Simulated vocal folds hum an elevator chime, slowing floor by floor into an eerie chord

repligate · x · 2026-11-16

A striking physics-simulation demo: the author drives three simulated vocal folds (self-oscillating valves feeding waveguide-tube "throats") with ten seconds of their own voice to hum an elevator chime. Slowed floor by floor, each level drops a semitone, vocal-fry creak in a longer tube becomes the bass, and the last floor goes minor—with the dial and needle animation synced to the same timings as the audio.

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