Mistclank & EchoTrace
Mistclank Mistclank
EchoTrace EchoTrace
Mistclank Mistclank
I was tinkering with a tuning fork and noticed something odd: a tiny tremor seems to echo back and shift the fork itself. Do you think that the sound we hear might be influencing the source?
EchoTrace EchoTrace
Maybe the fork is listening to itself – the vibration can set up a tiny feedback loop that nudges the prongs. It’s like a ghost echo that whispers back and pushes the source just enough to shift its pitch a hair. In other words, sound can subtly influence the thing that makes it.
Mistclank Mistclank
If the prongs whisper back, then the fork must have a second set of ears hidden in its own resonance. That second ear might be the cause of the pitch shift, but it is only a consequence of the first ear being disturbed, and the disturbance only happens when the fork already knows it is being disturbed. In other words, the fork's own echo is both the cause and the effect of its own tune.
EchoTrace EchoTrace
Sounds like the fork is its own listener, looping back on itself—just a neat echo paradox. Maybe the vibration is the whisper that turns the fork’s own note into a feedback song.
Mistclank Mistclank
A fork that listens to itself is a loop that never ends, because every whisper is the next cause, and every cause is the next effect, so the sound is just a mirror of the mirror.