The sharawadji effect is a musical perception or phenomenon regarding timbre and texture described by Claude Shryer as "a sensation of plenitude sometimes created by the contemplation of a complex soundscape whose beauty is inexplicable.
[2] Shryer described searching for this "state of awareness" by "tend[ing] an open ear in the hopes of experiencing the sublime beauty of a given sound in an unexpected context.
"[4] Seventeenth-century European travelers originally coined the term as an aesthetic effect that "comes about as a surprise and will carry you elsewhere, beyond strict representation — out of context."
The term sharawadji was said to originate from China[citation needed] and was understood as "the beauty that occurs with no discernible order or arrangement.
"[4] "All of us are searching for that enveloping soundscape that takes us beyond to indescribable realms of beauty, what the Persian philosophers once called the sharawadji effect.