At one point, Chast and company were instructed by their guide, the artist Andrea Polli, to pair up for a hearing experiment.
The purpose of the subjective hearing experiment in this section is to compare the sound localization performance of the original HRTFs and the predicted HRTFs.
It's good to hear some experiments.
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.
We are already seeing that it's becoming easier to modify the genome, and we heard about experiments on the influenza virus to make it more virulent and transmissible.
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.
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.
A lugubrious Chilean philosopher they meet there takes centre stage in "The Part about Amalfitano", conducting Duchampian experiments, hearing voices in his head and worrying about his daughter: women are being murdered in Santa Teresa, though the critics barely notice.
While studying and living a bohemian life in Palo Alto, Kesey heard of government experiments with "psychomimetic" drugs, and he was under the influence of peyote when he wrote the first few pages of Cuckoo's Nest.
Hearing about the experiment, staff at one teaching hospital were convinced they couldn't be duped so easily.
