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RE: Musical Dynamies not equal to DNR

"You are making the facile assumption that the eye/brain/mind hears like measurement apparatus."

Actually, I would say that the Mind hears things quite differently than a measurement apparatus would.

"I suppose that might be true if the measurement apparatus had the computing power of a human brain and was programmed with advanced artificial intelligence software capable of musical and acoustic scene deconstruction."

In other words, if the measurement apparatus had a Mind. I hope you aren't asserting that Minds are infallible in their sensory perceptions. Certainly the ones with which we are familiar are not. Indeed, the Human Mind is so notoriously fallible in that regard that we have an expression for when one perceives something that does not exist: we say "you imagined it."

"This is not how Audacity works."

No indeed. Audacity doesn't have an imagination. Unlike the Human Mind, Audacity cannot imagine things that don't exist and then display them. It can only display what was actually played.

"Perceptions such as musical dynamics are high level constructions done in the mind from subtle clues. Musical dynamics is not some kind of short term RMS average."

I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. Are you claiming that dynamics exist only as an abstraction in our Minds? Are you saying that Audacity will show no difference between a chord struck on a piano as ppp and the same chord struck as fff?

PS: I'm way jealous of those cools italics you use when you quote. How do you get them?

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