Different threads in music

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.