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"Arny Krueger" wrote:

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Relying on sighted evaluations of subtle differences is certain
intellectual death.


We are talking about a non-intellectual activity.

Wrong Art. You are talking about a non-intellectual activity because that's
all you're capable of. One symptom of this is the demonstrated fact that you
don't distinguish between listening to music for pleasure and configuring
and adjusting an audio system. You can't tell the difference because you're
just so freakin' dense.

Actually, the perception of the sound of music is an interesting
combination of brain function and anatomy. It involves the left and
right hemispheres in a unique way. Different aspects of musical
perception involve different parts of the brain; timbre, for example is
mainly a right-brain aspect. Music perception (as opposed to music
performance or music analysis per se) is both an intellectual and
emotional exercise. The best journal on the topic that I know of is
"Music Perception" published by UC Press. Also highly interesting is
the work done at Michigan State University in the combined areas of
physics and psychoacoustics.