Tone Perception Visualized Books I and II are as much about the interaction of visual and auditory signals as they are studies of the works under investigation. They are the fruit of a musician's lifelong fascination with the inner implications of tone and tone relatedness. The visualizations seek to elicit fresh awareness of the reader's own in-depth perception of specific acoustical events as they occur in specific works, rather than seek to generalize about those events using a theoretical or structural vocabulary.Tonal Refraction is more about the psychology of tone perception than about the works per se. The works exist only as perceived, refracted through the layers of association and memory that give them meaning, one tone at a time. As noted in Volume I, time is a central element in the Tonal Refraction process, represented on three levels: the present moment of perception in the measured sequence of squares of the grid; the nanoseconds of vibrational speed greatly magnified by pencil strokes moving in response to those vibrations as if one by one; and the lifetime of association that produces the contrasting palettes explored in this publication.
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