Sinatra Artist-in-Residence Event
The event that I listened to was called "The Perception of Sound: Is it Noise or Music," and it was led by Francesco Turrisi and a Professor Bell, who is a professor of psychology. Francesco Turrisi is a musician, so he had a lot of insights into noises and music.
From the webcast, Francesco Turrisi thought that sound becomes music when the sound is organized in a way that can make it rhythmic, but he also thinks this can be a subjective question. One thing that I found interesting was how Turrisi said that musicians can develop their ears in a way that allows them to differentiate between various noises or musical sounds. For Turrisi personally, he claims that he keeps sounds that he likes in his brain as a way of remembering them.
Another thing that really fascinated me was how Turrisi mentioned that the way that musicians listen to music might be different from how other people listen to music. Since musicians might know how to play a certain instrument in a musical sound or song, they hear the music and can analyze it in a way that allows them to imagine how the sound is being produced. They can think of how the hands are laid out on an instrument to create a certain sound that they are hearing. This was really interesting to me because I do not play any instruments, and being able to analyze a sound and how it is being played is a skill that I unfortunately do not possess.
I think that the musical skills that Turrisi and other musicians have will inspire me to become more musically inclined.
Hi Kiana, I too attended the event led by Francesco Turrisi and professor Bell. I found the topics discussed about to be intriguing and support the claim that musicians hear music different from others. Going through my experience as a musician it's kind of like speaking a language, everyone can hear the noise but only those well versed in it can truly understand what the noise means.
ReplyDeleteI find it so cool that musicians get a sixth sense from playing music that a lot of people do not have. This is probably an extremely typical honors student thing to say but I played piano for 12 years and I learned to associate notes and chords so that I could play back whatever I heard. Unfortunately I do not know if I can still do that because like any other language, the language. of music must be kept up with practicing
ReplyDeleteWas this the visit in which he talked about people with perfect pitch always associating certain musical notes with colors? That was really interesting, especially to me as a person who basically doesn't play any musical instruments at all (but I very much appreciate listening to music of all kinds!).
ReplyDeleteAlthough I didn't attend this event, I found your explanation of how musicians imagine how the musical sounds are being produced very interesting. As I play the Tabla (an Indian Drum), I totally agree that musicians have their own unique ways of analyzing musical sounds in comparison to other 'regular' sounds.
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