Disclosure

Most of the present day research for BioAcoustics using voice spectral analysis has been done by a corporation called Signature Sound Works, Inc.(SSW), AKA Sound Health Inc. Guided by the very unusual healing ability of the founder, it was shown that people emit sounds that are in a range not normally perceived.

The first publication concerning this work was published as a graduating thesis by Sharry Edwards in 1982. In that initial paper, Sharry was very cautious about revealing that she had a very unusual ability. She could hear sounds from people that were not normally perceived. A hearing test revealed that she could hear well above the normal range and equally surprising, could produce sine waves with her voice. The production of sine waves by anything other than a machine is quite unusual. She has been tested in three labs, including one at Wright Patterson Airforce Base to prove the point that her voice is unique.

Sharry was cautioned by her professors and colleagues to keep this information to herself. How could she be hearing sounds being emitted from the side of a person's head. After all, there was nothing there to create a sound and certainly the ear was incapable of making sounds. Later, Wendell Browne of Johns Hopkins University published several papers indicating that the ear is capable of emitting a sound that he called oto-acoustic emissions. He assumed that the stapes muscles in the ear were responsible. A recent work by James P. Cowan, Environmental Acoustics, states that the actual formation of the ear canal only lends itself to creating sounds that range from F-A. The sounds that Sharry heard contained a full range of notes over several octaves.

The research at SSW leads us to believe that the brain creates frequencies that are amplified through the brain fluids. [Liquid is a highly efficient sound conductive source.] The sounds created by the brain are then amplified by the ear and this is what is audible. From being able to hear the sounds being emitted, we were able to use trial and error to correlate sound with diseases and muscles. Being able to have clues that sent us in the right direction made the entire field easier to develop. The work with Signature Sound and BioAcoustics has been made possible from this talent that was perceived, at first, as very esoteric. Today modern computers and electronics have made it possible for the ideas of BioAcoustics to be moved from the realm of disbelief and fear to one of repeatable science and technology. The goal of SSW has been one of education because we believe that what people don't understand, they fear. It has been our mission to prove that what Sharry is capable of doing can be duplicated through technology.

"I feel very fortunate to have been able to contribute many of the clues that has made this particular branch of BioAcoustics possible," states Edwards when she is questioned. "I will continue to work with those persons who are non verbal and hopefully, in the very near future, we will be able to develop a microphone that will determine the body frequencies without the need for voice spectral analysis. Eventually we will be able to use this technique with animals and in the not too distant future, to help our environment," she states from her usual visionary perspective.

            

 

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