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The critic Alexander Walker called "2001" "the first mainstream film that required an act of continuous inference" from its audiences.
So if you're not using the tools available to you -- volume, melody, and others we'll talk about later on -- your audience will draw all sorts of inferences and start predicting your sound.
John Gay was doing it in The Beggar's Opera (1728) when he lampooned popular tunes of the day for a dribbling mass of unwashed peasants (to make no inference about our own lovely audiences...) We're not looking to reinvent the wheel here.
The audience was left to make its own inferences when she sang something by Ray Charles, "Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)." She performed that song and a few others, including the Bill Withers classic "Ain't No Sunshine," at center stage, sparsely supported by bass and drums.
More and more, though, I think that sort of stuff actually reflects a diminished interest on the part of the audience in anything other than show business and, by inference, celebrity.
Finally, rhetoric proceeds from such opinions to conclusions which the audience will understand to follow by cogent patterns of inference (Rhet. 1354a12 18, 1355a5 21).
Negative inference".
Perception is inference.
"The inference from Davie is that they are considering moving some 6 Music shows, possibly to Radio 2, to give them "a bigger audience".
The inference is clear.
An incoherent inference.
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