In addition to reviews, features and news during the week, our critics and reporters collect the best of what they've heard: notes that sent shivers down their spines, memorable voices, quotations that cut to the heart of the story.
In addition to writing reviews, features and news during the week, our critics and reporters collect the best of what they've heard: notes that sent shivers down their spines, memorable voices, quotations that cut to the heart of the story.
(To put it simply, if you play a C on the piano, the vibrating piano string also produces a series of higher, more faintly heard notes: octaves, fifths and major thirds, and eventually all the notes of the chromatic scale).
When it canceled his column in a cost-cutting move, Mr. Rich began a blog, "So I've Heard," after the title of a 2006 compilation of his reviews, "So I've Heard: Notes of a Migratory Music Critic," and contributed reviews to Bloomberg News.
The problem stems from the tension between the sameness in the object of experience (e.g. the same tune through its progression) and the temporal fluidity of experience itself (e.g. the transitions between heard notes).
In an exemplar ERP study, Janata (2001) asked participants to mentally complete melodic ascending and descending fragments in the appropriate tempo, and found that, after the sequence was interrupted, the imagined note elicited an auditory N1-like component that resembled the N1 to heard notes.
