The Auditor- the Return of the Detective by D I Hills

Author:D I Hills [Hills, D I]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hobuck Publishing
Published: 2020-02-22T22:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Eight hours later and despite having not slept I was again calm. Initially they had tried talking to me but it was too difficult for me to respond and I wasn’t in the mood for talking anyway, not with that thing dripping out of the window opposite. In the end they piped music through the speakers.

The music wasn’t the sort I would’ve chosen, but it was a good choice because within half an hour of it playing in the background I was calm.

It always surprises me how sound can cause an effect in the listener. I understand calling someone a nigger might get them angry, but that’s not what I’m talking about. In that case it’s the meaning of the words to the listener that causes the change in blood pressure. Say it to a Chinese and they’ll laugh it off. Say it to an African American and they’ll get their homies to come and bust a cap in your ass. Even reading it and they might do the same. But that’s not the sort of sound I’m talking about.

Sounds can create physical reactions in objects. Play the right note and you can shatter a glass. At exactly what frequency this occurs will depend on what particular frequency that individual glass resonates at. Stand next to a speaker at a death metal concert and you don’t have to listen to the music because you’ll feel it. Your internal organs will gyrate to the beat. At a frequency of nineteen hertz and at a volume of one hundred and ten decibels you’ll begin to hallucinate. That’s because that’s the frequency at which your eyeballs will begin to resonate. And as they pulsate and dance in time to the rhythm your vision will distort. Hit two hundred and forty decibels and your entire head will resonate and in this case by ‘resonate’ I mean it will shake itself to bits. Organs are simply sacks of meat and gas at various pressures and densities and by using the right frequency and decibel, you can, theoretically, selectively, make any one of them resonate.

Some sounds are beyond our range of hearing and yet still cause a reaction within us. Ultra- and infra-sounds can cause feelings ranging from extreme nausea to a feeling of unease, similar to the feeling one might have if they were to ‘sense the presence’ of a ghost. While these reactions to sound are interesting too, they are not the sounds and effects I find surprising.

You see, what I find surprising is that while some sounds cannot be translated into any language and are not loud enough to cause physical objects to move, when heard they will still elicit an emotional response. Now, if emotions are evolution’s survival guide then for those sounds to elicit a response they need to have been put into our DNA by some serious trial and error.

For example, the fear response. Everyone reacts to a scream and most people can tell the difference between a fake one and real one.

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