[BC] Could our concept of audio be all wrong?

[Tom]

Especially Mr. Lord's response...

in part:

> Still, among most people, those innate differences are not huge. What 
> a lot of people are missing is education. Listening takes training and 
> practice.
>
> A good music appreciation class, for example: one that includes some 
> music theory and samples the cannon of widely regarded works across a 
> long time-line. A lot of the most popular music is very flashy in just 
> a few dimensions (usually beat and tambre) but vapid in large-scale 
> structure, for example. I'm certain this is because it just never 
> occurred to most of its audience to listen for larger, richer 
> structures and so they can't hear them even when they're there.
>

Dana Puopolo wrote:
> Interesting reading:
>
> http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music.html

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Tom Spencer
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