- It can happen that the sensory input you experience over a short interval of time makes no sense to your brain until some last thing happens which reveals the theme and gives context to everything that came before. At that moment your brain goes back and reprocesses everything that just happened in order to make sense of it. The feeling is like experiencing a whole chunk of time condensed into one moment together with the satisfying feeling of resolution that comes from making order out of chaos. Musicians use this trick to great effect.
- It’s less of an insult to say someone is “disingenuous” than to say she is a liar. But we all know that the meaning is exactly the same. Disingenuous is a more obscure word and there is less common knowledge of its meaning. Given two words that are synonymous is it generally true that the one with the more nuanced connotation is also the one that is longer, rarer, more obscure?
- In almost all Western music every note begins and ends K/2^n units of time after the last note for some integers K and n. Isn’t that rather limiting?
- A nurse at my kids’ pediatrician tells them she will count to three before giving them a shot but she actually gives the shot at the count of 2, surprising them. It seems to make it less painful. How does that work?
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April 25, 2012 at 5:43 am
garima
Anticipation is believed to heighten sensual experiences. Thus, geater the anticipation, more the pain. She cuts down on a second of anticipation and thus on the associated pain. Makes sense?
April 25, 2012 at 10:00 am
Tony
On #3, when there is a need to get around the limitation of the 2^n denominator, musicians can use triplets . The fact that I am not a musician and I have seen these suggests to me that these are *fairly* common — though still not the norm.
June 10, 2013 at 1:52 pm
Mihail
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June 10, 2013 at 10:59 pm
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April 25, 2012 at 5:11 pm
dan s
i think you are being somewhat disingenuous in 2 but not lying
April 25, 2012 at 8:43 pm
jeff
After all, it is a thought left around being disingenuous.
April 28, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Anonymous
#4 warrants a “consider the equilibrium.” As soon as you take a seat in the waiting room…boom.
April 30, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Jim S
#3 isn’t true. If a unit of time is a measure, realize that measures are broken up into all kinds of time signatures. 4/4 is obviously a common (cough!) one, but what about 3/4 (Waltz, relating to the triplets comment above), 6/8, etc.? (See the wiki on Time Signatures for more.)
In rock, note Rush, who loves getting crazy with time signatures. See also: Led Zep.
Finally, I defy anyone to show me a recording of (good) blues or jazz in which the notes actually start/end anywhere near where they are “supposed to” according to the way the notes are written on the page. Arguably, their not starting at the right time is what makes it good music!