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The Illusion of Continuity Revisited on Filling Gaps in the Saxophone Sound

Some time-frequency gaps were cut from a recording of a motif played legato on the saxophone. Subsequently, the gaps were filled with various sonic material: noises and sounds of an accompanying band. The quality of the saxophone sound processed in this way was investigated by listening tests. In all of the tests, the saxophone seemed to continue through the gaps, an impairment in quality being observed as a change in the tone colour or an attenuation of the sound level. There were two aims of this research. First, to investigate whether the continuity illusion contributed to this effect, and second, to discover what kind of sonic material filling the gaps would cause the least deterioration in sound quality.

Author: Kleczkowski, Piotr
Affiliation: AGH University of Science and Technology
AES Convention:125 (October 2008) Paper Number:7585 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Listening Tests & Psychoacoustics

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