alien musical language modulation 2101 by Adrian Neubauer

alien musical language modulation 2101 electronic conjectural composition with his melodic range spectrogram inspired by this texts:
"When we think about the reality of meeting an extraterrestrial race, we often think about the difficulty, and sometimes supposed impossibility, of communicating or even recognizing that communication was being attempted. We wonder, also, how we could recognize a culture completely outside of our frames of reference. Could we even identify alien artwork, let alone appreciate it? Could we recognize alien music, if they indeed had a concept of music? A paper published in the journal Scientific Reports suggests that humans would be able to recognize and appreciate alien music due to our ability to process language, provided that it follows a couple of rules, and suggests that we might have an easier time understanding a completely alien culture than we’ve previously thought."

"What might alien music sound like? Would it be structured hierarchically as our music is with verses and a chorus? Would we even be able to appreciate it? Vincent Cheung, a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, thinks the answer would be yes, assuming it was predicated on local and non-local dependencies. His research published this week in Scientific Reports explains what exactly that means."
Of course, Mr. Cheung doesn't really have authentic music from a distant world but that is how he referred to the music he developed for his study. He created a novel 'genre' of music described as, "randomly generated combinations of tone-triplets that were combined in a palindrome-like manner." While that may not sound very pleasant, the short stimuli were actually quite pleasing to the ear. Vincent's stimuli allowed the team to overcome the confounding hurtle of local dependencies. Importantly, there were sequences that conformed to a fabricated musical grammar as well as sequences that did not. This opened the door to determining where in the brain musical, non-local, dependencies are processed."
sources:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180313113442.htm

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/04/research-suggests-we-could-recognize-and-appreciate-alien-music/