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Different threads in music

I'm done with Christmas Cards

Not particularly related to ASD except that we all seem to love music so much & it's something positive/happy that I thought I'd share:

I sometimes absolutely love paying attention to the bits of music that most people probably don't notice, for example focussing on just the bass guitar, or the hi-hat, or the little twiddles and odd sounds that get thrown into the mix here and there. Sometimes gives me goose bumps.

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  • Me too - I disassemble records in my head to understand the styles of each of the musicians.

    I particularly like the missing notes where the other music around a space creates a false impression in your brain that a note has actually happened - but it's not there - it's a space - you're brain doesn't like the gap and wants to hear it so creates a phantom note - every time.

  • in reply to Plastic

    As an aside, I find that reading scientific papers like the one I linked to can be so easy, with the meaning flowing at high rate into my brain quite effortlessly, whereas if I read fiction I sometimes just don't get sentences despite reading them several times. As an example, "The analysis of low-frequency phase locking at soundless strong-beat positions enabled us to further disentangle the manifestation of neural synchronization from stimulus-driven evoked responses." makes instant sense to me, and I know that many people would find it to be nothing but a jumble of long words.

  • in reply to I'm done with Christmas Cards

    Yeah - technical documents are much easer to read - only the big words are important - the rest is just filler and bridging/linking words to hold it together.

    Fiction is difficult - so many words, so little content and it can change direction within a sentence.   Hate it..   Sometimes have to read the same page a couple of times to 'get it'.

    Give me a Haynes Manual any day.

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  • in reply to Plastic

    Definitely an interesting topic............I think you quite rapidly lose something as you start to strip things away (although if the music were quite simple to start with maybe.....). A bit like (if I remember my chemistry) acetone smells like pear drops - but wouldn't compare to an *actual* bag of pear drops, especially if smelled whilst standing in an old-skool sweet shop............

    There's something about the "space around notes", where you get a sense of the acoustic environment revealed by the decay and reverberation - & probably parts of the music that audiophiles used to berate mini-disc for (ATRAC coding?) taking away.

    Psychoacoustics is both a lovely word and an interesting topic!

  • in reply to I'm done with Christmas Cards

    Yeah - but doing the Fourier Analysis and stripping out all of the harmonics to pare it down to maybe 5 or 6 basic tones - just how much can be stripped out and still get the same effect.

  • in reply to Plastic

    Well in one sense, it *is* a selection of sine waves - just many of them, superposed with the appropriate phase and amplitude. They are certainly masters, especially when using music to pull in the opposite direction to the visual.

  • in reply to I Am Who I Am

    I think the people who do good film scores are the masters of using our emotions against us.    I suspect it's the visual stimulus as well - but the music can crank my emotions around at will.

    I wonder if it was just a selection of Sine waves, would it have the same impact?

  • in reply to Plastic

    Hehe. 100% agree on that. I haven't read a fictional book since school when I had to. It just doesn't sink in and takes far more effort than it is worth, yet I love reading reference and technical material.

    On the music front I find different music causes different emotions, regardless of the style or lyrics, etc. I love playing the keyboard and find certain keys and styles let me get emotions out.

    My theory on this is that we have a deep seeded subconscious relationship to sounds and sequences of sounds that we probably used before we discovered a word based language.

    I keep experimenting to see if I can minimise the emotional sequences to the bare minimum with a strong impact. I am sure there is some researched science on it somewhere but haven't gone down that route yet.

  • in reply to Plastic

    Yes, and the filler / bridging words in that sentence above are pretty much "The of at to the of from" - in other words 7 out of 27 words;  26%.