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OT The Speech-to-Song Illusion

2010-09-11 by rupert chappelle

There has been great "debate" over avant-garde music and it's validity in the 
theremin "community", albeit one sided as of late as other sides simply cannot 
be tolerated in some matters by some folks  and I think that this study and 
experiment explains why patterns are not perceived as patterns until the brain 
has been taught to do so.


http://www.acoustics.org/press/156th/deutsch.html

Musicality, has to be taught, or closely repeated, for it to be registered as a 
music.

I think it is interesting that the tune was repeated precisely by different 
listeners so much so that they could be multitracked as if they were working 
together. The music is meta or above the individual particpants. Multitracking 
with the theremin produces the same effect as the piece exists outside of the 
individual tracks and is simply put together like a puzzle. I have also noticed 
that differnt pieces can be played together at the same time and act as a whole, 
just as parts are played together to produce a piece.

The form exists outside of the artist and participant.
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Often, when confronted with new forms of music, it is dismissed as noise or that 
it all sounds alike until the patterns and forms have been learned. I have found 
that the more you pay attention, the more you hear music everywhere.

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