interference beat

Interference beats are used to objectively measure the accuracy of tuning.

His music most often deals with drones and interference beats, the latter aligning his music with that of Alvin Lucier.

In the religious ceremonies that contain gamelan, these interference beats are meant to give the listener a feeling of a god's presence or a stepping stone to a meditative state.

During 1897, while testing this in communicating between two ships in the Baltic Sea, he took note of an interference beat caused by the passage of a third vessel.

His electroacoustic music deals with monolithic drones and interference beats, and overall features a deep appreciation for slow durations, exotic harmonic relationships, and process-based phenomenon.

Interference beats are highlighted (as the only apparent rhythm) and, as "an elegant touch," the microtonal pitches that produce those beats "are worked into a larger pattern of pitch relations".

Balinese gamelan instruments are commonly played in pairs which are tuned slightly apart to produce interference beats, ideally at a consistent speed for all pairs of notes in all registers.