// This looks at a number of periods of a given frequency starting at a certain time in the audio
// and returns an intensity value.
// No phase adjustment here, so you have to call this twice to get meaningful (complex) results.
srecord noeq SumOfVibrations(IAudioSample sample, int channel, double start, double freq, int periods) {
  double period, end;
  
  double rawSum() {
    period = sample.sampleRate()/freq;
    double sum = 0, t = start;
    for p to periods: {
      // Subtract an expected trough from an expected neighboring peak and add to overall sum.
      // Nota bene: Trough and peak have the same area (=length), so this is basically a Haar-like feature!
      // By the use of which we automatically get around nasty complications like DC offsets in the input data.
      
      sum += sample.sampleSum(channel, t, t+period/2)
           - sample.sampleSum(channel, t+period/2, t+period);
        
      t += period;
    }
    end = t;
    ret sum;
  }
  
  // alternate calculation adjusted for duration
  double sumDividedByDuration() {
    ret rawSum()/(end-start);
  }
}