Fear of a disco planet
Have you ever heard a song on the radio that you recognize but you can’t pinpoint the name of the song? (…) It is common for people to recognize a song but how much or how little of the song do you need to hear to recognize it? Do you think you could recognize a song if you just heard a fragment of the song, the rhythm or if you just heard the notes played for you without any rhythmic information?
Kostic and Clearly conducted four different experiments to understand what parts of a song are essential for you to remember hearing it. (…)
The findings from this study reveal that there really is not just one aspect of a song that makes you recognize it as familiar. You can hear a distorted fragment of a song and recognize it. You can hear just the notes of the song played in order and recall that you heard the song before. You can hear the rhythm of the song and still remember it. Finally, you could hear the notes of a song played at a different speed and still recognize it. This speaks to the variety of things we attend to when we are listening to a song.
sculpture { Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Cloud Prototype No.1, 2003 | fiberglass and titanium alloy foil }
