"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht 
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> It is a compelling image in it's own right.
>
> The idea of course has lots of pedigree
> Leonardo, famously, but I expect you knew that:
> http://www.mirabilissimeinvenzioni.com/ing_treatiseonpainting_ing.html
>
> I am also reminded of, I think it was Darren New, posting once about 
> research into how music stimulates common brain regions in diverse human 
> groups.
>
> I had a group of brain researchers in my taxi one night and I mentioned 
> that research/book to them.  I mentioned to one how it called up the 
> question for me of how someone even recognizes that something is music. 
> Surely it was cultural and context-driven.  His reponse was [to the best I 
> can recall] that certain research indicated that humans would reacted to 
> repeated fragments of sounds in the same way as to music.  But I didn't 
> get much detail, the conversation took that turn just as he was getting 
> out of the car.
>
Absolutely true. Several years ago, I was supervising a drilling site in the 
Portuguese dunes. The sound of the drill rig was very rythmic and 
repetitive, and soon enough it transformed in my head into a melodious kind 
of symphony by a whole orchestra. If I had been a composer, I would have 
noted down the melody and orchestration and would now be known as the author 
of "The Drill Rig Symphony in b flat"  :-)

Thomas

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