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

[David Kastrup]

Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Freitag, 25. März 2011, um 19:03:20 schrieb David Kastrup:
>> Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:
>> > Twenty (never mind fifty) years ago, we [apparently] didn't need:
>> >     subwoofers at +10dB, and over-emphasized bass+drum hits, in order
>> > to "feel the music"; a visual cut every 4-5 seconds in a movie in order 
>> > to stay focussed on the film;
>> >     high levels of compression and limiting in order to feel like an
>> > audio recording was "full";
>> >     etc. etc. etc.
>> 
>> Well, doesn't that speak towards understimulation to you?
>> 
>> If you need to turn up the light, it is more a sign of too little than
>> too much to see.
>
> Or it simply means that you have stared into the sun / spotlight a bit
> too long, so now everything appears dark to you, no matter how bright
> it actually is...

Again: staring into the sun is not overstimulation since it is not
overloading the sensors with content but rather blocking them.  Looking
into the sun can't be characterized as "I am seeing too much".

-- 
David Kastrup