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September 27, 2006

Training, Complexity, and Taste in Music

Interesting post on Cognitive Daily about a study which had professional jazz and bluegrass musicians rate some improvisations based on both "complexity" and "liking," and then graphed the results. prorat 1.9 downloading

Posted by todd at September 27, 2006 7:11 PMprorat 1.9 downloading

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I'd like to see how the two sets of musicians would react to me shredding for them.prorat 1.9 downloading

But the complexity axis doesn't go to 11.prorat 1.9 downloading

Posted by: Keith at September 27, 2006 7:40 PMprorat 1.9 downloading

does 22 subjects a study make? prorat 1.9 downloading

Posted by: jurvis at September 27, 2006 8:15 PMprorat 1.9 downloading

Posted by: tony at September 27, 2006 8:23 PMprorat 1.9 downloading

You'd be surprised what it takes to make a psych study. As in, "Not much." prorat 1.9 downloading

Posted by: todd. at September 27, 2006 9:07 PMprorat 1.9 downloading

I should also note that Keith has once again proved that he is awesome. We would leave ten as the top number, and just make it signify something more complex, but then Keith would be yet more complex; his shredding is forever beyond our measure. prorat 1.9 downloading

Posted by: todd. at September 28, 2006 10:39 PMprorat 1.9 downloading

I wonder if I should try to formulate a joke around the idea that Keith's shredding violates the triangle inequality on the complexity metric. Probably not?prorat 1.9 downloading

Posted by: todd. at September 28, 2006 10:40 PMprorat 1.9 downloading

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