prime affect: reply to Lumma

[Lumma:]
> I'm pretty impressed by the ability
> of language to communicate these
> things. That is, if forced to answer
> the "do other people see red" question,
> I'd say yes. I think this stuff sounds
> the same, more or less, to most of us.

Me too. I wasn't criticizing your descriptions,
just noting how subjective they ultimately are.
I agree that most people get pretty much the
same sensations from prime-affect, but it
*is* hard to pin down in words. Again, that's
why we use the music to express these things,
instead of using language.

It's one of my main contentions (in my book)
that the feelings people get from music are
largely due to the composer's/performer's
manipulation of these prime-affects.

- Monzo
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