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Pitch is a construct created by the brain to process high-frequency pressure waves efficiently rather than a fundamental property of sound.
“So, what I'm getting at here is that there is no music. Everything is just percussion. Every oboe, every trumpet, every singing voice is just a combination of drums that are going so fast, we give up and we hear it as a pitch”
The Rest Is Science · Jun 2026 · 1 episode · 730K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.