Elizabeth Margulis
speaker
267 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Jun
Elizabeth Margulis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What we think is happening here is that if you are a listener in the U.S., you might care a lot about the fact that this excerpt is atonal and be kind of blinded to other aspects of it.
So by atonal, I just mean it's not kind of following these patterns that let you make sense of a particular key that it's in or something like that.
Whereas the listeners in this village ostensibly cared less about the fact that it was atonal and could kind of clue in instead to the fact that it has these really short notes that jump back and forth between high and low registers.
When you start thinking of it that way, you can see how it reads as playful.
And sort of the broader point that I think emerges here is that we have these stable networks of association that emerge across lifetimes of exposure to sounds that can kind of surface and surprise us.
But that it really is this shared kind of current of association and meaning that we're all kind of living within that can fluctuate and change dynamically with time and place and the kinds of patterns that we're experiencing in our lives.
but can also be stable enough to be really interesting.
The specific response.
Exactly.
I started getting curious about this phenomenon because my students were describing it to me when
Wait, you didn't have them yourself?
How did you listen?
Tell me, explain the difference.
To be honest, really critically often, right?
Like what's going on with that phrasing?
I would have done that differently, right?
Or in more charitable cases, listening to things about how it was put together, right?
And how this part relates to that part, just really up in the notes.
And I'm in no way saying that that's not an incredibly valuable thing.
way of engaging with music.
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