[lbo-talk] Chuck's Cassirer posts

[Miles Jackson]

Chris Doss wrote:
> Ha. There is a vowel in Russian I STILL have problems distinguishing from its closest "relatives," and I sure as hell can't pronounce it properly.
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> What I think is most mysterious about this music thing is not the universality or lack thereof of this or that scale, but that mathematical relationships between sound waves should have emotional effects, sometimes extremely powerful ones, at all. That is pretty damn weird, and I am skeptical that deriving it from speech is going to work. (Don't animals respond emotionally to music, or is that just a bullshit fake memory of something I think I read once?)
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I don't get what's so weird.  For instance, there are specific 
mathematical relationships between different wavelengths and intensities 
of light, and movies (made of light) can provoke strong emotional reactions.

Miles