Klarinet Archive - Posting 000840.txt from 2000/05

From: charette@-----.org
Subj: Re: [kl] Tone -- a neurological approach
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:23:26 -0400

Audrey wrote:
> Do we all agree what "green" means? Can we express or identify it?

The range of light that describes "green" can be objectively measured. If you called it "red" but gave me the measurements you used to determine it was "red" (you could measure the frequency and intensity of the light if you were scientific, or you could send me a card with the color on it as phtographers and paint shops use) I could translate it into my frame of reference without loss of the underlying information. In fact - isn't that exactly what paint shops do? They make up words like "bright fuschia" or "dark tangerine" - but we can take the paint samples home and make sense out of them - without regard to the words used to "describe" the color.

I've proposed some scheme of cataloging sound clips into different categories in at least 3 dimensions that would at least give a common frame of reference. Whether or not I ever get enough time to solidify the idea and get funding to start ...

It'd be a good master's thesis anyway for a musician with analytical bent (or a physicist/mathemetician with a musical proclivity).

Mark C.

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