source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:29:28 -0700 Subject: Reply to Enrique Moreno From: PAULE >PS Square waves, or any other particular overtone structure, again, were >uncorrelated to resuts. Why? Simply remember that the cognitive domain, >where the "similarity" operation is accomplished (for both octaves and >"morenoctaves" --which are not just simply powers of 3 but psychological >categories), must not be confused with the psychoacoustical domain --where >squre waves live. This confusion of domains, to which unfortunately most >researchers with a physical bacground are prone (including one of my thesis >advisers, John Pierce) is the downfall of anyone trying to understand a >*musical* phenomenon. I think I agree very much with you here. We don't hear square waves in terms of their individual components, we just hear the fundamental of each (incomplete) harmonic series and associate a (hollow, buzzy) timbre with them. Now did you find that other relationships, such as powers of 2.718, could not evoke cognitive similarity? Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:26 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05241; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:27:33 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA05239 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA07733; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:27:29 -0700 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:27:29 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu