In music, a Shepard tone is self-similar in the frequency or wavelength domains.

A Shepard tone is another illustrative example of a strange loop.

When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the Shepard scale.

* Shepard tone

One example of an auditory illusion is a Shepard tone.

When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upward or downward, it is referred to as the Shepard scale.

Each square in the figure indicates a tone, any set of squares in vertical alignment together making one Shepard tone.

As a conceptual example of an ascending Shepard scale, the first tone could be an almost inaudible C ( 4 ) ( middle C ) and a loud C ( 5 ) ( an octave higher ).

The scale as described, with discrete steps between each tone, is known as the discrete Shepard scale.

Black Emperor used the Shepard tone at various points in their 1997 album F ♯ A ♯ ∞.

* In The Dark Knight and the follow up The Dark Knight Rises a Shepard tone was used to create the sound of the ' Batpod ' - a motorcycle that the filmmakers didn't want to change gear and tone abruptly but to constantly ascend.

* The partials of a Shepard tone

* Demonstration of discrete Shepard tone ( requires Macromedia Shockwave )

* the Shepard tone or scale, and the Deutsch tritone paradox

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The song ends using a Shepard tone, with a chord progression built on ascending and descending lines in the bass and strings, repeated over and over as the song fades.

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Tenney's work deals with perception ( For Ann ( rising ), see Shepard tone ), just intonation ( Clang, see gestalt ), stochastic elements ( Music for Player Piano ), information theory ( Ergodos, see ergodic theory ), and with what he called ' swell ' ( Koan: Having Never Written A Note For Percussion for John Bergamo ), which is basically arch form.

Each Shepard tone consists of a set of octave related sinusoids, whose amplitudes are scaled by a fixed bell shaped spectral envelope based on a log frequency scale.

The second manned spacecraft was named Freedom 7, and it performed a sub-orbital spaceflight in 1961 carrying American astronaut Alan Shepard to an altitude of just over.

* 1961-US, a Mercury capsule named Freedom 7 with Alan B. Shepard, spacecraft was launched by a Redstone rocket on a ballistic trajectory suborbital flight.

The number of trobairitz varies between sources: there were twenty or twenty-one named trobairitz, plus an additional poetess known only as Domna H. There are several anonymous texts ascribed to women ; the total number of trobairitz texts varies from twenty-three ( Schultz-Gora ), twenty-five ( Bec ), thirty-six ( Bruckner, White, and Shepard ), and forty-six ( Rieger ).

* Matthew Shepard, gay male murder victim for whom the Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Act is named

North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead, for whom the city of Morehead City is named was also a principal member of the Shepard Point Land Company investment group.

The Living Theatre was also heavily influenced by him, as was much English-language experimental theatre and performance art ; Karen Finley, Spalding Gray, Liz LeCompte, Richard Foreman, Charles Marowitz, Sam Shepard, Joseph Chaikin, and more all named Artaud as one of their influences.

Bahia is also the home of the " Museo de Naturaleza y Cultura ", established in 1988, by an American named Carolina Shepard and built by volunteers.

John learns that the fingerprints belong to a now-retired detective named Jack Shepard ( Shawn Doyle ).

Many of the elementary schools in the Old Bridge Township Public School System are named after astronauts, such as Alan B. Shepard, Gordon Cooper, and Scott Carpenter.

In a nod to his earlier spacecraft, Shepard named # 15B " Freedom 7-II ".

Stu Shepard ( Colin Farrell ) is an arrogant and cocky married New York City publicist who has been seeing a woman named Pam ( Katie Holmes ) behind his wife Kelly's ( Radha Mitchell ) back.

Stephen J. Adler of The Wall Street Journal was named to succeed Shepard as editor in chief at Businessweek.

The piece is based upon the Shepard scale concept, named after Tenney's colleague at Bell Labs psychologist Roger Shepard, though the technique which the piece uses is more properly described as a continuous Risset scale or Shepard-Risset glissando ( Polansky 2003 ).

The Washington Post reported, as to the photographs of the hanging, that: " Not since they confronted snapshots of a slightly built young man named Matthew Shepard and the fence where he was left for dead in 1998 by two drug-addled no-hopers in Laramie, Wyo., have gay people been so agitated by a set of photographic images.

The final addition to the band was drummer Kevin Shepard, who was recruited at an L. A. venue named Masker's Cafe.

" He later tells NCIS Director Jenny Shepard that he is working on his fourth boat, and that he named one of the previous boats after his ( then current ) wife when he finished it, then burned it after their divorce.

Shepard Island was discovered by the United States Antarctic Service ( USAS ) Expedition ( 1939 – 1941 ) and named for John Shepard, Jr., a contributor to the expedition.

They adopted three children, Finley Jay, named for Finley Johnson Shepard and Jay Gould, and Olivia, named for Helen's dear friend Mrs. Russell Sage, and Helen Anna, named for Helen and her sister, Anna and had one foster child, Louis Seton.

Shepard Fairey rose to fame after his " Andre the Giant Has a Posse " sticker campaign, in which his art was plastered in cities across America.

* 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.

In early 1964 Alan Shepard was grounded after being diagnosed with Ménière's disease and Grissom was designated command pilot for Gemini 3, the first manned Project Gemini flight, which flew on March 23, 1965.

Named after Roger Shepard, it is a sound consisting of a superposition of tones separated by octaves.

* October 10, 1906: Cleveland, Ohio Harry Smith shot and killed 22-year-old teacher Mary Shepard at South Euclid School after she had rejected him.

Shepard began his naval career after graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1944, and served on the destroyer USS Cogswell while it was deployed in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

The city was mentioned in worldwide news coverage in 1998 after the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming.

The crew of Gemini 3 was changed after Shepard was grounded with an inner ear disorder in late 1964.

The killer checked, and tightened Hartnell's bonds after discovering Shepard had bound Hartnell's hands loosely.

" Lane, who came out publicly after the death of Matthew Shepard, has been a long-time board member of and fundraiser for Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS, and has been honored by the Human Rights Campaign, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and The Trevor Project for his work in the LGBT community.

In January 1974, he became Chief of the Astronaut Office after the retirement of Alan Shepard.

The others have been: Apollo 14 Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr., who died of leukemia in 1998, Apollo 12 Commander Charles " Pete " Conrad, Jr., who died in a motorcycle accident in California in 1999, and Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong, who died after heart surgery on August 25, 2012.

Dirkhising's death received only regional media coverage until a Washington Times article ran a story nearly a month after his death, noting the lack of national coverage in contrast to that given to the 1998 death of Matthew Shepard.

Signing with London's LO-MAX Records, Shepard found equal enthusiasm for the demos and after making some tentative enquiries, discovered a hotbed of interest for Ayers ' work amongst the current generation of musicians.

The most publicized incident was the murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming after two young men kidnapped, tortured, and murdered him in 1998.

* In 1998 after the kidnapping and murder of Matthew Shepard, a Wyoming college student, the major American news networks would occasionally mention that the student's parents lived in Dhahran and worked for Saudi Aramco.

Shepard is presumed dead after a struggle with Frank and Frank is cleared of charges.

He dropped out after two years, however, and returned to Rochester, where he married his first wife, Anne Shepard, in 1909.

* " Kelly Watch the Stars " is used in the 2010 film Exit Through the Gift Shop during the moped ride, shortly after Thierry meets Shepard Fairey.

Shepard attended The Juilliard School's preparatory division, training in piano and composition, leaving after his third year, in 1949.

" According to Shepard, Comics Kingdom was planned to break even a year after its launch by splitting ad revenue with newspapers carrying the feature ; those papers make local sales, while King handles national sales.

Ten years after graduating from high school, three friends, Jerry ( Matthew Lillard ), Dan ( Seth Green ) and Tom ( Dax Shepard ) learn that their childhood friend, Billy ( Antony Starr ), died in a para-sailing accident in Costa Rica.