The Cocktail Party Effect
Common Results: strange phone numbers in your book, splitting headache, spilt red-wine, and periodic memory loss.
just kidding, this post is actually "Quote of the Day," but i thought it was such i funny title (so indicative of the period from whence it was named- cmon, who goes to "cocktail parties" anymore?) that i had to pun on it. sorry about that.
"Perceptually there appears to be little or no basis for polymeter as research shows that listeners either extract a composite pattern that is fit to a metric framework or focus on one rhythmic stream while treating others as "noise". This upholds the tenet that "the figure-ground dichotomy is fundamental to all perception" (Boring 1942, p.253). (London 2004, p.49-50)"
basically, this means that, if the music gets too complex, we lose perception of it, and instead hear just noise.
-from the wikipedia deffinition of "Metre (music)", one of two deffinitions that i accidently discovered reference Meshuggah as key examples - Polyrythm and Polymetre.
just kidding, this post is actually "Quote of the Day," but i thought it was such i funny title (so indicative of the period from whence it was named- cmon, who goes to "cocktail parties" anymore?) that i had to pun on it. sorry about that.
"Perceptually there appears to be little or no basis for polymeter as research shows that listeners either extract a composite pattern that is fit to a metric framework or focus on one rhythmic stream while treating others as "noise". This upholds the tenet that "the figure-ground dichotomy is fundamental to all perception" (Boring 1942, p.253). (London 2004, p.49-50)"
basically, this means that, if the music gets too complex, we lose perception of it, and instead hear just noise.
-from the wikipedia deffinition of "Metre (music)", one of two deffinitions that i accidently discovered reference Meshuggah as key examples - Polyrythm and Polymetre.
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