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Re: Which part is the shaky research and logic?

Just a quick point or two:

That "music" probably wasn't as "unusual" and weird for the test subjects as it might be for you. (They were Japanese.) You shouldn't get arrogant about your own musical preferences; they are just that, nothing more, even though culturally largely (pre)determined.

And as for "audiophiles," I think to all accounts in Japan you'll be likely to find more of them, and more serious ones, than you do in the U.S. They'd probably think very differently about the suitability of Southeast Asian classical music for audiophile ears.

Moreover, as a footnote one could add that gamelan music has been incorporated into "conventional" Western classical music as well, and wouldn't represent that bizarre an encounter to any friends of Messiaen at least.

TL


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