Visual Music Test

1. L
   May 23rd, 2008 at 11:30 pm

   Interesting test. I scored 75% overall. If we weren’t allowed to replay the sounds, I probably would’ve scored much lower. It took a few listens for some of them before I figured out the pattern.

2. Jules
   May 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 pm

   I got 80% on it, once you figure out what to listen for it’s not very hard.

3. Sean
   May 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 pm

   Wow, I was able to get a 95%. Perhaps I need to take piano lessons again.

4. Systemdown
   May 24th, 2008 at 12:31 am

   I got a 90%. I could have done better if i wasn’t sick and if it wasn’t late at night.

5. tona b.
   May 24th, 2008 at 12:43 am

   85%. This was fun!

6. Frank
   May 24th, 2008 at 4:17 am

   Damn! Only 33%. Maybe i should have turned on sound…

7. Tinkergirl
   May 24th, 2008 at 5:54 am

   I too got 95% - it’s all to do with narrowing your choices from the ones given. I can’t remember the one I got wrong, but there were quite a few I had to replay the sound on before I felt confident enough to click.
   Still - good fun.

8. Miss Cellania
   May 24th, 2008 at 6:07 am

   L, replay the sounds? Wow, I may have done better if I’d realized you could do that!

9. nach
   May 24th, 2008 at 6:38 am

   I don’t know, I’d rather not do this. My synaesthesia is feeling a lot more restricted than it was before, but I feel that it will be worse if I try to match my synaesthesia, or use to think like, a certain person’s own opinion of these sensations.

10. bean
    May 24th, 2008 at 11:13 am

    The entire test hinges on the premise that the symbols he chose accurately represent the music.

11. L
    May 24th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    I don’t think it’s really synesthesia-based, nach. The symbols only really represent things like the pitch of the phrase (an upward arrow as the pitch rises) or two sounds played together (two symbols overlapping). To base such a test on synesthesia would be next to impossible, as it would be different for everyone.

12. Christophe
    May 24th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    After screwing up the first 3, I gave the choices to my 4 years old and he scored 65%

13. fieldsr
    May 24th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    I got a 90, but seeing as Frank is the only one who scored lower than what is considered “high-normal,” I’m thinking this thing might not be as hard as it says it is.

14. jf
    May 24th, 2008 at 10:51 pm

    19/20….really? world class performance, extremely rare? im not very musical…once you learn the rules, its not hard!

15. calliope
    May 24th, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    yeah, i just got 100%, i’m not a musician … but i am designer, so my world is very visual all the time anyways … it can’t be that hard, is it?

16. Aurél
    May 25th, 2008 at 1:19 am

    I got 95…

    Bean, it only matters if you actually are synesthetic, which I sort of doubt you are… the symbols don’t have to match the music, you just have to remember that each symbol represents a different melody…and varies each time. It doesn’t matter if they “match” or not. After all, for most of us, no melody sounds square…or triangular.

17. Foosnark
    May 25th, 2008 at 1:56 am

    I thought it was pretty easy; I got a 95% and probably would have hit 100% if I had noticed the replay feature early on.

18. Rosi
    May 25th, 2008 at 2:57 am

    I didn’t really understand it. Were we meant to match the music to the symbols using logic, or our instincts, or just what we thought best represented it? This is kind of like the scoring they use for experimentalism, but really basic. I didn’t finish the test in the end, it just got on my nerves (and I’m usually really good at music… )

19. Yoda
    May 25th, 2008 at 8:04 am

    Why AMVI?

20. Ola Amigo
    May 25th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    I didn’t get it. How does one of the shapes correspond to music? What’s the rule. Oh well. Interesting thing anyway.

21. LoneEagle | orlinsky
    May 25th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    Pitch discrimination: 79.7%
    Musical memory: 91.0%
    Contour discrimination: 75.9%
    Attention: 84.9%
    Musical/visual abstraction: 88.7%

    All in all, my score is 85%. I guess it’s not that bad.

22. sparge
    May 27th, 2008 at 10:35 am

    Let’s see: for the scoring there’s three categories that basically mean GREAT, one for NORMAL, and one for GOOD TRY.

    Wouldn’t want anyone to feel bad for scoring poorly on an abstract internet test.

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