Spectrum view of ascending Shepard tones Supercomposer Hans Zimmer used the Shepard tone extensively in the Dunkirk score and it is also found in several other Nolan films. He is clearly ...

A Shepard tone works by layering multiple different ... so to your brain it sounds like it’s one constant ascending tone. (Or descending.) As Vox’s Christophe Haubursin explains, “It ...