Re: [microsound] a personal appreciation of microsound?

[eretsua <benighted_mirror@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: "David @ Audiobulb" <dwnewman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Why do some of us enjoy/appreciate or find interest in repeated exposure to 
> <
> microsound compositions whilst others are repelled by it?<

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.

there are many different reasons. one microsounder might listen to the 
recording and enjoy the technical quallity of the recording. another 
microsounder may be facinated by the sonic magnification of the word around 
him/her. like when you take a camera into the garden and zoom in on all the 
little things and film a whole different world then when you just look at 
the garden from your window, only in microsound it's done with sound rather 
than film.

eretsua



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