RE: [tuning] Digest Number 3482

Robert,

You wrote, a few days ago:

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:21:57 +0100
From: "Robert Walker" <robertwalker@...>
Subject: Re: Improvisation on pitches from a recording of a song
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> effective. ... So I think it's likely that birds CAN
hear almost anything we can extract from their
song with modern tools, at least down to a limit that
is, say, proportionate to their "rate of living". Maybe
a bird that lives seven years instead of seventy would
discriminate events ten times shorter? There's an
approximate "law" that each bird and animal has a
lifetime of about the same number of heartbeats.

It's at about tenth speed in fact that the
sounds break up into syllables and sound
like animal and human voice sounds.
Maybe that's suggestive?
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[YA]
It just occurred to me to ask: At what speed does human
speech begin to resemble birdsong?

(I presume you have some method of altering speed while
defeating pitch shifting ...) If at ten times normal speed,
the speech of the baseball coach hectoring his team (or
some other suitably territorial or mating display, eg a rap
song?) starts to sound markedly like a bird declaring its
territorial boundaries ... maybe we're onto something!

My wife had a pair of canaries; the female died, and ever
since, the male has begun to sing - exquisitely! - and with
great variety, presumably in hopes of attracting a new
mate.

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