To decide whether we like a song or not, we take more into account what we see than what we hear. This is the conclusion of a new study from the University of London (United Kingdom) that contradicts the belief that the main determining factor in the evaluation of music is sound. This theory would explain the concern of the artists to create striking stagings and that of their followers to occupy the first row in the auditions.
To examine the impact of visual information when judging a musical production, the researchers showed more than 1,000 musicians a series of musical performances among which they had to identify the winner of the contest in question. They divided the sample into three groups, so that one part of them only heard the sound, another part only viewed it, and the last part saw the entire performance. The results showed that 46 percent of musicians were able to guess the winner by watching video recordings silently and only 30 percent did so based on sound recordings or video and sound recordings.
This preponderance of the image explains why some musical shows are often overrated, and confirms the dominance of the sense of sight in the human being and the submission of his opinion to visual satisfaction.
