Endlessly Rising Shepard Tone
After talking about the Shepard Tone, an audio illusion that can create an endlessly rising or falling scale, with my friend Ben Pender, I decided to try to create one using Lilypond. The result is quite interesting:
Chromatically rising Shepard Tone:
The midi file created by Lilypond: shepard_tone.midi
The Lilypond file used to render the above midi file: shepard_tone.ly
A wav file generated from the midi file above: shepard_tone.wav (43M)
An mp3 file generated from the wav file above:
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Oh my,
I was just playing around with Ableton Live and just searched shepards tone midi and there you were! two days in a row! haha