What effect would a stochastic metronome have on its listener?
What effect would a stochastic metronome have on its listener?
By stochastic, I mean it randomly ticks on only one arbitrary beat per measure
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This is similar to some popular exercises for improving your internal pulse. E.g. having the metronome drop out for a number of bars while you're playing.
My prediction:
On its own, it would be hard to derive the underlying pulse. Even a trained musician would take a little while (my guess is 4+ measures). In the context of a song it would probably have little to no effect.
I could probably test this if anyone's interested
I am. Let us know your findings if you end up testing it and if you have a good way of people testing it out for themselves, that would be cool.
I feel like its something I should be able to code out quick but for some reason I'm drawing a blank
Yeah I'll code this up today and send you a link
Here's a super rough demo: https://metronope.bickio.me/
I agree with you.
I'd be curious if a purely random choice of beat would actually be easier than if there was a skewed bias.