Apr
21
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
“The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud and quiet sections, between fast and slow tempos, and features timbres of extremely high and low pitch, with each dichotomy presented in abrupt transition.
…It can be shown that if there is no covariance—someone who dislikes bagpipes is as likely to hate elevator music as someone who despises the organ, for example—fewer than 200 individuals of the world’s total population would enjoy this piece.”
I can’t post the full 25 minutes on here, but if you want to listen to the whole thing you can grab it from Wired.
