[LAU] FW: audio format

[Benoît Rouits]

Le 29/05/2013 00:56, Fons Adriaensen a écrit :
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:24:54PM +0200, Benoît Rouits wrote:
>
>> I was surpised and yet seduced by the reading of the page (see
>> above) relating to an audio coding format from Pierre Jocelyn.
>> It is written in french. But found the idea imaginative enough to be
>> worth shortly described in this list too.
>
> It could have been funny two months ago (April 1), and if were
> the first time this turned up.
>
> Crackpot nonsense from the same Abadie Joris, Kihli Guillaume,
> Pierre Jocelyn (and I wouldn't be surprised if these three turned
> out to be one and the same person) who wrote the following gem,
> claiming that the concept of 'frequency' is completely misguided:
>
>    "De l'observation si nous prenons un son et que nous le plaçons
>     à l'intérieur de ses fronts montants et de ses fronts descendants
>     un plateau sans modifier les durées, nous ne modifions pas les
>     fréquences mais nous faisons pourtant bien varier les sons."
>
> (From <http://www.alterinfo.net/LOI-SUR-LES-SONS_a67130.html>
> where you can read more similar nonsense)
>
> In plain English: if you hard clip a signal its frequency doesn't
> change but the sound does, so the concept of frequency must be
> wrong. That is 'The Third Law about Sound'. I'm still trying to
> grok the first two.
>
> Ciao,
>

Hello,
Sorry if i was taken seriously. I just wanted to translate my 
understanding of the link, which was today pretty refreshing to me.
Well, it's as crazy as trying to approximate a sine with an endless 
polynom... (but i still consider that fun :-)
Cheers,