Im doing a music history class and we are doing lots of work analyzing music, being objectively better that others because of overtones, natural rhythm and such.
We were discussing harmonic overtones and it was asked how fast does the ear hear music.
the prof has a friend in Germany who has been Studying music for decades and mentioned that after about 10,000 clicks per second we stop noticing the clicks and they become like a single sound.
It can perhaps be compared cartoons. 24 FPS it seems seamless but 15FPS, choppy.
The question is what it the average "sample rate" of the human ear ?
has anyone ever looked into this.
the idea behind the question is if it is lower than 10K we must no actually hear 10k+ HZ but our minds must read the overtone signature, that is the picture of the particular sound we hear.
hope this does not sound to complicated
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