"The notes themselves—the sound waves, that is—are heard alike by musician and nonmusician and are universally acknowledged to be real in the purely physical sense. But what about the melody itself? Is it something real or does it exist only in the mind or imagination […] The musician does not need to have "faith" that there is a melody, nor does he have to accept the existence of the melody on some scriptural authority; he obviously has a direct experience of the melody itself. And once the melody is heard, it is impossible ever again to doubt it."
(Richard #Smullyan, The #Tao Is Silent) #perception #PhilosophyOfPerception #Music #MusicPerception #Psychophysics

The notes themselves—the sound waves, that is—are heard alike by musician and nonmusician and are universally acknowledged to be real in the purely physical sense. But what about the melody itself? Is it something real or does it exist only in the mind or imagination […] The musician does not need to have "faith" that there is a melody, nor does he have to accept the existence of the melody on some scriptural authority; he obviously has a direct experience of the melody itself. And once the melody is heard, it is impossible ever again to doubt it.
(Richard #Smullyan, The #Tao Is Silent) #perception #PhilosophyOfPerception #Music #MusicPerception #Psychophysics

"A brick in the wall": reconstruction of a @PinkFloyd song from recorded neural activity, revealing involvement of the #SuperiorTemporalGyrus in information processing during #MusicPerception. Implications for #BrainComputerInterface #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/47zOgve

An excerpt from Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus about #music and ambiguity:
« Relationship [in music] is everything. And if you want to give it a more precise name, it is "ambiguity." To illustrate the meaning of the word, he played for me chord-progressions belonging to no definite key; demonstrated for me how such a progression fluctuates between C major and G major, if one leaves out the F [...] how it keeps the ear uncertain [...] "You know what I find?" he asked. "That music turns the equivocal into a system. Take this or that note. You can understand it so or respectively so. You can think of it as sharpened or flattened, and you can, if you are clever, take advantage of the double sense as much as you like." »
This somewhat echoes the conclusion of a scientific paper by Pressnitzer, Suied and Shamma on #Auditory Scene Analysis :
« Music is an especially challenging stimulus to make sense, as most of it is abstract without any clear reference to an external object. By embedding several latent perceptual organizations into complex acoustical scenes, music may well be able to challenge the listener with a rich set of possibilities that can be freely entertained, with no other potential consequence than being surprised, rejoiced, or moved. » https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00158/full #ASA #AuditorySceneAnalysis #MusicPerception #Cognition #CognitiveScience

An excerpt from Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus about #music and ambiguity:
« Relationship [in music] is everything. And if you want to give it a more precise name, it is "ambiguity." To illustrate the meaning of the word, he played for me chord-progressions belonging to no definite key; demonstrated for me how such a progression fluctuates between C major and G major, if one leaves out the F [...] how it keeps the ear uncertain [...] "You know what I find?" he asked. "That music turns the equivocal into a system. Take this or that note. You can understand it so or respectively so. You can think of it as sharpened or flattened, and you can, if you are clever, take advantage of the double sense as much as you like. »
This somewhat echoes the conclusion of a scientific paper by Pressnitzer, Suied and Shamma on #auditory Scene Analysis :
« Music is an especially challenging stimulus to make sense, as most of it is abstract without any clear reference to an external object. By embedding several latent perceptual organizations into complex acoustical scenes, music may well be able to challenge the listener with a rich set of possibilities that can be freely entertained, with no other potential consequence than being surprised, rejoiced, or moved. » https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00158/full #ASA #AuditorySceneAnalysis #MusicPerception #Cognition #CognitiveScience

An excerpt from Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus about #music and ambiguity:
« Relationship [in music] is everything. And if you want to give it a more precise name, it is "ambiguity." To illustrate the meaning of the word, he played for me chord-progressions belonging to no definite key; demonstrated for me how such a progression fluctuates between C major and G major, if one leaves out the F [...] how it keeps the ear uncertain [...] "You know what I find?" he asked. "That music turns the equivocal into a system. Take this or that note. You can understand it so or respectively so. You can think of it as sharpened or flattened, and you can, if you are clever, take advantage of the double sense as much as you like. »
This somewhat echoes the conclusion of a scientific paper by Pressnitzer, Suied and Shamma on #auditory Scene Analysis :
« Music is an especially challenging stimulus to make sense, as most of it is abstract without any clear reference to an external object. By embedding several latent perceptual organizations into complex acoustical scenes, music may well be able to challenge the listener with a rich set of possibilities that can be freely entertained, with no other potential consequence than being surprised, rejoiced, or moved. » https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00158/full #ASA #AuditorySceneAnalysis #MusicPerception

By way of #introduction, I've been a recording engineer, a music technology specialist, a magazine writer and a digital designer.

I'm writing a book for music lovers, about how we get our music preferences, why our preferences differ, whether we can change them... that sort of thing.

I sing with Crouch End Festival Chorus.

#MusicScience
#MusicPsychology
#Musicology
#Neuromusic
#Neuroaesthetics
#Psychoacoustics
#CulturalStudies
#MusicPerception
#MusicCognition
#Music

By way of #introduction, I'm writing a book for music lovers, about how we get our music preferences, why our preferences differ, whether we can change them... that sort of thing.

I've also been a recording engineer, music technology specialist, magazine writer and digital designer. I sing with @TheChoir.

#MusicScience
#MusicPsychology
#Musicology
#NeuroMusicology
#NeuroAesthetics
#PsychoAcoustics
#CulturalStudies
#MusicPerception
#MusicCognition
#Music
#Aesthetics

A bit of #introduction about me ⌨️
I am doing #livecoding, specifically #livecodingmusic, and I love #creativecoding practices. I use #SuperCollider to make #synths and I am passionate for #hardware #synthesizers and #electronics. My artistic practice is #generativeart, specifically, I use #generativealgorithms for #music. I have studied #musicpsychology and #musicperception and I am a #phdstudent in #musicinteraction and #musicalinteractiondesign.