jane
Well-Known Member
Does anyone know any interesting studies of the way the human body/brain responds physically and psychologically to music?
I know there's lots of philosophy out there, but I'm looking for a chemical and psychological thing. Taste is a multi-factorial thing, but I want to know about the scientific dimension.
Certain voice tones, chord progressions, etc -- how they work together with our memory banks, our history of music taste, our age, etc.
Like why I want to weep when I hear Bruce, but I seriously don't fucking 'get' Nirvana, when other people shed tears of ecstasy when they hear Smells Like Teen Spirit. I guess I'm less interested in why I don't get Nirvana, but in why I actually had a physical response to Badlands when Bruce played it. I mean like, seriously. I wasn't playing around -- it was intense.
I know there's lots of philosophy out there, but I'm looking for a chemical and psychological thing. Taste is a multi-factorial thing, but I want to know about the scientific dimension.
Certain voice tones, chord progressions, etc -- how they work together with our memory banks, our history of music taste, our age, etc.
Like why I want to weep when I hear Bruce, but I seriously don't fucking 'get' Nirvana, when other people shed tears of ecstasy when they hear Smells Like Teen Spirit. I guess I'm less interested in why I don't get Nirvana, but in why I actually had a physical response to Badlands when Bruce played it. I mean like, seriously. I wasn't playing around -- it was intense.