Re: [tuning] A funny thing happened [20t-ET perception]

Joseph Pehrson wrote,

> Actually, there is something quite valuable learned, at least to me,
in this experiment... it is the power of PSYCHOLOGY and expecting to
hear a certain thing!

Indeed! It can be both frightfully sobering and kind of funny...

> Wouldn't it be interesting to try different experiments of this
nature... and how different expectations influenced the end result???

Oh I'm sure that this sort of thing has been done extensively in a
variety of psychological studies and whatnot. I remember once reading
that the Russian film director Vsevolod Pudovkin conducted some
experiments were he filmed an expressionless close-up of an actor and
then spliced the same shot so that it would follow footage of a plate
of soup, a young girl lying dead in her coffin, and of a child at
play. He then showed the finished print to an audience who had to tell
what they had seen. They all noticed how the actor gazed hungrily at
the soup, sadly at the death scene, and happily at the child... yet
they had all seen the same impassive face each time.

> This process, of course, happens frequently in composition, as
everybody knows. One thinks one has something, and then coming back
to it again in another day or night, one finds out it is entirely
something else... or at least it is PERCEIVED as something else

Yes, I frequently have this sort of "problem." But it's not so much a
case of one thing sounding like a different thing after coming back to
it cold, but more that somethings that I think I've finally got my ear
wrapped around at the end of one day ends up sounding like complete
and utter bedlam the next day! However this is almost always just a
temporary trauma that a good fifteen minutes of getting back in the
flow of things usually conquers.

Dan