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Re: Video about perfect pitch and how adults can't develop i
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 11:47 am
by MIDI Life Crisis
While you couldn’t hear light (and I don’t think anyone postulated that here/hear) you can certainly extrapolate the frequencies to a rate that corresponds to an audio tone. No?
Re: Video about perfect pitch and how adults can't develop i
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 12:24 pm
by mhschmieder
I wonder if anyone has perfect pitch in water?
We have two employees who specialized in underwater acoustics for their PhD topic, and they lose me pretty quickly when they start talking about their specialty. But it's fascinating nonetheless, and an area that humans are just barely beginning to understand.
The density of water is less consistent than that of air, and is changing constantly. Audio waves are distorted in quite unpredictable ways!
As you might well imagine, the US Military is quite interested in this field, as it has implications for communications and security.
So eventually there will be enough funding that more will be understood.
I am pretty sure that NO ONE has perfect pitch underwater.
Anyway, this also relates to why dividing a light frequency does not produce sound, as sound must be delivered through a medium.
Remember, there is no sound in a vacuum, such as outer space, regardless of what sci-fi movies "teach" you.
Light, however, "passes" happily through a vacuum.
Re: Video about perfect pitch and how adults can't develop i
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 4:28 pm
by MIDI Life Crisis
Perfect pitch in water is called perfect pitcher.
Re: Video about perfect pitch and how adults can't develop i
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 10:25 pm
by mhschmieder
If the perfect pitcher's in the water, then I guess the catcher is in the rye.
Re: Video about perfect pitch and how adults can't develop i
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:36 am
by stubbsonic
Jacob Collier seems to have perfect pitch, and also seems to have an uncanny ability to divide some interval into "n" -tone temperaments. I can't find the interview but he just sings these scales like, here's a scale dividing some interval, let's say a P4, into 10 equally spaced pitches "laa laa laa laa laa laa laa laa laa laa". Now 7, "laa laa..." etc.
He strikes me as a person who took the ability of perfect pitch and has poured his energy into learning and making amazing music. He is an impressive combination of impeccable ear, massive talent, hard work, and master-level skill-- certainly with vocals.
Because he has this facility with non-standard, non-12-tone-equal pitches, I wonder if that allows him to experience non-A440 referenced music in a different, unshackled way.