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Reminds me of "Human Time" 94-96BPM https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/269783-speedy-beet https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/art
by seph-reed 6y ago
Reminds me of "Human Time" 94-96BPM
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/269783-speedy-beet https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/26978...
> JAD: Because if we're unconsciously speeding up slow beats and slowing down fast beats, well, there's got to be ...
MATTHEW GUERRIERI: Some particular point ...
JAD: ... right in the middle ...
MATTHEW GUERRIERI: ... where our judgment of time actually syncs up with actual time.
JAD: Where in other words, we guess the tempo correctly.
MATTHEW GUERRIERI: Yeah, and it's called the indifference point.
JAD: I don't know why it's called that, but according to most research that point falls somewhere around this tempo.
MATTHEW GUERRIERI: 94, 96 beats per minute.
JAD: If you give people four beats of this tempo and then ask them to guess the fifth, they usually get it right.
MATTHEW GUERRIERI: Yep.
JAD: That's human time.
- sideshowb 6y agoI think people also tend to misjudge tempo depending on the content of the music (also discussed in my link above)
- kortex 6y agoI thoroughly enjoyed that, in particular I was delighted by the push-the-tempo Beethoven renditions. Really shreds. I can definitely get behind the theory that Beethoven wanted that feeling of making the audience, and performers, uncomfortable.