1. You always know what you hear Unless you are tone-deaf, you can tell when a note is played higher or lower than other. Or can you… Like there are optical illusions, there are also auditory illusions (and I do exploit them as a composer). One of the most important concepts in music theory is the harmonic series. Essentially, whenever you speak or make a sound, there is the fundamental pitch that you hear as well as many pitches above that pitch resonating that the same time. These other pitches give sounds their unique qualities and timbres. There is a phenomenon called the missing fundamental. If you were to take all these upper pitches from a note and remove the fundamental, you would still hear the fundamental. This can make notes sound like they are rising even if they are falling. Or can make you hear notes that aren’t even playing. Or chords that aren’t present. One great resource to learn more is auditoryneuroscience.com. There, you can test yourself amongst actual samples and see if…
The Present Author will repeat a maxim he's uttered for decades now, which is still on track to prove out: "Bio-Technology will impact the 21st century to the same degree that computer technology impacted the 20th." Don't look now, but it's well on its way already! And let's be perfectly clear up front: I want it to happen. I think we're on the cusp of an exciting leap in science, a pathway to augment the building blocks of our biology, and I think we should embrace it. I want clones, GMOs, bio-hacking, genetically engineered super-beings, replicants, Jurassic Park, gene-editing, and genetic human enhancement. No, I'm not afraid of the consequences - we will have something squirmy get loose for a while at some point, no doubt, but I'm willing to take that risk ten times over rather than turn our backs on the progress we've made up until now. Let's back up a bit because the backlash against biotech has fired up before biotech has even gotten started… Here We Go With The Monkeys Again… …
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