WORDS
Can the original concept be recovered from the music alone?
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FIELD NOTES: WORDS_01 // BLIND LISTENING EXPERIMENT
WORDS began with a deliberately simple question:
If an AI is given only a word, what does that word sound like to it?
A second question followed naturally:
If the listener is not told the word, can they hear it anyway?
For this listening test the original track titles and individual track artwork are deliberately hidden. The album cover remains static to reduce visual priming.
Below is a shuffled bank of possible words and definitions. There are more definitions than tracks; some are distractors. A definition may be used more than once, so elimination alone cannot solve the test.
Listen first. Choose the definition that feels most consistent with the music. Confidence is optional, but useful.
WORD DEFINITION BANK:
ASSIGN THE DEFINITIONS:
You do not need to answer every track in one sitting. Your choices are saved in this browser and may be submitted again later; newer answers replace older answers for the same browser participant ID.
The test is intentionally simple. It does not prove that a musical form has one objectively correct meaning. It asks whether listeners independently associate these AI-generated pieces with the same concepts that originally prompted them, and whether those associations survive when the titles and artwork are removed.
// CLASSIFICATION: ASSOCIATION TEST
THE WORD WAS GIVEN TO THE MACHINE.
It is now withheld from the listener.