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We are conducting an experiment which attempts to address the question of
"musicality."  That is, how can we distinguish music from noise?  Our 
experiment is conducted via the World-Wide Web, so you don't even have
to leave your office/home/school to participate.  Have fun listening to
some new music while helping us answer some tough questions in the field
of Music Cognition.

The experiment consists of a number of trials, and you may complete as many
or as few trials as you wish.  On each trial you will be listening to two
pieces of music, ratings the pieces on two different scales, and then 
rating the similarity of the two pieces.

What you need:

    + a WWW browser, such as MacWeb or Netscape (Mosaic seems to have
      problems with our page, for some darned reason)
    + a machine able to play .au soundfiles which have been sampled at
      8KHz, 16KHz, and 22.3KHz (you should have no trouble on a Macintosh,
      but if you have a Sparc, it will have to be one of the newer ones 
      that isn't limited to 8KHz sampling rate)
    + a sound player--if you're on a Mac and you don't have a sound player,
      we have provided a pointer to our copy of SoundMachine that you can
      download while you're reading the instruction page
    + headphones (optional, but you'll no doubt bother your neighbours
      unless you have an office to yourself)
    + desire to hear some new music and have fun

Unfortunately, that limits the audience quite a bit, but if you've made it
this far, here's the URL:

	http://psych.colorado.edu/~angst/musicality.html

Enjoy!

Dave Steinhart (angst@psych.colorado.edu)
Eric Fowler (fowler@colorado.edu)
Jeremy Brown (brownjr@cs.colorado.edu)


--
Dave Steinhart (angst@psych.colorado.edu) ... "In Western culture today, 'Holy 
Shit' functions as an an exclamation of surprise or dismay precisely because 
it has no reference beyond itself; its power as a profanity derives from the 
paradox embedded in it.  For us, excrement is never divine." -- Cecelia F. Klein