On 11 Jun 2012, at 18:44, Fons Adriaensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> and the extremities of the range don't map onto each other. For one, if they didn't map onto each other, we didn't have the concept of octaves and that an C is somehow a C regardless of which octave it's from. So the circling of octaves is somewhat analogous to the circle of colors. Sure, a C in one octave differs from the C in another octave by pitch, but so can orange of the same hue differ from another orange of the same hue, by having different saturation or brightness. Color is in any sense as many dimensional as sound. We neither perceive color nor sound as "frequency" and therefore the relative frequency range doesn't matter when comparing the two. Further, since there are people with considerable synaesthesia, if we consider that a cognitive defect, strength, or just "otherness" doesn't matter, but for such people sound and color clearly map onto each other. You'd be hard pressed to tell a person like that, that there is no correspondence between sound and color... Ronald _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
