom we wouldn't have the equipment available to do this.
These interviews were done in Boulder Colorado not too long ago. Gus gives us the backstory of how DSD came to be, starting with the Sony-Phillips patent era through to development of the Sonoma DSD workstation system.
Recording in DSD became a grammy award thing, and now it's there for more artists and listeners, the world is more ready for it now, data storage is cheaper. Converting original analog recordings to a permanent digital (everlasting) format is what Library of Congress is doing now.
Gus teaches us how DSD works, why it's different from the format used in CD's called PCM (Pulse Code Modulation), from digital samples of 16 bit depth at 44.1kHz to MegaHertz single bit stream, why it feels like analog. We learn about special hardware and software, for recording, editing and mastering...then playback, via the SACD (Super Audio CD). His company Super Audio Center is independent from PS Audio and Octave Records. The art of this science is in the mastering, if you ask Gus.
Get as sci-technical as you want to, or don't. DSD for me is about the felt experience of sound, just as Gus described the top SONY honchos ending up in a puddle (and other folks that just don't cry), nobody can truly explain why we feel music in DSD so differently than streaming and CD's, it's more REAL. My life as a sound healing producer (see References below) is dedicated to show how medical research on pure, quality sound is showing the exact same thing. Conclusion: nobody can explain why, to me it's spiritual.
DSD over PCM is DoP and this is the transport process that makes our phones and computers, anything that can play streaming music, turn what you hold in your hand into a DSD player. DSD is now available in downloadable formats other than hard copy SACD and both HD Tracks, Native DSD and other sites have player apps you can install. Wireless limits the DSD beauty, so stick with wired headphones, or real speakers (L and R or multichannel) connected by real cables. The dynamic range capability still blows vinyl outta the water.
This interview done by Arizona AV club features Gus, and in one video, you get a great summary of hi res audio and DSD as well, plus some fun stories from his career, what he's experienced and who he's met along the way of this fascinating "Inventor" journey, living at the leading edge of audio frontiers. He asked me over a decade ago, if NeuroSound works this well on CD, do you feel people would heal to even greater heights with it in DSD? You know what my answer was.
Probably only true ultra-nerdy audiophiles will have stuck around to this last video, this one in Audio Engineering Society style, features Hans Beekhuyzen explaining direct stream digital format. This one is here purely because of the traditional teaching nature of the presentation. Contact me via the message box in the footer or email me with your questions to office.quintessencestudio@gmail. com. From this point on, it's all back to mystical applications, knowing spirit is carried on sound waves.
Study the Spiritual Power of Pure Sound
Changing your state
of consciousness
alters what you feel
and how you feel
Quality sound, the right frequencies and timing can change your state of consciousness. Listening to and being in the presence of good quality sound promotes engagement, resulting in a felt experience that is greater than just "hearing". It stimulates self-healing and provides the opportunity to feel inexplicable new states of being. This way, sound is the purest form of “vibrational therapy”.
Good sound benefits us at
physical, energetic &
spiritual levels
simultaneously
Our physical and energetic systems naturally relax into what feels good/right when it comes to sound, we tend to contract away from or reject that which is not “natural” from our body’s perspective. Good sound, like being out in nature, opens us up to healing yet we are surrounded nearly everywhere by bad sound, which is cheap and easily accessible.
NeuroSound invites your
whole being to relax
into healing, so there
is nothing to fear
NeuroSound's specific frequencies and sonic scapes bypass the egoic thinking mind making it easier to feel joy in the real you. Inner freedom means no more mind spinning or getting hijacked by emotions. You can relax at core level as you process and release without revisiting all that has been causing stuckness and resistance at a subconscious level.
References
The Nuts and Bolts of DSD Audio, Andy Jazz
Direct Stream Digital, NamuWiki
Frequencies of Inaudible High-Frequency Sounds Differentially Affect Brain Activity: Positive and Negative Hypersonic Effects, A. Fukushima et al, PLOS one April 2014
From Sound to Significance: Exploring the Mechanisms Underlying Emotional Reactions to Music, Goncalo Barradas, Durham University, American Journal of Psychology, Aug 2015
The Effects of MP3 Compression on Emotional Characteristics, Ronald Mo et al, Proceedings Intl Computer Music, Hong Kong University Science and Technology, 2016
Brain processing of consonance/dissonance in musicians and controls: A hemispheric asymmetry revisited, A. Proverbio et al, 2016, European Journal of Neuroscience
Music and Noise: Same or Different? What Our Body Tells Us, Mark Reybrouck et al, Frontiers in Psychology, Jun 2019
The Ear and The Voice, A.A. Tomatis, 2005, Scarecrow Press
Physiological measures regress onto acoustic and perceptual features of soundscapes. P. Lindborg, G. Luck, O. Brabant, 2013, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Emotion (ICME3)
The Conscious Ear: My Life of Transformation Through Listening, A.A. Tomatis, M. Ferguson, 1992
Strong Experiences with Music, A, Gabrielsson, 2011, Oxford University Press
Brain and Music, Stefan Koelsch, Wiley-Blackwell Publisher 2012
Investigating Emotion With Music: An fMRI Study, Stefan Koelsch,* Thomas Fritz, et al, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany 2005
Relationships Between Musical Structure and Psychophysiological Measures of Emotion, P. Gomez, B. Danuser, 2005, American Psychological Association
Favouring emotional processing in improvisational music therapy through resonance frequency breathing, O.Brabant et al, 2017, Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
Musical Timbre Perception, Stephen McAdam, Psychology of Music, McGill University, Montreal, Dec 2013