Label sound level

The next effect, labeled "sense of potentiality," starts off at a zero level but at around 50 first manifests itself as an awareness of some sort of chant or humming sound identified with the feeling that more and more experience is potentially available.f51 The specific form of the chant is lost but this sense of potentiality increases linearly from this point, until around 80 william feels that an infinite range of experience is potentially available, so this phenomenon levels off. 

In order to program this hypothesis we devised a representation technique called Abstract Sound Schema (ASS). The ASS is a tree-like abstract structure consisting of nodes, slots and links. Nodes and slots are components and links correspond to the relations between them. Both components and relations are labelled on the ASS. Slots are grouped bottom-up into higher-level nodes, which in turn are grouped into higher-level nodes and so on until the top node (Figure 7.2). 

The role of the ASS is twofold it embodies a multi-level representation of the synthesis instrument and also provides an abstraction to represent sounds (Figure 7.3). In practice, each slot has a user-defined label and accommodates either a sound s)mthesis datum or a pointer towards a procedure to calculate this datum. Higher-level nodes also have user-... 

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