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 .HEADING 2 "Why Sound Design?"
 
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+Sometimes I wonder how many versions of rain I can make before it stops sounding like rain—still recognizable, still evoking the feeling. What if it becomes ghostly tonal water? Water that speaks unintelligibly? These questions don’t come from textbooks. They come from somewhere deeper—a need to understand how sound shapes perception, how it marks a world and makes it real. Sound design gives us tools for understanding how sound shapes our perception
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 Alternative tunings challenge the defaults embedded in our musical culture. The twelve-tone equal temperament that many accept as “correct” reflects a historical compromise—a flattened grid imposed on what should breathe and bend. By exploring alternative tunings, I push myself to think in a different language, to question ingrained habits and assumptions about harmony, consonance, and the boundaries of musical space.
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