Musical Language

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 September 2007

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this hour of Radiolab, we examine the line between language and music.

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0:00.0	Now?
0:05.1	Now? Okay.
0:07.9	You're listening to radio.
0:14.8	I'll continue. We're here report the first large-scale study.
0:21.7	Oh, that's better.
0:22.2	Comparing the prevalence of absolute pitch and two normal populations.
0:25.4	This is Professor Diana Deutsch.
0:27.4	Diana Deutsch.
0:28.5	Well, yeah, I'm going to turn down my headphone level.
0:30.9	And I'm a professor of psychology at the University of California, San Diego.
0:34.9	Can you still hear me, Diana?
0:35.8	Okay. Hello?
0:37.4	Diana studies sound.
0:39.7	How humans perceive sound.
0:41.8	She's a scientist.
0:42.6	She has a lab.
0:43.2	But every so often, she will also release CDs.
0:46.6	Right.
0:47.5	These CDs of audio demonstrations that she uses in her research,
0:51.3	and that's why we called,
0:52.6	because it was in the production of her second CD, that she stumbled onto the weirdest phenomenon.
0:57.3	Well, when you do post-production, as you know, of speech, you loop things, loop things, loop things, so that you can zero in on peas, put,
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