Comments on: Visual Music Test

By: ajhumour

ajhumour — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:11:40 +0000

i have synasthesia btw

By: ajhumour

ajhumour — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:09:00 +0000

100

breakdown
Pitch discrimination: 100%
Musical memory: 89.0%
Contour discrimination: 100%
Attention: 95%
Musical/visual abstraction: 100%

By: sparge

sparge — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:35:14 +0000

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.

By: LoneEagle | orlinsky

LoneEagle | orlinsky — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:30:29 +0000

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.

By: Ola Amigo

Ola Amigo — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:47:29 +0000

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

By: Yoda

Yoda — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:04:52 +0000

Why AMVI?

By: Rosi

Rosi — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:57:32 +0000

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… )

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:56:49 +0000

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.

By: Aurél

Aurél — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:19:10 +0000

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.

By: calliope

calliope — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:18:49 +0000

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?

By: jf

jf — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:51:18 +0000

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

By: fieldsr

fieldsr — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:19:31 +0000

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.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:43:35 +0000

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

By: L

Sat, 24 May 2008 17:10:41 +0000

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.

By: bean

bean — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:13:39 +0000

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

By: nach

nach — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:38:44 +0000

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.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:07:20 +0000

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

By: Tinkergirl

Tinkergirl — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:54:23 +0000

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.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 24 May 2008 09:17:22 +0000

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

By: tona b.

tona b. — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:43:30 +0000

85%. This was fun!

By: Systemdown

Systemdown — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:31:00 +0000

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

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:57:06 +0000

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

By: Jules

Jules — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:38:21 +0000

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

By: L

Sat, 24 May 2008 04:30:01 +0000

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.