I already knew the “idea” behind the backwards-version of the song, but this demo is great. Simon Singh is usually impressive.
I’m wondering, though.. I know that this effect in visual terms is called Pareidolia, it involves “seeing” something because of prejudice, from shapes in the clouds or stars to the face of satan on the WTC cloud of smoke. But does anyone have any idea what it’s called in audio? Is that Pareidolia too?
From the ancient greek the word would be paramythos
I already knew the “idea” behind the backwards-version of the song, but this demo is great. Simon Singh is usually impressive.
I’m wondering, though.. I know that this effect in visual terms is called Pareidolia, it involves “seeing” something because of prejudice, from shapes in the clouds or stars to the face of satan on the WTC cloud of smoke. But does anyone have any idea what it’s called in audio? Is that Pareidolia too?
From the ancient greek the word would be paramythos
para / par (in this context false, unreal)
mythos (something said: word, speech, conversation)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/μῦθος
eidolon (shape, figure, image)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/εἴδωλον#Ancient_Greek
All would be a subset of Apophenia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia