Re: [microsound] a personal appreciation of microsound?

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> i think that personal preferences are atleast partially dictated by 
> physical properties of the individual in question. i don't know if 
> it's true but i believe everyone has a different frequency range 
> that they are able to hear better than another person. so PersonA's 
> hearing is more sensitve, better able to hear high sounds and 
> PersonB's hearing is more sensitive to low sounds. i think these 
> differences make up (atleast partially) our tastes because we are 
> not hearing the same thing and there for may may miss out on the 
> point of the music. i think that one needs to be able to recognize a 
> pattern (of some sort) in order to enjoy / appreciate anything. so 
> if the point of the music/sound is in an area of the frequency 
> spectrum where the listener's ears & brain can't make anything of 
> it's going to be lost on them.

it's also the social filtering that people apply to their physical 
input systems -- "you only hear what you want to hear" -- where it is 
seems reasonable to say that measured at the eardrum, with small 
variations for different people, everyone is receiving the same sonic 
energy, and this would likely hold for the energy passing through the 
nerves from the ear to the brain...  But the brain has been taught to 
'accept or reject' certain information impulses as being important or 
un-important to the individuals survival in the social system in 
which they reside -- this occurs as one matures in a system -- from 
childhood.  Children tend not to discriminate one kind of input  vs 
another (except as a visceral protection level).  As one assimilates 
into the social system, active filtration begins to operate as 
dictated by that system.  You could even think of this list being a 
collective of people who find themselves with roughly similar 
filtration systems that don't quite fit the 'norm' of the social 
system that they are embedded in...

My filter criteria -- I like a particular sonic energy if it's good 
;-)) -- if it energizes my system...

Cheers
John

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