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In the Thread: Measuring reality: empirical mode decomposition
Post Subject: Musical educationPosted by decoud on: 3/3/2008
Apologies: by knowledge of music I meant familiarity with the experience of music rather than declarative knowledge of musical theory or practice. I meant to contrast it with being familiar only - or mostly - with music already processed by an amplifier and reproduced by a loudspeaker, which is the condition that most people find themselves in (how many people  listen to much more live music than reproduced music?).

One might argue that what the majority hears as their "reality" is therefore the reproduction and not the real thing. To get closer to the actual reality these people need to be guided by something else than their ears: hence the idea of using a measure that might get at what *you* hear, even if - as you say - it can only be an imperfect surrogate.

But perhaps a  better way forward is to just to drag them out of their cave and into the sunlight of live music.

Best, D

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