People typically cease breathing in hearing experiments when they are trying to perceive speech of very low amplitude (Parivash Ranjbahr, personal communication).
When Mr. Bays sang, "Says she's got it all, says she's got it all, says she's got it/I don't wanna be the one to tell her that she don't," part of the fun was hearing him experiment with rock 'n' roll dialect.
This culminated in the 1991 Heard Island experiment, in which sound signals were transmitted from instruments 150 metres (492 feet) below the ocean's surface to receivers around the world.
In one experiment, hearing participants performed the tasks with overt speech, and in a second experiment, deaf participants performed the tasks in ASL.
Hearing about the experiment, staff at one teaching hospital were convinced they couldn't be duped so easily.
It's good to hear some experiments.
Interesting, though, to hear him experimenting with two takes on the same text – "L'Amante impaziente" ("The Impatient Lover") – one flippantly comical, the other full of pathos.
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