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By funkyhammond · Posted
I guess it might be preferable to name it "pitch interval memory" to clarify that you are talking about sound and not the perception/memory of time intervals, for example. So "pitch memory" and "pitch interval memory". And then I guess "latent pitch memory" to describe the ability that most everyone has of singing Happy Birthday. I guess that's all fine and good unless... the phrase "pitch memory" is already being used and has a slightly different usage. That would just confuse matters for those already using that phrase. I'm definitely not an expert, but I see some scholarly papers that seem to indicate that they are using the term "pitch memory" in a more general sense to talk about memory tasks when studying anyone, musician, non-musicians, people with or without "absolute pitch", people with or without "relative pitch", etc. So, if "pitch memory" is already being used in a much more broad sense to indicate any kind of pitch recollection, then using it to specifically replace "perfect pitch" or "absolute pitch" would serve little purpose other than to create confusion for scientists. And if that's your goal, then job well done! -
Did not read all four pages prior, but I'll say this: Friend of mine... waaaay younger than me. genius musician, award winning guitar player/producer. Has perfect pitch. On the spectrum.... He couldn't stand to be in his parents' kitchen, because their fridge hummed in between F & F# and it drove him nuts.... -
By ElmerJFudd · Posted
“One of the most puzzling aspects of the brain's faculty for music is perfect or absolute pitch, the ability to identify a note without any reference point. Only a few musicians have the skill. Most rely on relative pitch. Ordinary listeners can identify six to eight categories of pitch within an octave, but people with absolute pitch can assign notes to much finer subdivisions, approaching 70 or more, Dr. Robert J. Zatorre of the Montreal Neurological Institute wrote in a recent issue of Nature Neuroscience. The mysterious ability can be helped with training but is so easily learned, by those so gifted, that just the exposure to notes and their names is sometimes enough. After a young age, about 9 to 12, however, absolute pitch apparently cannot be acquired, and no amount of training will bring it about. Two aspects point to a genetic component, Dr. Zatorre said. One is the 8 to 15 percent chance that if one sibling has absolute pitch, the other will have it too. Another is that Asians have a much greater incidence of absolute pitch than other ethnic groups. That includes Asians who are culturally distinct and who speak tonal languages like Chinese and nontonal languages like Korean and Japanese. Absolute pitch is also more common among Asian-Americans, who often speak only English. The brain's auditory cortex is arranged in maps of neurons that respond to a particular frequency, with high-frequency neurons at one end and low-frequency at the other. ''It should be relatively trivial to read out the absolute pitch of a stimulus,'' Josh McDermott of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said. Assessing relative pitch involves comparison and a complicated neural computation. ''So it's a mystery why absolute pitch is such a rare phenomenon.'' One possible explanation, he said, is that everyone is born with absolute pitch, but most people lose it in favor of relative pitch. Dr. Zatorre also sees absolute pitch as a possible slight derangement of normal brain processes, rather than an enhanced natural ability. In some forms of autism, he said, people see trees and not the forest. Possibly, absolute pitch is a mild form of the same disorder in the auditory domain. Some musicians with absolute pitch find it hard to transpose melodies, he said, and they cannot shut off their absolute pitch even when they would like to.” https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/16/science/perfect-pitch-a-gift-of-note-for-just-a-few.html?smid=url-share -
By Floyd Tatum · Posted
That's interesting. Not sure what it means or implies, but it's interesting nonetheless. -
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By jazzpiano88 · Posted
Echoing the thanks for this review!! Thoroughly enjoyed the videos on the early development. I can only imagine the dedication needed to develop this and demonstrate it with that PC Keyboard!! -
Hi, Steven- This new architecture was introduced in the Nord Wave 2 minus the Piano and Organ sections- -dj -
By Dr Nursers · Posted
Mark thanks so much for this in-depth review. I don't have much of value to add beyond I'm fascinated by the Misha, and it's now on the list to buy if / when I make the eurorack plunge. I've been tempted on Eurorack for 3 or 4 years now but don't really have the room to kick much off. But the interest has not faded. Because of the lack of USB MIDI, it doesn't work in my setup as a desktop unit sadly.
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