Ciliate tuba
By Sravya Darbhamulla
When the spirit is level
Makes mu-music-math
A haiku on the inner-ear mechanisms that lead to perceptions of music: the physiology of the ear and the acoustic-electric transform; and a reference to inner-ear fluid being balanced.
Further reading:
‘Neuroanatomy, Auditory Pathway’, 2023, Peterson DC, Reddy V, Launico MV, et al., Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing. Available: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532311/
‘Why do humans like jazz? (evolution of music, entropy, and physics of neurons)’, 2023, Physics of Birds YouTube channel. Available: https://youtu.be/Gc5eICzHkFU?si=UTkvJ_j9yMpn1cnx
Author bio:
Sravya Darbhamulla is an archivist, translator and aspiring interdisciplinary researcher with a background in linguistics. She can be found on X/Twitter @acuriousshawl.