{"id":9493,"date":"2013-08-21T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9493"},"modified":"2013-08-20T23:36:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T03:36:23","slug":"seeing-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/seeing-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/082113_0301_SeeingMusic1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Reuell reported on a study that found that we watch music more than we listen to it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a study participants were better able to identify the winners of a music competition by watching their performance with the audio on mute. Those who only listened to the audio \u2013 without any video \u2013 were not as successful in identifying winners.<\/li>\n<li>The effect held true even with top level performers being evaluated by judges who were highly trained musicians.<\/li>\n<li>This indicates that humans are innately more focused on visual rather than audio cues.<\/li>\n<li>The effect might also be because among top performers the difference in music quality is indistinguishable and thus judges focus on differentiating visual factors such as the performer&#8217;s passion and energy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why orchestras have turned to blind auditions, why this might not be a solution, and more about the study over <a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2013\/08\/the-look-of-music\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2013\/08\/the-look-of-music\/\">Harvard Gazette<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Reuell reported on a study that found that we watch music more than we listen to it: In a study participants were better able to identify the winners of a music competition by watching their performance with the audio on mute. Those who only listened to the audio \u2013 without any video \u2013 were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/082113_0301_SeeingMusic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions\/9500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}