KaitouJS wrote:

nest0r wrote:

I've experimented with exposing myself to certain sounds I was very sensitive to (an OCD version of the 'nails on chalkboard' effect, a lifelong susceptibility I've now eliminated), doing so according to vaguely SRS-like progressive intervals for set durations of time. It had the interesting result of making me intensely aware of what about the sounds I was sensitive to as I extensively studied the nature of them (the acoustics and psychoacoustics), and subsequently they no longer bother me when I hear them, because I immediately bring to mind that memorized awareness even amidst unexpected encounters. Okay, that sounds weird, vague, and convoluted. But maybe it's useful somehow (if not to Musicianship then to 'treatment of OCD w/ SRS', perhaps?).

Maybe it might help some musicians get past the oddities of certain timbres of instruments? I for one have trouble deciphering certain synth riffs just because of the way they sound. Asides from that, I couldn't see any practical use for it.

Meh, I can think of half a dozen uses related to sound/music, but I'll have to add them to the list of unformed thoughts I'm too lazy to structure into useful mini web publication.

I'm would not call my myself a musician at all, my only experience comprising of a couple months of piano lessons and compulsory music education in school, however, regarding what someone mentioned earlier about Karaoke I think using SRS for music would be effective in some ways.

I just got back from studying abroad in Japan for a year and when over there, I did a fair amount of karaoke, not usually my idea but I found the more I did it the funner it became.

Anyways, I found that songs that I had listened too many  times, ones I liked and therefore were on my iPod and were listened to frequently (kind of like a natural SRS) when I sang those songs at karaoke I naturally could sing the song fairly well as long as I had the lyrics in front of me and the cues on the tempo.  Now I almost never sing along to songs by self or hum, my brain has no natural capacity for remembering lyrics and I often only recognize a song by the tune of the melody.  So it would seem that using an SRS for song for karaoke or for doing interval training would be effective.  Because it seems that my relatively untrained brain when comes to music naturally would recall the interval changes and tune of the song if it had been repeated enough even as passive listening.  So for someone who actually knows what they're doing, I would think they could derive a lot of benefit from it.