Seeing Sound: A tool for teaching music perception principles

One challenge we have found in teaching auditory perception is the difficulty of conveying the combined spectral and temporal complexity of natural musical sounds. Even single tones from musical instruments produce sounds that can only be fully conveyed using some type of 3D display showing continual changes in (1) amplitude and in (2) spectrum continuously over (3) time. It can be difficult to convey in 2D textbook figures, obfuscating the …