#twenty thousand hertz

[mitchipedia]

A brief history of 80 years of radio station ID jingles. "We pack in so many earworms, you're going to need an exterminator."

[thoughtportal]

The Lofi Girl YouTube channel has over 14 millions subscribers, and at any given time, tens of thousands of people are listening together. Created by a mysterious French producer named Dimitri, the channel features a 24/7 livestream of an anime girl studying in her room, listening to lofi hip hop. In this episode, we dive into the Lofi Girl lore, chart the explosion of the Lofi Multiverse, and hear from a music therapist about how lofi affects our brains and behavior. This story was adapted from the Endless Thread podcast.

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (2-8 Mar 2025)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society (C.M. Waggoner, author; Cindy Piller, narrator) - extremely entertaining read! recced by my friend door. billed as a 'riotous mix of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Murder, She Wrote' and surprisingly those comps are extremely accurate. Love the conceit. also really liked what it said about never being too old/cool for whimsy.

😊 His Roommate's Pleasure (Lana McGregor) - enjoyable, short (30K) jock/nerd college roommates erotic romance, delivers precisely what it advertises

💖💖 +158K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Consensual Catfishing (foresthearts) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 32K - reread. modern AU, told via social media, absolutely delightful. Great art & great execution of the set up.

Broken Bird's Wing (sheafrotherdon) - The Old Guard: Kaysanova, 14K - reread. A 'The Repair Shop' AU, lovely & warm & gentle

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

The Shots You Take Virtual Event (with Rachel Reid & KD Casey)

Handsome - Leslie Jones gives Handsome a happy ending

Doctor Odyssey - s1, e9

Make Some Noise - s3, e19

Smartypants - s2, e1

Death in Paradise - s14, e3

Tech Support | WIRED - Dungeon Master Brennan Lee Mulligan Answers DnD Questions

One Song Podcast - Madonna's "Into the Groove" with Guillermo Díaz

Harley Quinn - s5, e5-8

D20: A Court of Fey and Flowers - "The Rule of Sneakery" (s15, e8)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Doctor Green Hunter" (s10, e8)

D20: A Court of Fey and Flowers - "Theater of War" (s15, e9)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Do Clothes Die?" (s10, e9)

D20: A Court of Fey and Flowers - "You Will Never Know a Lonely Day Again" (s15, e10)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Our 2025 Oscars Recap

The Sporkful - Eggs, Raw Milk, And Tariffs, Oh My!

Welcome to Night Vale #263 - Hysteria Land

⭐ Rebel Ever After - Trans identity & polyamory in romance with TJ Alexander

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Arizona’s Big, Big Souvenir

Shedunnit - The Mystery Short Story

Vibe Check - Modern Scriptures at On Air Fest

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Favorite SNL Musical Moments

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - This Dog Stole Madrid’s Heart

Switched on Pop - Playing "Hide and Seek" with Imogen Heap

99% Invisible - A Beetle By Any Other Name

Off Menu - Ep 281: David Tennant

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Mickey 17 And What's Making Us Happy

It's Been a Minute - Is Hollywood soft censoring Palestinian art?

Today, Explained - The Zizian "death cult"

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #29

⭐ The Atlas Obscura Podcast - McAtlas with Gary He

Endless Thread - Terminally Online

⭐ Imaginary Worlds - Fantasy Through a Muslim Lens

⭐ Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - “The Autumn, She’s Been Hit!” The wish that changed Halo forever

Strong Songs - "Fast As You Can" by Fiona Apple

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

True Metal Warriors

'80s Prom Dance

Letters to Cleo

MAYHEM [Lady Gaga] {2025}

Relaxing '80s Rock

Presenting Dua Lipa

The Romantics

[get-hockeyed-idiot]

hate the fact that I recognized Shock Horror (A) as the yotes end-of-pp noise

[ineffabilitybusted]

The gambling aspects of squid games have always piqued my interest. It has a prevalent effect on the games and is one of the factors contributing to the show. To Gi-hun having a gambling addiction, to the gambling aspects of Squid Games in general. One thing that stuck out to me is the noise the piggy bank makes when adding money to the bank.

It sounds eerily similar to the casino jackpot sound effect in a slot machine. 120 Essential Casino & Gambling Sound FX by Sonic scope time: 0:22 to 0:28 to slot machine jackpot sound effect by Charlotte Pollock on YouTube are some examples.

One second of 60 Hz can give good dopamine release, while 20 seconds of 20 Hz sound frequently provides an even greater dopamine release. (Stimul.2019) The piggy bank sound effect usually goes on for around 20 seconds more or less depending on how many players were eliminated in that game. One podcast that breaks down the sound nicely is Twenty Thousand Hertz in episode 46: Slot Machines: The Addictive Power of Sound.

Redditor,thrakotool, also made a list of rules of sound design in the comments of r/musictheory: https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/s/4qJBIrfUy4

Before you guys comment, I am aware that it is illegal to gamble in Korea, and one of the only legal ways to gamble is horse racing. Also, underground or morally grey slot machines are nowhere as similar as the ones in the US, nor do they have the same intended purpose.

Slot machine in Korea: https://www.reddit.com/r/Living_in_Korea/s/xF8Cc76t2R

Like dopamine, if you get too much of it you slowly get used to it and need an increase of it to feel the same level of pleasure. I assume that most of the players don't regularly hear that sound due to the difference and inaccessibility of slot machines. They have less exposure to it in general than the usual casino players. The lights and sounds can promote risky decision-making especially if it´s the players' first time exposed to the sound.

I want to know what you guys think about this subject and I don't claim to be an expert on this matter. All of the information I gained is from secondary sources and I´m more than willing to edit anything that is incorrect. I find this topic interesting to learn about and might add more in the near future.

Brain Stimul. (2019) Differential release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens evoked by low- versus high-frequency medial prefrontal cortex stimulation. National Institutes of Health.

[blurban-form]

“Bluey” featured on Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast

If you’re a fan of podcasts, seek out the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast, this recent one talks about some of the challenges that were faced capturing sounds for “Bluey” and details on some of the music. A worthwhile listen, a lot of stuff I didn’t know about!

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Okay, we've discussed aphantasia - in lack of inner imagery - but here's a new question: do you have inner speech? I've linked to a podcast about this (there's a transcript, too) in the Comments.

My own daily life is directed/narrated/remarked-upon in my inner voice. And I hear every word I read or write. Often, a line of dialog was the first thing that set a chapter or entire novel off.

Characters had very distinct voices as the stories developed. I sometimes felt that I was just transcribing their "speech." As I used to say, "There's a fine line between what I do as a novelist and a condition people take medication for..."

The experience was especially vivid with particular characters. There was a night on tour for Dreamers, when I was also writing Doc, when I woke up in my hotel room to Doc's "voice" telling me, "Write this down, darlin." That became the scene when he asked each visitor to "Tell me about a day when you were happy."

[Mary Doria Russell]

[forthesanityofstorytellers]

Wrote a bit for Halfblood...

And I'm just...I'm really proud of how it came out. I feel like it's a great introduction to Kashi so even if it's not a new intro to Halfblood I still think it's a good glimpse at how Kashi is/thinks before she meets Layla 😁

450 wc Introduction to Kashi First person POV

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Rain. Small drops of liquid that fell from the dark sky and gathered in the cracks of the tar-ridden pavement. I watched as the images in the puddles danced and multiplied over and over and over again, split by the ever-changing surface of the water that captured them. I stopped and stared at my own reflection in the puddle, listening as the rain created a curtain of sound that covered the area.

The human ear can hear sounds between the roughly twenty and twenty thousand Hertz. The average Terran dog can hear roughly between sixty-seven and forty-five thousand.

My species can detect ranges far beyond this spectrum. The calculations are beyond my reach, as science was not always my gift even back home.

So, I suppose I can put it like this. A human, walking along this rainy street at the halfway point of moonrise and moonfall, would likely say things were quiet. Perhaps the aware human would be able to clock the sound of the electricity flickering in the streetlamp above, or would listen to the pattering of the rain against the street and call it light ambient noise.

To my ears, each and every drop could be heard in a smattering of sounds, from the ones that hit the muddy puddles to the ones that hit the soaked concrete. Each different. Each unique. Each carrying different notes through the air to create an array of notes that my ears could pick up. I could also hear the creak of the metal in the wind, the buildings sighing as they settled against their foundations, the squeak of my soaked leather boots against the pavement, the rustle of my wet jacket as it rubbed against my shirt and jeans. The sounds of the insects scuttling for dry patches. The sounds of the humans in the buildings surrounding me. The mechanical whirr of air conditioners and the whispered conversations and the secrets and the shifting and the moving and the ever-going cacophony of sound that comes with living on this rock.

Of course, one learns to dull the senses to survive. My ears could pick it up. But my species were also born with the ability to filter what sounds made it to our ears. So while I had the ability to hear it all, it didn’t mean it was all the time. Hearing all that could - and did, a long time ago - drive one mad.

The magic making me human helped in that regard as well. I could access my species’ abilities, but each and every one was dulled anyway when stuck in this…two-legged form.

I huffed and kicked at my reflection, obscuring it even more before I walked on.

[mitchipedia]

A brief history of 80 years of radio station ID jingles. “We pack in so many earworms, you’re going to need an exterminator.” On the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast.

[thoughtportal]

“Blah, blah, blah” and “yada, yada, yada” have had plenty written about them. But there’s a longtime cousin of these phrases that’s much less understood. We use it all the time, yet it’s not in the dictionary. It’s not even Google-able. In this episode, we investigate the linguistic mysteries of the Five Dah Phenomenon. Featuring linguist & philosopher Paul Saka, and psychologist Helen Abadzi.

[ecaloshay]

I would like to refer people to Karen Jacobsen, the Australian GPS voice, who was paid a one off fee to record her voice at a time before text to speech and this kind of breadth of use was commonplace.

That one job resulted in her voice being used for everything from GPS, to airport and lift announcements, and IVRs. She has one of the most recognisable voices in the world.

But she only received the one payment for the job, which must have been a sore spot when her family was in financial difficulties later while her voice was heard everywhere she went.

See this podcast interview on 20khz:

Karen now, after reclaiming ‘her voice’:

We live in a dystopia....

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (16-22 Feb 2025)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 raise you to be good (puckthisshift) - 45K, hockey rpf AU featuring: werewolves, accidental child acquisition, rivals2lovers

😊 Murder on the Cornish Coast (A Miss Underhay Mystery #19) (Helena Dixon, author; Karen Cass, narrator) - Kitty & Matt head to Cornwall to protect a young heiress & solve her father's murder

💖💖 +235K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

All of Your Love is Sunlight (canistakahari, NelTheWarlock) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 22K - LOVE LOVE LOVE this one! I'm a sucker for 'everyday magic' in stories. Plus the interactions between Bucky & Becca are *chef's kiss*!

I Just Want to Love You in My Own Language (agetwellcard, inediblesushi (orphan_account)) - MCU: shrinkyclinks (kind of), 22K - "Bucky Barnes is Captain America and uses terrible pickup lines. Steve Rogers is Captain America's nurse and is not impressed by the aforementioned terrible pickup lines." Love a good Bucky!Cap/smol!Steve fic. The art in this one is excellent as well.

No Fairy Tale Ever Started This Way (ElliottRook) - Stranger Things: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson, 6K - short but very funny meet cute cringe at the laundromat

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

The Sam Sanders Show - Who Belongs on Black Hollywood’s Mount Rushmore?

Make Some Noise - s3, e18

Only Murders In The Building - s4, e1-10

Death In Paradise - s14, e1

D20: A Court of Fey and Flowers - "A Bloom to Remember" (s15, e1)

D20: Adventuring Party - "I Demand Satisfaction" (s10, e1)

D20: A Court of Fey and Flowers - "The Great Hart Hunt" (s15, e2)

D20: Adventuring Party - "A Diamond Doesn't Know They're a Diamond" (s10, e2)

D20: A Court of Fey and Flowers - "Duel on the Southern Lawn" (s15, e3)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Was Your Father a Meat Burglar?" (s10, e3)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

⭐ Hit Parade Plus - Material Girl in an Imperial World Edition

Pop Pantheon - Imperial Phases: What Are They, Who's Had One and Do They Still Exist? (with Tom Ewing)

Welcome to Night Vale #262 - The Man Who Is Not Tall

⭐ One Song - New Order “Blue Monday”

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Atlas Obscura Presents: A Trucker on Seeing the US by Road with Women Who Travel

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Paddington In Peru

The Sporkful - Southern Cooking Icon Edna Lewis Gets Her Due

The Curious History of Your Home - Lawnmower

Pop Pantheon - NORMANI (with Keep It! Host Ira Madison III)

Pop Culture Happy Hour - We Fantasy Cast The Traitors

Shedunnit - Agatha Christie’s Taste in Crime Fiction

The Curious History of Your Home - Jewellery

Heist with Michael Caine - Ep. 1: Underneath Diamond Town

Short Wave - Party In Peru: New Critters Just Dropped

Vibe Check - Divorced Dad Energy

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy

Ologies - Erethizonology (PORCUPINES) with Tim Bean

99% Invisible - The Nazi Block

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Solar Symphony: Listening to the Sun’s hidden “music”

Heist with Michael Caine - Ep. 2: You Gotta Have Balls

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Sam Sanders Is a Nature Girly

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Monkey And What's Making Us Happy

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Presenting Olivia Newton-John

Rock Sugar

Elle King

Rockstar [Dolly Parton] {2023}

my 'Liked Songs' playlist