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Music to your ears

Published: 21 January 2013

(Abstract of article by 91˿Ƶ grad Adam Gopnik) …Perhaps the densest concentration of sound scholars in the world can be found in Montreal, at 91˿Ƶ, where the writer went to school. Albert Bregman, a former professor of the writer’s, spent almost fifty years at 91˿Ƶ studying the psychology of sound, and his masterwork, “Auditory Sense Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound,” remains a basic text in the field. Discusses Bregman’s suggestion that music is essentially a form of what he dubbed “chimerical perception.” (Also mentions Robert Zatorre, Daniel Levitin and Jonathan Sterne.)

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