Klarinet Archive - Posting 000671.txt from 2002/05

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] A Colour Symphony op. 24
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 18:50:20 -0400

From: William Wright [mailto:w7wright@-----.net]

Mark, I don't want to get backed into a corner because I *DO AGREE* with
some of what you say, but.....

Humans *do* separate one note from the next (edge detection), and they
*do* detect differences in attack and inflection and sound character
(shape analysis), and the concept of motion certainly is part of music
(I defy you to listen to Nutcracker or Seventy-Six Trombones without
thinking of motion).
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No problem, Bill - neither one of those pieces relate to motion in my mind
at all. You're positing your perceptions of music as being the same as mine,
and that's a dangerous proposition.

Bill, I know something about visual perception and aural perception, and
they don't work the same way. You might also want to do some reading of the
critical reviews of Descartes' Error. Not everyone agrees with all of
Damasio's hypotheses. Though the book is interesting reading.

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