Researches of Isabelle Sabrié
founders of the rhythm-space harmony and its creations
Scientific confirmations
Earth Bioacoustic Regular Pulsation, documentary in English, was entirely conceived and produced by Isabelle Sabrié in 2012, to explain her hypothesis, starting to demonstrate and measure them. Posted on youtube in 2012, they began to receive scienfic confirmations in 2017 and 2019, in articles of the New-York Academy of Sciences, Brain Sciences, Journal of the Royal Society.
Relative pulsations 72-96: at 28´57
96 measured for the human speech pulsation: at 29´29.
Answering objections: articles of Isabelle Sabrié. contato@isabellesabrie.com
HYPOTHESIS AND CONFIRMATIONS
HYPOTHESIS of Isabelle Sabrié, 2012
There is a common pulse (underlying isochrony) in the terrestrial biophony: Earth Bioacoustic Regular Pulsation. [Observation: when several pulsations are found in the biophony, it is important to verify how they can be “relatives”¹ to each other, and to a unique pulsation.]
NEW-YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 2019 (p.89)
“The observed commonality in so many different recordings of communicative interactions suggests an intriguing hypothesis: both human and nonhuman communicative interactions of all kinds may manifest the same, unique kind of hierarchical temporal structure that depends on the particular communicative function, and less so on the species or means of sound production. Such a result, if corroborated, would indicate that speech, music, and animal vocalizations all follow a common pattern of hierarchical temporal structure.»
And: “Vocalizations of many species exhibit temporal structure, but little is known about how these rhythmic structures evolved, are perceived and produced, their biological and developmental bases, and communicative functions. We review the literature on rhythm in speech and animal vocalizations as a first step toward understanding similarities and differences across species. ” (p 79)
Ravignani, A., Dalla Bella, S., Falk, S., Kello, C.T., Noriega, F., Kotz, S.A. 2019. Rhythm in speech and animal vocalizations: a cross-species perspective. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1453 (2019) 79–98. p 89
SOME DEFINITIONS, interdisciplinary translations and equivalences (in French): https://isabellesabrie.com/lharmonie-rythmico-spatiale/confirmacoes-cientificas/?lang=fr/#definitions
HYPOTHESIS of Isabelle Sabrié, 2012
Theory of relative pulsations: measured by the ear with a metronome, the numbers found, 72bpm and 96bpm, are multiples of 24 and 12. They are then multiples of simple integer numbers (2,3), and called “relative pulsations” by Isabelle Sabrié (documentary Earth bioacustic regular pulsation, at 28´57).
Measure: 96bpm, pulsation (beat) of the human speech (documentary Earth bioacustic regular pulsation, at 29´29).
In Brain Sciences article of 2019 below, it is interesting to note that the beats chosen to test the human speech and singing, 84, 96, 108 and 120 bpm, are all multiples of 12. They also are “relative pulsations” of 96bpm, measured for the human speech by Isabelle Sabrié in 2012.
REVISTA BRAIN SCIENCES, 2019 (p.7)
“In the spoken/sung tapping blocks, each participant was presented with 12 each of naturally spoken sentences, regularly spoken sentences, and sung sentences at the original rate (120 bpm), and six sentences in each condition at the slower rate (96 bpm)… …In the demonstration, a different sentence was used for each condition, and each was presented at a different rate (84 bpm or 108 bpm) than the ones used in the experiment.“
Lagrois M.-E., Palmer C., Peretz I. 2019.Poor Synchronization to Musical Beat Generalizes to Speech. Brain Sci. 2019;9:157. doi: 10.3390/brainsci9070157. p7
HYPOTHESIS of Isabelle Sabrié, 2012
There is a pulsation (underlying isochrony) of the human speech, common to all languages: Earth Bioacoustic Regular Pulsation, at 29´29
THE ROYAL SOCIETY PUBLISHING, 2017 (p.8)
« More work is needed to investigate this interpretation, but we can conclude that AF functions captured hierarchical temporal structure common to human speech, regardless of the inventories of phonemes, syllables, words, and sentences being spoken, and regardless of the cultural context.»
Kello, C.T., Dalla Bella, S., Médé, B. & Balasubramaniam, R. 2017. Hierarchical temporal structure in music, speech and animal vocalizations: jazz is like a conversation, humpbacks sing like hermit thrushes. J. R. Soc. Interface 14:20170231. p8
¹ Biomimesis y música. La harmonia rítmico-espacial. Isabelle Sabrié. Revista de BIOMIMESIS, Abril de 2022. Volumen 1, p 41. 
Red Internacional, Interuniversitária e Interinstitucional de Estudios sobre Biomimesis.
Biomimese e música. A harmonia rítmico-espacial à luz do Pensamento Complexo de Edgar Morin. Isabelle Sabrié. Arco Editores (Brasil), nº33, e-book O LABIRINTO DA COMPLEXIDADE: UM TRIBUTO AOS 100 ANOS DE EDGAR MORIN. Agosto de 2021. Capitúlo 1, p13. 