Musical Illusions and Paradoxes brings together a number of compelling musical illusionsand paradoxes that were discovered by the author. The sounds as they appear to you are notonly quite different from those that are really present, but they sometimes behave so strange-ly as to seem quite impossible.

The illusions also show that people can differ strikingly in how they hear very simple musi-cal patterns. For some illusions, disagreements tend to arise between righthanders and left-handers, showing that they reflect differences in brain organization. For another illusion, per-ceptual variations depend on the geographical region in which the listener grew up, showingthat the way we perceive music can be influenced by the language spoken around us. Usingthe principles that generate Deutsch's illusions, we can now produce music that sounds radi-cally different from one listener to another, and even from one audience to another.

The Compact Disc contains extensive spoken commentary, and comes with a 32-page full-color booklet which describes and illustrates the illusions in detail.

Phantom Words, and Other Curiosities presents a series of striking auditory illusions andcuriosities of sound perception that Diana Deutsch has discovered. Much of this CD is devot-ed to exploring paradoxical relationships between speech and music. In one demonstration, aspoken phrase is repeated several times over. At some point, instead of appearing to be spoken,the words appear to be sung. Another set of tracks demonstrates a striking dissociation betweenmusical tones and spoken words in memory.

The CD is named after the first few tracks, which contain sequences of repeating words andphrases that arise simultaneously from different regions of space. The words coming from thedifferent spatial locations are offset from each other in time. As a result, listeners are given apalette of sounds from which to choose, and so can create in their minds many different com-binations of sounds. After continuous exposure to these repeating words, listeners begin to'hear' words and phrases that are not really there. These 'phantom words' are generated by thebrain in an attempt to extract meaning from the chaos of sound that is presented.

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Quotes about the CDs:perceptions and ... left somewhat disturbed wondering if through-out my life I have been hearing what Verdi and Britten intended'- Patrick Bell, Sound and Video Contractor,1996

'Ready for a science experiment on the stereo? Musical Illusionsand Paradoxes ... an audio CD created by psychologist DianaDeutsch at the University of California at San Diego, proves thatillusions aren't just for the visual realm ... They are great foramazing your friends' - Discover,1998

'An amazing collection of auditory illusions very reasonablypriced. Well worth buying for school resources, if not home use.Also has a very useful explanatory booklet.' - The NationalScience and Technology Centre, Canberra, Australia.

'an excellent source of auditory demonstrations', - Sensation andPerception, by Margaret W. Matlin & Hugh J. Foley

'The illusions range from the beguilingly simple to, as she says,"true weirdness, the twilight zone."' - Peter Monaghan 'In theTwilight Zone of Sound', Notes from Academe, Chronicle ofHigher Education, 2003

'It's like a magic show' - Psychology Today, 2004

'you'll know just how tenuous the connection is between speechand song' (listen to entire show online) - Jad Abumrad, WNYCRadio, 2003.

'"Musical Illusions and Paradoxes" will let you experience somestriking sonic chicanery.' - Shawn Carlson, Scientific American,The Amateur Scientist,1996

'A fascinating new exploration into how we can be fooled' - ScotMorris, Science Writer, Omni Magazine

'A fascinating compact disc ... Musical Illusions and Paradoxes isboth entertaining and disconcerting. I was amazed by my own mis-

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About the Author:Diana Deutsch conducts research on perception and memory for sounds, particularly music. She has discovered a number of musicalillusions and paradoxes, which include the octave illusion, the scale illusion, the glissando illusion, the tritone paradox, and the cambiataillusion , among others. She also explores ways in which we hold musical information in memory, and in which we relate the sounds ofmusic and speech to each other. Much of her current research focuses on the question of absolute pitch - why some people possess it,and why it is so rare.

Deutsch obtained a First Class Honors B.A. in Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. inPsychology from the University of California, San Diego. She has over 150 written publications, including books, book chapters, andarticles. She is Editor of the book The Psychology of Music, Academic Press, 1982, 2nd Edition 1999, (see review), and author of thecompact discs Musical Illusions and Paradoxes (1995) and Phantom Words and Other Curiosities (2003).

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