Musical Measurement

While I'm sorting through about four hundred photos from the New Zealand expedition, here's something to keep you all occupied for about twenty-five minutes or so...

How Musical Are You? ~ a survey by a London University...

My scores:~

Subjective importance of music
On this measure you scored 86.666666666667 percent
(The importance you personally place on music.)

Musical perception and production
On this measure you scored 89.285714285714 percent
(Your technical abilities in perceiving and making music.)

Musical training
On this measure you scored 84.126984126984 percent
(The extent of any formal musical training you may have had.)

Emotional engagement
On this measure you scored 82.142857142857 percent
(The extent to which you understand and/or respond to emotion in music.)

Bodily engagement
On this measure you scored 87.755102040816 percent
(Your bodily responses to music, such as humming or tapping along)

Musical creativity
On this measure you scored 84.126984126984 percent
(How much you generate or initiate spontaneous or planned music.)

Openness and event-seeking
On this measure you scored 92.857142857143 percent
(How open you are to new music and musical events.)

Beat matching
On this measure you scored 100 percent
(Your accuracy in the beat-matching task.)

Melodic memory
On this measure you scored 78.571428571429 percent
(Your accuracy in the melodic memory task.)

In defence of my Melodic Memory... it's surprisingly difficult to pick apart simple one-note melodies on a piano. Make sure you do this section somewhere with no background noise ~ especially music... I didn't!!

"I Want To See Mountains Gandalf... Mountains!!"

I left pieces of my soul in two New Zealand locations...

Here:~



Milford Sound... or, more accurately, 'Fjörd'

And here:~



Aoraki... a.k.a. Mt Cook

On our last day, we talked about life's 'Moments'... the ones that define or reset your life. I wonder if this trip, mostly through places with populations either in the 10s or 100s, will be either a contributing or deciding factor in my desired departure from Sydney's 1,000,000s