Alli Melanson & Jackson Slattery: Dreamachine

Nov 13, 2025 - Dec 20, 2025

Shall I read the one which is here? The text?  It starts with two or more independent.

Here we go. Three, two, one. Two or more independent autonomous oscillators with differing rhythms or frequencies when situated in proximity where they can interact-

Sorry, can you start again from situated? Yeah. Situated in proximity where they can interact for long enough, influence each other mutually.

New sentence. They adjust until both oscillate with the same frequency. Christiaan Huygens discovered the phenomenon in 1655 during an experiment with pendulum clocks: He set them each in motion and found that when he returned the next day, the sway of their pendulums had all synchronized. Other examples include the cyclic synchronization of two electric clothes dryers placed in close proximity and the biological entrainment evident in the synchronized illumination of fireflies.

One second. Can you read from entrainment of synchronized, that part? I think close proximity was the last word.

And the biological entrainment evident in the synchronized illumination of fireflies.

Synchronized fireflies. Okay. New paragraph.

The term entrainment has been used to describe a shared tendency of many physical and biological systems to synchronize their periodicity and rhythm through interaction.

This tendency is specifically pertinent to the study of sound and music. The most familiar example of neuromotor entrainment to acoustic stimuli is observable in spontaneous foot or finger tapping to the rhythmic beat of a song.



Shall I read the one which is here? The text?  It starts with two or more independent.

Here we go. Three, two, one. Two or more independent autonomous oscillators with differing rhythms or frequencies when situated in proximity where they can interact-

Sorry, can you start again from situated? Yeah. Situated in proximity where they can interact for long enough, influence each other mutually.

New sentence. They adjust until both oscillate with the same frequency. Christiaan Huygens discovered the phenomenon in 1655 during an experiment with pendulum clocks: He set them each in motion and found that when he returned the next day, the sway of their pendulums had all synchronized. Other examples include the cyclic synchronization of two electric clothes dryers placed in close proximity and the biological entrainment evident in the synchronized illumination of fireflies.

One second. Can you read from entrainment of synchronized, that part? I think close proximity was the last word.

And the biological entrainment evident in the synchronized illumination of fireflies.

Synchronized fireflies. Okay. New paragraph.

The term entrainment has been used to describe a shared tendency of many physical and biological systems to synchronize their periodicity and rhythm through interaction.

This tendency is specifically pertinent to the study of sound and music. The most familiar example of neuromotor entrainment to acoustic stimuli is observable in spontaneous foot or finger tapping to the rhythmic beat of a song.



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