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The weird aspect about our perception of colors is how our brains interpret them relative to nearby colors (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion#
by lhorie 5y ago
The weird aspect about our perception of colors is how our brains interpret them relative to nearby colors (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion#/media/File:Checker_shadow_illusion.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion#/media/File:C...)
- jacquesm 5y agoTrue, but that's optical illusion territory, similar things will happen with music, there are all kinds of acoustical illusions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_illusion As well as the 'missing fundamental' I linked to in another comment in this thread. If you pick some Jazz piece apart it isn't rare at all to come across a chord that sounds absolutely awful. But then you play the piece as intended and it all makes sense within the larger context of the notes/chords/intervals around that chord. This never ceases to surprise me.