Emotion in Classical Music Experiment

[Shatera]

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Hello.  My name is Tyson Platt, and I am a Professor of Psychology at Alabama State University.  I am currently investigating how listeners detect and experience emotional content in experimental music.  To that end, I need your help!  I am conducting an experiment on the detection of emotional content in experimental music, and I am seeking participants for the experiment.  If you are interested in participating in the experiment, please follow this link to learn more about the research and participate in the experiment.  The experiment will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.  During the experiment, you will be asked to listen to a clip of music and indicate what emotional content you detect in the music.  You will not be asked to provide any identifiable information (e.g., name, address, etc.) during the experiment.  Please be aware that you must be at least 18 years of age to participate in the experiment.  If you are willing to participate in this research, please only complete the experiment once.  Thank you for your help.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DrewAustin

[Brahmsian]

The link to the survey does not work.

[DavidW]

The link to the survey does not work.

The link is meant to be this: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/debarre

OP, this forum is small and we are all on different time zones.  Some patience please.  If anyone chooses to participate, it might still take 2-3 days.

[vers la flamme]

Done! I wanna read the paper when it's done 

[Florestan]

Looks like a hoax. I mean, is Jean DeBarre even a real composer? I very much doubt it. Besides Google never having heard about him, the description of his life* and work is completely at odd with the musical clip, which sounds like randomly generated sounds.

* "the most sought-after composer in Paris", are we supposed to take this b****t seriously?

[vers la flamme]

Looks like a hoax. I mean, is Jean DeBarre even a real composer? I very much doubt it. Besides Google never having heard about him, the description of his life* and work is completely at odd with the musical clip, which sounds like randomly generated sounds.

* "the most sought-after composer in Paris", are we supposed to take this b****t seriously?

Obviously, it's not a real composer, and I don't think the makers of the study are trying to convince anyone that he is. I have a feeling you missed the point 

[DavidW]

Looks like a hoax. I mean, is Jean DeBarre even a real composer? I very much doubt it. Besides Google never having heard about him, the description of his life* and work is completely at odd with the musical clip, which sounds like randomly generated sounds.

* "the most sought-after composer in Paris", are we supposed to take this b****t seriously?

That is funny because while I would not describe the music as blissful, it did sound humorous, mellow and light hearted to me.

[Florestan]

Obviously, it's not a real composer, and I don't think the makers of the study are trying to convince anyone that he is. I have a feeling you missed the point 

My point is that I don't like to be duped, not even in academic interest. 

I'm sure that many, if not most, who took the test and had little or no knowledge of 20th-century French music genuinely believed that Jean DeBarre was real.

Anyway, gotta love pronouncing "Jean" as "gin". 

[Florestan]

That is funny because while I would not describe the music as blissful, it did sound humorous, mellow and light hearted to me.

To use Tyson Platt's terminology, I heard or felt no emotion at all. A flushing toilet or the traffic outside would have sounded all the same to me. I guess I'm a sociopath. 

[Florestan]

Btw:

https://soundcloud.com/tyson-platt-1

https://homerecording.com/bbs/threads/emotion-in-music-experiment.420338/#post-4750712

[vers la flamme]

Btw:

https://soundcloud.com/tyson-platt-1

https://homerecording.com/bbs/threads/emotion-in-music-experiment.420338/#post-4750712

Interesting that you and that guy had the same very strong negative reaction to this study. That's gotta be worth something, academically, on its own. 

[Brahmsian]

I had done the survey a few days ago and I just tried to rush through answering the questions so it probably wasn't an accurate assessment. And now I just feel duped.

[DavidW]

I had done the survey a few days ago and I just tried to rush through answering the questions so it probably wasn't an accurate assessment. And now I just feel duped.

What, you've never heard of the famous Jean DeBarre?!?  Debussy credited him with teaching him the importance of bliss in music.  He never would have wrote Pelléas et Mélisande if he wasn't so deeply inspired by DeBarre's work.  You must have missed the enormous thread on DeBarre that dwarfs even the Havergal Brian thread!

[Florestan]

What, you've never heard of the famous Jean DeBarre?!?  Debussy credited him with teaching him the importance of bliss in music.  He never would have wrote Pelléas et Mélisande if he wasn't so deeply inspired by DeBarre's work. 

Actually, that's not Jean DeBarre, he was born in 1919. It's Jean-Marie DeBarre, his father's uncle, born in 1841. In the 1870s he was the  most sought-after composer in Sainte-Fredegonde-de-Chateaulouche.

[pjme]

It is clearly stated that De Barre is a FICTIONAL composer....
Wish he was real though and looking like this, par example...



Jean Auguste Barre par Nadar
and it would sound like this ...

or



Michel de la Barre (c. 1675 – 15 March 1745)

or is it ...Jean De Barre (de mesure)?

[Cato]

It is clearly stated that De Barre is a FICTIONAL composer....
Wish he was real though and looking like this, par example...



Jean Auguste Barre par Nadar
and it would sound like this ...

The "French Symphony" is a real find: one of the best works by Theodore Dubois.

Does anyone recognize the work in the experiment?

It sounds like an imitation of Webern's Concerto for 9 Instruments or Improvise' by Pierre Boulez.

Those works, however, are more interesting.

Somebody suggested that it was computer-generated (?).

[Shatera]

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Hello.  My name is Tyson

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Hello.  My name is Tyson Platt, and I am a Professor of Psychology at Alabama State University.  I am currently investigating how listeners detect and experience emotional content in experimental music.  To that end, I need your help!  I am conducting an experiment on the detection of emotional content in experimental music, and I am seeking participants for the experiment.  If you are interested in participating in the experiment, please follow this link to learn more about the research and participate in the experiment.  The experiment will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.  During the experiment, you will be asked to listen to a clip of music and indicate what emotional content you detect in the music.  You will not be asked to provide any identifiable information (e.g., name, address, etc.) during the experiment.  Please be aware that you must be at least 18 years of age to participate in the experiment.  If you are willing to participate in this research, please only complete the experiment once.  Thank you for your help.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DrewAustin

Platt, and I am a Professor of Psychology at Alabama State University.  I am currently investigating how listeners detect and experience emotional content in experimental music.  To that end, I need your help!  I am conducting an experiment on the detection of emotional content in experimental music, and I am seeking participants for the experiment.  If you are interested in participating in the experiment, please follow this link to learn more about the research and participate in the experiment.  The experiment will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.  During the experiment, you will be asked to listen to a clip of music and indicate what emotional content you detect in the music.  You will not be asked to provide any identifiable information (e.g., name, address, etc.) during the experiment.  Please be aware that you must be at least 18 years of age to participate in the experiment.  If you are willing to participate in this research, please only complete the experiment once.  Thank you for your help.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DrewAustin

[SimonNZ]

Is this a Turing test for someone trying to develop and ultimately market an AI?

If so I'm going to want to be paid for my assistance.

[Cato]

Is this a Turing test for someone trying to develop and ultimately market an AI?

If so I'm going to want to be paid for my assistance.

I have been skeptical of this topic somewhat, but the last non-comment from "Shatera"/Prof. Tyson Platt made me wonder even more!

So I found that a Professor Tyson Platt does indeed teach at an Alabama university: I sent him an e-mail inquiring whether this topic is really from him.

No answer yet, but it is still early.

[Florestan]

I have been skeptical of this topic somewhat, but the last non-comment from "Shatera"/Prof. Tyson Platt made me wonder even more!

So I found that a Professor Tyson Platt does indeed teach at an Alabama university: I sent him an e-mail inquiring whether this topic is really from him.

No answer yet, but it is still early.

One Tyson Platt does have a soundcloud account with three clips, where one and the same "music" is ascribed to three  different fictional composers (see my reply #9).

It's most certainly a hoax. Whether Prof. Platt (whose reality I also checked a week ago) is consciously involved or not, I cannot tell.