Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi David,

> You can sympathize with your grandfather, but comparing the qualities
> and substance of your response seems a bit far-stretched.

Not at all, I think… and very useful.

Oliver Sacks, for one example, measures and reports on [extreme] sensory 
perceptive (dis)abilities -- and books like "Musicophilia" make for a very 
interesting read. it would be *very* informative to have a [very] long-term 
study of "average perceptive functioning". Based on my intuition and experience 
(i.e., anecdotal at best, and fatally biased at worst), I predict such a study 
would prove a general dulling of the human perceptive senses -- hence the 
ever-accelerating need to overstimulate each successive generation.

Cheers,
Kieren.