Filling in the Words

At the time I watched the midi piano video, I was shocked: isn't this the same trick I've seen played online for years? There's a kind of funny video that plays a song in foreign language and let the viewer to use Chinese pronunciation to catch the words. This often leads to a hilarious result. Although it's not exactly the same process as those videos I described above, the Pareidolia illusion gives me a "scientific" term for the trick I used to play. To be honest, I can't wait to see your product by using this illusion. I'm sure things will get very funny when your product is out. Looking forward to that moment!

At first, I was a bit skeptical about the Pareidolia effect. After listening to what was supposed to be "Staying Alive", i wasn't hearing any voices, but after actually listening to the song and going back, what was once cacophony was unmistakably vocals. Very cool topic. I very much like how you presented the variety of ways in which this effect was manifest in both everyday life and in art. I was quite surprised that it appeared in something as mundane as a toy at McDonalds.

I was really skeptical going in to the video with the compilation of songs converted into midi, especially because I really couldn't pick anything out at first even with the Pokemon theme song. I was basically just humming along. After a minute in though, it really did sound like voices. Pretty neat!

This project also reminded me of the "heard English" lyrics videos that are frequently put up for songs in foreign languages. The ones I remember the best are "O Fortuna" (Gopher Tuna) and Tunak Tunak Tun (can't find this one now... I vaguely recall it being "Duke Duke" or something haha).

This is one of the coolest illusions I've ever seen (heard). You described the illusion well, giving many details and examples. Like Lucy said, I would have added the simple things you hear in conversation; the one I thought of was "olive juice" sounding like "I love you". I think this connects to mishearing people as well, or hearing things just because you were looking for that thing to be said or sound like that. How perception changes based on how you are primed. Overall, this is very well documented and generally awesome!