Expectation and musical perception

"prior knowledge in the brain actually changes what we perceive when listening to music."

My take: What has been called subjectivity is actually objective, and what is objective is experienced as subjective. 

In other words: We can now get rid of the distinction because it has proved too crude. We need other terms.

It is very well described in psychoacoustics for sound and music where correlation between objective parameters and subjective impressions are never confused or conflated but distinguished.

Goethe studies in the physiology of perception for colors explore this borders between subjective and objective impressions. It was a pioneering works.

It is also well described by phenomenology of perception studies in general beginning with Merleau Ponty among others.

Then no need to ban words or replace them , only refine and contextualize their use and meanings... The concept of intersubjectivity in phenomenology is only an example, of a subjective experience or/and of an objective experience which correlate in some way in some level with one another when two subjectivity communicate in some cultural area .

 But for sure you are right about the fact that this distinction between pure  subjectivity and pure objectivity is not only crude but illusory.

In audio threads the subjective school and the objectivist fad opposition illustrate well simplistic attitude at works...

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"prior knowledge in the brain actually changes what we perceive when listening to music."

My take: What has been called subjectivity is actually objective, and what is objective is experienced as subjective.

In other words: We can now get rid of the distinction because it has proved too crude. We need other terms.

Of course prior experience or “knowledge” affects how we experience music.  
A whole bunch of things in our lives, experiences, memories, etc. do this.  
I just sit still and listen.  
If I don’t like it I move on.  
If I like it I inquire further.  
If I’m non-plussed I just move on with the sense that maybe at some point I’ll come back to it and have a stronger feeling, + or -