RE: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

[James Lowe]

Hello

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)Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:
)> Oliver Sacks, for one example, measures and reports on [extreme]
)> sensory perceptive (dis)abilities -- and books like "Musicophilia"
)> make for a very interesting read. it would be *very* informative to
)> have a [very] long-term study of "average perceptive functioning".
)> Based on my intuition and experience (i.e., anecdotal at best, and
)> fatally biased at worst), I predict such a study would prove a general
)> dulling of the human perceptive senses -- hence the ever-accelerating
)> need to overstimulate each successive generation.
)
)I can't claim that popular music appears to me as exhibiting much of a
)trend to overstimulate harmonic receptors.  Even in the rare case of four-
)part harmony (Beach Boys et al), they are mostly confined to basically
)homophonic chord progressions rather than complex polyphony.
)
)The trend seems more in the direction of understimulation to me.  Not
)necessarily the worst thing considering the trend to have background
)music playing everywhere.  Bach distracts from food and driving.
)

That's funny because most 'classical' music period (esp. Mozart) drives me to 
distraction!

James