drmatt wrote: > Hi, > > Yes exactly it has nothing to do with recorded sound per se, and that is > because there is a distinction between remembering the *sound*, and > remembering the *music*. It's a different part of the brain and a > different learned skill. > > So a conductor's brain remembers the ebb and flow of the music (consider > it the "delivered meaning" of the piece), which though it could be > exceptionally complex, is actually only a mental representation of the > sound they heard and the actions of the players. This it's possible to > know, and remember, from one day to the next, just like any person who > can read can remember the meaning and story from a 100,000 word novel > without having to remember all the words. > > Musicians (I know some but wouldn't claim to be one) have muscle memory > (actually subconscious mental programming) that does the hard stuff of > translating the feel of the music and that remembered melody and energy > into the movement of fingers/lungs/lips/limbs whatever to play the > instrument. The musician rarely has to think consciously about where to > place fingers/limbs etc in response to the tune. This is that final step > from conscious competence to unconscious competence. The point I think > to take from this is that the musician / conductor only really > consciously remembers a very simplified meta view of the piece, and the > subconscious fills in the rest... So you are entirely correct they are > not reliant on auditory memory for anything other than very short term > reanalysis. > > Matt. > > Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk
Hi Doc, Thanks for indulging me. It's making more sense (I think)... Dave :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106914 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
