Re: Why the music is music and the noise is noise? (John Hershey )

Subject: Re: Why the music is music and the noise is noise?
From:    John Hershey  <jhershey(at)cogsci.ucsd.edu>
Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:52:16 -0700

according to this study music is language, although the converse is not
clear.
so perhaps you can make noise into music by whispering, but you might have
to whisper a tune.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/010426/010426-4.html  (stimulus sound file and MEG
picture here)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Meijer" <peter.b.l.meijer(at)PHILIPS.COM>
To: <AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 2:57 AM
Subject: Re: Why the music is music and the noise is noise?


> Can we build a system which can turn the noise to the music?

There is a related news snippet in yesterday's New Scientist
at http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999653

Best wishes,

Peter Meijer


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