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OctaviaConAmore

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Just a queer bard (and gamer) getting through life while trying to use what skills she has to help make people's lives just a bit better :sylveon_squish:

:cat_wave: Pronouns: She/Her
:ms_earth_world_map: Languages: JP/EN (both native)
:ms_musical_score: Instruments: Violin (primary), cello & flute (secondary)
Extra notes: :heart_trans: :infinity_heart: :heart_bisexual:

(Check out my introduction for more details~)

:zerotwo_learn: Oh, and don't be afraid to DM if you'd like to ask questions or just chat~

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(Rough schedule, times fluctuate a bit)

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pathfinder , to ActuallyAutistic group
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@actuallyautistic

Autistic brains be stupid. Well, obviously not stupid, they just seem to work, or not work, in mysterious ways.

The main one that has always got me, about mine, is that I have no memory for sound, absolutely none. I can't remember a song, or a sound. I can't remember what my parents sounded like and none of my memories carry, for want of a better word, a soundtrack. I can remember what I was thinking and what others were saying, but not hearing them say it, nor any other sound. I also don't dream in sound, at least as far as I know. All my dreams are silent.

And yet, and it's a big yet. I have an excellent memory for voices and sounds. Like many autistics I have near perfect pitch, at least when I'm hearing others sing, or music playing. Just don't ask me to reproduce it, because I can't. If I meet someone I haven't met for a while, then I will almost certainly not recognise their face, or remember their name, but there is a very good chance that I will recognise them from their voice. I am also very good at detecting accents. Even the slightest hint of one in, say, an actor pretending to be an american, will get me searching Wikipedian to see if I am right about their actual nationality.

So, if I can tell the sound of a Honda CBR engine two blocks away, or a voice, or an accent buried deep, I must have the memories to compare against. And yet... nope.

So, as I said, autistic brains be stupid.


OctaviaConAmore ,
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@pathfinder @actuallyautistic just to clarify, do you mean perfect (absolute) pitch or relative pitch? the latter is where, once you're given a starting note, you can hit the right intervals for a piece from there :bugcat_nod:

OctaviaConAmore ,
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@pathfinder @actuallyautistic can you tell it's off only hearing one note, or when you hear two notes? :cinna_confused:

OctaviaConAmore ,
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@pathfinder @actuallyautistic oh, a single wrong note in a pattern? so not like, someone hits one note on a piano completely out of context and you scrunch your nose, right? :blobhaj_think:

OctaviaConAmore ,
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@clowncollege @pathfinder @actuallyautistic to add further context to non-musicians here, "absolute" pitch is what is commonly referred to as "perfect" pitch, where someone is tuned into the 440A equal temperament notes we use in a lot of music that they can hear one note out of context and tell whether it's in-tune or not compared to that set of frequencies, as well as identify which note it is :zerotwo_shrug: (kind of like people can tell what the temperature is just by feel, or the colour of something by sight)

relative pitch is where someone has the ability to tell whether a note is in-tune or out of tune (within a system like 12 tone equal temperament) relative to a starting pitch, whether that's a 440Hz A, 430, 415, 442, etc, but can't name those notes by themselves, nor even with other notes unless they're given the name of one of those notes to compare to the rest :bugcat_nod:

OctaviaConAmore ,
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@pathfinder @actuallyautistic ah, then you have relative pitch, not "perfect" pitch (and considering how the latter deteriorates with age and causes problems, I would argue relative is the better of the two in most cases :jolteon_giggle: ) (I put the sarcastic quote marks there because it is anything but perfect)

OctaviaConAmore ,
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@clowncollege @pathfinder @actuallyautistic I kind of figured you were since you were aware of different tuning systems :espeon_love:

OctaviaConAmore ,
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@clowncollege @pathfinder @actuallyautistic yeah, it's definitely not the best word in that slot, but while relative pitch has a name that works really well, "absolute" or "perfect" pitch are definitely lacking, and I haven't found anything better to replace them :blobfox_laugh_sweat: do you happen to have any handy word to replace "absolute" in this context that isn't the full paragraph I used to describe is somewhere in this thread? :giggle:

OctaviaConAmore ,
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@Tooden @clowncollege @pathfinder @actuallyautistic "western" here isn't being used in the context of genre, but in the context of different tuning systems and musical traditions around the world, where the 12-tone scale based one is generally called "western" musical tradition :bugcat_nod:

OctaviaConAmore ,
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@clowncollege @pathfinder @actuallyautistic yeaaaaaah, I had a similar thought :blobfox_laugh_sweat:

as for 12-tone being taken for granted, considering its sheer dominance, especially in English-familiar places, it's not too surprising, though definitely a bit annoying :zerotwo_shrug:

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