-----Original Message----- From: David Bitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 5:45 PM Subject: [313] RE: Tone shifting, phantom sound, etc...
>John Lilly performed an >experiment with a tape loop of the word "cogitate" being played to a room >full of psychologists for about 15 minutes. They were instructed to record >the various word changes every time the tape changed. None of them knew that >the tape was a static loop. About 90 percent of the group came back with a >list of at least ten changes. This was an official psychological experiment >using other psychologists as the lab rats. On that note, try to track down "John Lilly in Loop" on the first April Records comp. Excellent track, excellent comp. And... good for toneshifting. >How elementary for the mind to >need to split a repetitive non-melody into the opposition of two. Moving >from the static "one" of nothing to the newly created "two" of something. I >was always curious about this. I think much of the melodic projection is >also based on the timbrality, tuning, and harmonics of the instruments (drum >sounds, synths, etc..) being used. Therefore the melodies and shifts seem >intimately related to the actuality of the piece itself and therefore more >inherent, as in exisiting, yet not quite manifest. I think you characterized this all really well in terms of splittling one into many. This is what a bunch of French dudes believe is the beginning of consciousness. An artificial schizm that differentiates objects "in the world" from the undifferentiated whole. Perhaps it's a silly idea to try and pack a lifetime of a philospoher's thought into one sentence, but you get the idea. But there are so many factors involved in breaking this down and understanding the phenomenon (like anything else). Why do we get tired of the loop after a while? After how much time do we get bored, and does this vary with different songs, and do different people respond differently? I think this is what Darw_n is after. But I think these are unanswerables. To *precisely* analyse any of this in the way that cognitive scientists do, is impossible because you're trying to measure vaguely defined emotions in unquantifiable increments. To discuss Toneshifting here any more than we already have (twice) goes way beyond the scope of this list. Let's all listen to Dutch ambience and hallucinate!!! :) Tristan ========================================== Ten mixes, one album, various tracks, pics and info here: http://phonopsia.tripod.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] <FrogboyMCI> on AOL IM "Deserve's Got Nothing to Do With it". -Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
