RALUCOB@a... wrote: RALUCOB@a... wrote: > > the illusion of continuity? sorry john, i don't think so. my post is > a challenge for a definite answer and frankly, i doubt i'll get one. maybe > there isn't one as yet. but, i have my doubts about the singer's formant > theory. my post was an expression of those doubts.
Mmm. There are certain illusions we can create in music: you can create an illusion that a melody on the piano is moving in a complete legato swell, even though each n note is in fact dying away; if you have to modify a vowel when singing, in order to get the tone-colour you want, you can "tune" to the desired vowel right at the end of the note, and the listener will get the illusion that this is the vowel they have been listening to all along (well, IME anyway); I think fundamentals can be well understood and substituted by the brain - like words left out of sentences which are so easily understood to be there that we don't bother putting 'em in: I think this is the reason why close intervals low down always sound muddy, because notes that close are related in the harmonic series of a fundamental that's too low to hear, or to hear easily, even though that fundamental isn't actually played/sung.
Not saying that this corroborates John's theory, just that it suggests that it isn't complete nonsense. -- Linda
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