Klarinet Archive - Posting 000798.txt from 2004/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Measuring sound character
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:30:07 -0400

At 12:47 PM 7/20/2004 +0100, Tony Pay wrote:
>The implication of what Pyne said is that there is no way to choose, amongst
>the infinite number of differences and similarities between two graphs, which
>differences and similarities to concentrate on. Our ear/brain systems, which
>have evolved inner templates against which we match incoming sounds, have
>'their own notions' of what the important differences are. And though all of
>us *embody* them, we don't understand intellectually, or analytically, very
>much at all about those mechanisms.

Exactly. Nobody has figured out what differences are significant, or how
large they have to be to be audible. Until they do, subjectivity will
reign supreme.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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