g2: Rotation and stretching of harp glissando


In the figures below we show how the structure g2 is a rotation and stretching over a longer time-scale of the harp glissando g1.  The image on the left is a spectrogram of the passage that constains both the harp glissando structure g1 and the longer structure g2.  The middle image shows a spectrogram with the structure g2 selectively amplified (the other sounds are left unaffected, an altering of the figure-ground relations in the passage)---we can hear the harp notes more clearly standing out from the background.  Finally, the image on the right shows a spectrogram with the structure g2 isolated.  We can hear the harp notes clearly ascending in a long stretched out glissando of harp notes.

                       passage containing structure g2         Passage with g2 amplified         Passage with only structure g2
                         Passage containing g1 and g2         g2 amplified, other sonorities intact                  Only the structure g2
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Finally in the figure below, we show a zooming in on this last spectrogram over one octave between 160 and 320 Hz.   The resemblance to (at least part) of the structure g1 is striking.

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                                                                                                  Zooming in on only the structure g2

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