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I've called this, when walking around and finding a good mix of disparate sound sources, an "Ives point" or "Ives moment". One of the best of these was when I lived in Brookdale on a hill on one side of a valley in the Santa Cruz mountains. I walked out my front door and heard one of the most fantastic singing drones. After regaining the ability to walk I walked down the hill towards what we euphemistically called "town". I was about a half of a mile down the road before I saw the source of the angelic drone: several men on the roof of the Brookdale Lodge using circular power saws. It was revelatory. More on the Brookdale Lodge, which is rumored to be haunted: <http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/tourism/brookdal.shtml> Chris At 2:00 PM -0800 11/19/01, Allan Hoeltje wrote: >All this Eno/Fripp talk has got my loopie juices flowing. > >Every once and a while I will be in a noisy public place and I will >experience a phenomenon for which there must be a name. All the sounds in >the place are competing for my attention/interpretation and the result is >a >perceived piece of music which is greater than the sum of its parts. > >The best place I've found for this is the Metro where there will be two or >three distant boomboxes, rhythmic train sounds, unintelligible >announcements >on the PA, and lots of other background noise fading in and out of the >mix. >Its as if my brain is desperate to hear a coherent melody and harmony and >so >creates it. > >Has anyone here experienced this? Is there a name for it? W. A. Mathieu >("The Listening Book") talks about listening to background sounds as if >they >were music but I don't remember him giving it a name or describing that >which is heard as a synthesis created from the background. > >-Allan -- http://www.xfade.com/ | In theory, there is no difference between cbm@well.com | theory and practice. In practice, there is.