Pm Week 6

Question 0

Information theory, comes from transmission, receiving a message.
What degree is it unambiguous.

Answer 0

More of each 
Structural cultural
Redundancy (is the opposite of below): 
Info message
 Uncertainty
Unlikelines
Originality

Complexity
Expectation, equal vs unequal likelyhood. Haydn, surprise, joke quartet. Brahms viollin concerto. Sibelius symphony.
Violations expectation, indications of originality, more info put in.

Question 1

Hemispheric dominance

Right left, creative anaLytics.

Answer 1

Recall melodies,

Di horiz listening!
Two melodies going to the two ears, presented with four melodies, pck to ones you recall. Better right or left ear.
Depends if musican or non musician,
Tonal sequences show left hemisphere dom for musician, right hemisphere non mus. Very familiar melodies musicIns use right hemisphere..

So above applies to unfamiliar.
Probably due to training, cannot be sure.

Takistascope, sensory advantage 20ms dots, no advantages for non musicians, 200ms musicians much better at recalling dots.,matter of organization, easier for them, have vocab.

Question 2

Complexity and preference, can create. Number to represent a piece.

Answer 2

Subjective complexity, related to liking preference of a tune.
Inverted u

All straight from the article reading for class.

Can’t refute this theory.
It’s biggest fault.

Craftsmanship go beyond complexity? To consider. 
I guess so, think of paying for brands. 
Black square painting. 
Does not hold for minimalism. 
Jumble order of equally complex music, this downt hold
Goldberg variation, no dif for reorder. 
Hopscotch book, 
Tend to go back to some pieces
Emotional components,

Question 3

Categorical perception arose out of language perception work.

Answer 3

Ba da ag, formants human voice,

Taking something on a continuum and categorize it to something specific. Music intervals.

Question 4

Why do ba da ag ex. Formant attack gradually changes.

Answer 4

Apply to music, size of intervals.
P4 a4 p5
With adaptions study. Magnitude estimation. 40c +-
Largely unaware of pitch deviations. Categorize pitchs. 80c window.
Problem is this is in isolation.

Musical context study, melody
Musicians could make distinction, categorized to a lesser degree.

Labeling task, asking size, label in tune, no connection,
Ppl do categorize musicians are better, not absolute can distinguish