Joana
remembered how once, a few months after she was married, she had
tirned to her husband to ask him something. They were out. And before
she´d even finished her sentence, to Octávio´s surprise, she had
stopped- brow furrowed, gaze amused. Ah- she had realized- she´d
just repeated one of the voices she´d heard so often when she was
single, always vaguely perplexed. The voice of a young woman besides
her man. As her own had rung out just then to Octávio: sharp, empty,
soaring upwards, with identical, clear notes. Something unfinished,
ecstatic, somewhat satiated. Trying to scream… Bright days, clear
and dry, sexless day voice and days, choir boys in an outdoor mass.
And something lost, heading for mild despair… That newlywed timbre
had a history, a fragile history taht went unnoticed by the owner of
the voice, but not by the owner of this one
Pitch,
loudness and timbre are three characteristics of sonic waves that
can be explained by physics magnitudes. Pitch is related with
frecuency, high-pitched sounds with high frecuencies and deep voices
(like if you are inside a clay pot) belong to the low frecuencies.
Loudness, which is usually measured in decibels, corresponds with the
intensity and the amplitude of the wave.
Lastly,
the today physic concept is timbre, which is what makes you
distinguish one sound from another, a violin from a piano, for
instance. The timbre depends on the shape of the wave, each sound has
a special shape that makes it unique. This peculiar shape never is
the perfect armonic one that physicists draw. I didn´t know that, as
the text suggests, the timbre is also influenced by the marital
status of the focal point of the wave
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