Dichotic harmony for the musical practice

TL;DR

This paper introduces a dichotic listening method to enhance musical harmony by separating dissonant voices into different channels, aiming to increase the pleasantness of chords through headphone-based sound separation.

Contribution

It proposes a novel algorithm for separating dissonant voices into groups and demonstrates its application with two PC programs to improve musical harmony experience.

Findings

Separation of dissonant voices improves chord pleasantness

Dichotic listening enhances perception of harmony

Practical implementation with two demonstration programs

Abstract

The dichotic method of hearing sound adapts in the region of musical harmony. The algorithm of the separation of the being dissonant voices into several separate groups is proposed. For an increase in the pleasantness of chords the different groups of voices are heard out through the different channels of headphones. Is created two demonstration program for PC. Keywords: music, harmony, chord, dichotic listening, dissonance, consonance, headphones, pleasantness, midi.