Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 06/12/2012 11:32 AM, Richard Dobson wrote: It is also a concept that needs clarification not least with respect to questions of temperament - do people with absolute pitch insist on 12T Equal Temperament based on A=440? Or it is a broad categorical distinction, like recognising red as red and

Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Dobson
On 12/06/2012 11:55, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 06/12/2012 11:32 AM, Richard Dobson wrote: It is also a concept that needs clarification not least with respect to questions of temperament - do people with absolute pitch insist on 12T Equal Temperament based on A=440? Or it is a broad

Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-12 Thread umashankar mantravadi
of a concert pitch standard. umashankar i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:22:00 +0100 From: richarddob...@blueyonder.co.uk To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?) On 12/06

Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-11 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 09:44:18AM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote: I find it useful in mnay cases to relate colour vision to auditory perfect pitch. People with the latter recognise the absolute pitch of a note, but may suffer from octave ambiguities, such that they are not sure whether one

Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-11 Thread etienne deleflie
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.orgwrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 09:44:18AM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote: I find it useful in mnay cases to relate colour vision to auditory perfect pitch. People with the latter recognise the absolute pitch of a note, but

Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-11 Thread Robert Greene
The initial meessage is also in my view something of a misconception of the meaning of perfect pitch --which ought to be called absolute pitch, since there is nothing perfect about it(no one has perfect resolution of pitch nor of anything else!). Absolute pitch is about MEMORY. Lots of

Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-06 Thread Peter Lennox
[mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Greene Sent: 04 June 2012 03:02 To: Eric Carmichel; Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?) Could I point out that in fact one does not know what auditory reality is like for other people whether

Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-06 Thread Michael Chapman
Gregory, R.L., (1996) Is your green as green as mine? in The Sunday Times, Science section 8th September 1996 Dr Peter Lennox At least one can describe green-greener-greenest, or loud- louder-loudest, or high-pitch---higher-pitch--- ... but colour is really an odd one: You can only describe

Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-06 Thread Peter Lennox
...@music.vt.edu [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Chapman Sent: 06 June 2012 13:58 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?) Gregory, R.L., (1996) Is your green as green as mine? in The Sunday Times, Science section 8th

Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 06 June 2012 12:57 + Michael Chapman s...@mchapman.com wrote: but what I see as green you may 'see' as red ... but we both call it green. I disagree; there is no meaning to saying what we see green as other than what we experience when we look at the colour which we agree to call

Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-03 Thread Robert Greene
Could I point out that in fact one does not know what auditory reality is like for other people whether or not they are hearing impaired? One supposes it is similar. And structurally it is similar--people tend to hear sound in the same locations under given circumstances. But literal sensation