Stereo-separated dissonance?

Does anyone here have any experience or know of scientific results
regarding the following situation:

How will the dissonance be experienced, if you separate the dissonant
tones from each other (one in the left ear, another in the right
ear), and there is no sound leaking between the both channels?

I do not trust my own ears on this, since my preference for what I'd
like the effect to be, inevitably messes up what I think I hear.

Thanks for any help,
Markus Miekk-oja

if the pitches are close together, this will produce what are called
"binaural beats" inside one's head, and also entrain your brainwaves to the
frequency of the beats. just do a search for "binaural beats" and youll find
tons of stuff.

Dante

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> Does anyone here have any experience or know of scientific results
> regarding the following situation:
>
> How will the dissonance be experienced, if you separate the dissonant
> tones from each other (one in the left ear, another in the right
> ear), and there is no sound leaking between the both channels?
>
> I do not trust my own ears on this, since my preference for what I'd
> like the effect to be, inevitably messes up what I think I hear.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Markus Miekk-oja
>
>
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--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Markus <torpet@p...>"
<torpet@p...> wrote:
> Does anyone here have any experience or know of scientific results
> regarding the following situation:
>
> How will the dissonance be experienced, if you separate the
dissonant
> tones from each other (one in the left ear, another in the right
> ear), and there is no sound leaking between the both channels?
>
> I do not trust my own ears on this, since my preference for what
I'd
> like the effect to be, inevitably messes up what I think I hear.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Markus Miekk-oja

you will be able to reduce some sources of dissonance by this method,
but not all. for example, the brain's central pitch processor tries
to understand the input from both ears in terms of a single harmonic
series, and the harder it is to do that, the more dissonance will be
experienced.

since this is a theory question, it might be better posed to the
tuning list than to this, practically oriented list.