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Reid
Ha`aha`a
Andorra
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 Posted - 03/08/2005 : 11:05:15 AM
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A very interesting and amusing article in NYT about a person who can taste, and thereby identify, intervals between notes. A kind of synesthesia. One quote that is especially applicable to slack key: "A minor sixth tastes like cream; a major sixth tastes like low-fat cream; a major third tastes sweet." We all know how sweet those 3rds are and how fat those 6ths are :-). Things that we would think sound bad, taste bad, but in different ways.
You can read it at
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/health/08smel.html
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Sarah
`Olu`olu
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Posted - 03/09/2005 : 03:59:49 AM
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Wow, talk about a low calorie diet!  |
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 03/09/2005 : 07:56:49 AM
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It's interesting to see how music affects people. Most people can only say "I like it" or "I don't like it", but there are many ways we sense music. The diversion of that feeling through the sense of taste is certainly strange.
While teaching some basic guitar chords to some people at a bluegrass music workshop last night, another player said that chord changes come when you "feel" them. But he couldn't explain it.
I remember feeling myself get all teary when Bob Brozman would roll off the high notes while playing "Akaka Falls" at last summer. Where does that come from?
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wdf
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 03/09/2005 : 09:36:14 AM
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Jesse, I thing just about everything Bod did last June just blew us away!! Too bad he won't be ther this June.  |
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Reid
Ha`aha`a
Andorra
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Posted - 03/09/2005 : 10:55:38 AM
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Synesthesia is really interesting. Some people could do it with psychotropics - see sounds as color, taste colors, etc. But, nobody has ever figured out how the wiring gets crossed.
What is really interesting about this case, is that, even though distinguishing intervals is hard, as they say, it is clear from this person's experience, that they *can* be distinguished and, in fact, her taste sensations make it easy.
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