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A real wave, an audible translation

Ultrasound · Beyond hearing

Ultrasound is sound above the typical hearing range. The experience does not play megahertz audio; it maps the relationships into an audible sonification.
02 · What we can say

Experience / metaphorEstablished

Digital audio cannot directly represent frequencies above the sample rate's Nyquist frequency; 1–10 MHz is therefore presented here as audible sonification.

Sources for this claim

  1. Web Audio API specificationWorld Wide Web Consortium (W3C) · 2021
Thought experiment

What changes when the sound is clearly a map, not the thing itself?