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Welcome to the "Musical Psychoacoustics" (so-called) Wiki, a place where we collect our thoughts (literally and figuratively) in the Spring 2009 version of the Music 175 course at UCSD.

I will try to create a new page for each class soon after the class session, containing my own reflections on what I said, what I should have said, what I heard others say, and other related (and sometimes random) thoughts. I think the best way for folks to react to this material is to use the DISCUSSION tab, where you can either initiate something via an informatively-labeled subject line, or you can respond/reply to someone else's post.

You may also, since the format of the wiki doesn't forbid it (and neither do I), edit the contents of my pages directly, although I would ask that you clearly label your contribution in some fashion, and, in most cases anyway, clearly delimit it from mine using some convention like "#####" (or perhaps "∆∆∆∆∆") on either side of what you have written. I hope it goes without saying that you should not //delete// anything that I or anyone else in the class writes on these pages, and that in general your manner should, as usual, be respectful toward one another, even when you (vigorously!) disagree about the topic at hand.

In some cases it may be appropriate or useful for you to create your own page, and to solicit interactions with others. Again, the wiki format is such that you can do this at any time, and I would only ask that you use good judgment in doing it. If you are not sure whether your topic or idea is something you should write about on a wiki page, feel free to ask me about it privately. But since I've described this wiki as a place where we "collect our thoughts", I suppose it also needs to be a place where we get to "float them out" as in "trial balloons" from time to time. A safe place for unconventional ideas that won't be ridiculed is how I described the course environment in general on day one, and it seems to me this wiki is an opportunity for me (and the rest of us) to make good on that.