He heard influence of composers such as Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky and Vaughan Williams.
Now, in eLife, Richard Mooney and colleagues at Duke University including Kosuke Hamaguchi and Katherine Tschida as joint first authors address the important question of how the sounds that birds hear influence the sounds that birds make (Hamaguchi et al., 2014).
You can hear influences from The Clash to the Stones to The Strokes, but ultimately it has its own style.
Yet what we hear in music -- what we think we hear, influenced by the composer's title or some other piece of information we accept as a clue to his intentions -- gradually assumes its own reality.
Let's Start to Dance Again, Hamilton Bohannon (1981) It's just a big, chocka, dense, full-on, four-on-the-floor disco record, without too much singing, and this scratchy guitar that you can hear influenced me and Nile Rodgers too.
Welsh heard influences of 60s English psychedelia (Pink Floyd, Soft Machine), 70s Krautrock (Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk), 80s synth (Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis), and Erik Satie.
You can hear influences from all over the electronic spectrum; bass music, garage, juke, electro, chiptune, bassline house, rave and '90's breakbeat.
The music she would hear influenced her tastes, as she commented: "all the dancehall records I saved up to buy – Shabba Ranks, Buju Banton – I heard them at Notting Hill".
Oxford, Mississippi's Bass Drum Of Death got the lo-fi treatment at first, but when you listen to their layered recordings you'll hear influences from punk, garage, and rock 'n' roll, combined in a sonic Long Island Iced Tea.
Several authors found that familiarity with the sound heard influenced the hemispheric specialisation in some species (zebra finche (Taeniopygia guttata): [22]; starling (S. vulgaris): [19], [20]; bonobo (Pan paniscus): [23]; horse (Equus caballus): [24]), but not in others (California sea lion (Z. californianus): [17]; vervet monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops): [25]).
Condition and the number of previous playbacks heard influenced overall model fit the least, while pup presence appears to be the most influential fixed effect (Table 3).
