HOW IT WORKS

NOT BINAURAL BEATS

Worth noting is that binaural audio is distinctly different from binaural beats. Binaural audio is an audio format (like mp3, WAV, AIFF), while binaural beats refers to a specific application of binaural audio that involves playing slightly different frequencies in each ear. The brain interprets these differences as a third, fluctuating frequency, known as the binaural beat. This effect can influence brainwave activity and is often used for purposes like relaxation, focus, meditation, and sleep.

Binaural beats has a psychoacoustic audio effect theorized to be able to entrain different states of electrical activity in the brainwave cycle, which in turn might entrain different states of awareness.

Both binaural audio and binaural beats offer unique and valuable experiences. As a meditation and deep listening practice binaural audio has the power to immerse you in a realistic soundscape.



BINAURAL AUDIO IN SOUND MEDITATION

The Overtone app was designed to facilitate the sound meditation practice in a way that could potentially mimic the experience of being live in the room, respecting the space and dimensionality of sound.

Recorded using a mannequin head with two microphones in each of its ears to capture sound, taking into account the head-masking and ear spacing that enables us to locate sound in a 3D space. The effect of hearing the reproduced sound on playback in headphones is as if you are sitting in the room with us, and the singing bowl is being moved around your very own head.

It's thanks to binaural audio that professional sound meditation can now be accessed from anywhere.

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