Tuesday, August 16, 2011

M.Minsky, "The Emotion Machine" p.197

Finally, our "Storytellers" interpret each piece as similar to events in other realms -such as depicting a journey through space and time, or a skirmish among personalities. One special appeal of music is how effectively it can depict what we might call "abstract emotional scripts" -stories that seem to be about entities about whom we know nothing at all except that we can recognize their individual characteristics -e.g., this one is warm and affectionate, whereas that one is cold and intensive.

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