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maximum 'tatum' speed perception

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Subject: maximum 'tatum' speed perception
From: Brian Whitman <bwhitman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:53:24 -0500
Delivery-date: Wed Apr 3 16:05:06 2002
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Has there been any human-testing work on the maximum amount of discrete
musical events a person can identify in a second? At what point should a
machine listener (who obviously could do better) stop perceiving rapidly
played notes or percussives?

At extremely high LFs (20Hz) we'll start perceiving tones, and in
playing-around testing on my computer I could hear quarter note snare
drums up to 800bpm (so, about 13Hz). Is this a function of musical
training, the sounds being played, or mechanics of the ear?

-Brian

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Music, Mind & Machine Group
MIT Media Lab

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