[NewMusic] underwhelmed @ Mills

weasel walter weaselw at juno.com
Tue Nov 6 14:43:16 PST 2007


> well if you (as audience or peformer) care about hearing everything 
> that is going on,  there is a set limit to what the  brain can handle -

> it's something like only 5-7 separate audio sources.  and then there's 
> volume/frequency masking effects on top of that -

understood, but surely you'll agree that sometimes enjoyment of abstract
music has to do with resulting masses, not necessarily hearing every
element as a distinctive, separate entity.

ww


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