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What does music do for you?

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archcommus

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I think it's incredible what music can do for the human mind. It's amazing, I wonder what it is about it that does it.

What does music do for you? Do you use it to raise you up when you're down? Do you use it to help you feel inspired, or hopeful? In other words what does listening to your music DO for you besides just providing a pasttime.
 
Originally posted by: archcommus
I think it's incredible what music can do for the human mind. It's amazing, I wonder what it is about it that does it.

What does music do for you? Do you use it to raise you up when you're down? Do you use it to help you feel inspired, or hopeful? In other words what does listening to your music DO for you besides just providing a pasttime.
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All of the above 🙂
 
Originally posted by: archcommus
I think it's incredible what music can do for the human mind. It's amazing, I wonder what it is about it that does it.

What does music do for you? Do you use it to raise you up when you're down? Do you use it to help you feel inspired, or hopeful? In other words what does listening to your music DO for you besides just providing a pasttime.
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Music is really great because any song can bring about different emotions in different people. It's all about perception. I could be listening to a song that makes me think about family and friends, or any other past or anticipated event. The same song could make someone else think about something completely different.
 
makes the hair on my arms stand on end. makes me party harder if i hear a good tune. i fscking love music. let's all rock out right NOW

\m/ -_- \m/ :music:
 
Originally posted by: lavagirl669
makes me wanna dance nekkid 😀
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Pics? 😀

I love music though, I pretty much always have my earbuds in and am listening to music right now.

All day long at work I just tune out my surroundings and focus on what I'm doing while listening to music.
 
I have wondered what it is about music that affects people so much. When you get down to it, there's no logical reason.

You think of all the types of sounds that we hear and none of them really affect us emotionally. Then you take some different sounds, arrange them in a particular sequence (i.e. music), and your brain reacts to it. I think it's completely fascinating.

Since music doesn't occur in nature, I can't figure out why our brains are wired that way. Doesn't seem possible it could be an evolutionary thing.
 
Originally posted by: archcommus
I think it's incredible what music can do for the human mind. It's amazing, I wonder what it is about it that does it.

What does music do for you? Do you use it to raise you up when you're down? Do you use it to help you feel inspired, or hopeful? In other words what does listening to your music DO for you besides just providing a pasttime.
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Everything there. 🙂
 
Music feeds my soul. My hearing would be the last thing I'd ever want to loose. Take my sight, speach, ability to walk, but don't take music away from me.
 
Originally posted by: kranky
I have wondered what it is about music that affects people so much. When you get down to it, there's no logical reason.

You think of all the types of sounds that we hear and none of them really affect us emotionally. Then you take some different sounds, arrange them in a particular sequence (i.e. music), and your brain reacts to it. I think it's completely fascinating.

Since music doesn't occur in nature, I can't figure out why our brains are wired that way. Doesn't seem possible it could be an evolutionary thing.
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I was about to agree with you and go "Hmmmm".. but then I realized that "music" DOES occur in nature.. Just not in the generally extremely complex forms that we call music, heh.

I dunno, I can't really come up with any words, but I'm sure there is info out there about this subject.

Musical notes basically are nature. They're natural. We have certainly evolved with them.... Dunno.

I'm sure there is an evolutionary aspect. Music in some form or another has probably been around ever since the first group of men to become self aware roamed the planet....

Man-made music, that is. Music in other forms has been around for a very, very long time. Wind, waves, insects, birds...
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: kranky
I have wondered what it is about music that affects people so much. When you get down to it, there's no logical reason.

You think of all the types of sounds that we hear and none of them really affect us emotionally. Then you take some different sounds, arrange them in a particular sequence (i.e. music), and your brain reacts to it. I think it's completely fascinating.

Since music doesn't occur in nature, I can't figure out why our brains are wired that way. Doesn't seem possible it could be an evolutionary thing.
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I was about to agree with you and go "Hmmmm".. but then I realized that "music" DOES occur in nature.. Just not in the generally extremely complex forms that we call music, heh.

I dunno, I can't really come up with any words, but I'm sure there is info out there about this subject.

Musical notes basically are nature. They're natural. We have certainly evolved with them.... Dunno.

I'm sure there is an evolutionary aspect. Music in some form or another has probably been around ever since the first group of men to become self aware roamed the planet....

Man-made music, that is. Music in other forms has been around for a very, very long time. Wind, waves, insects, birds...
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But doesn't our reaction to music ultimately signify that we really are different in an incomprehendable way than our former ancestors from which we evolved? That is why I never believed we directly and naturally evolved from something very primate-like.

Yeah that was OT. Just had to mention it.

 
Originally posted by: archcommus
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: kranky
I have wondered what it is about music that affects people so much. When you get down to it, there's no logical reason.

You think of all the types of sounds that we hear and none of them really affect us emotionally. Then you take some different sounds, arrange them in a particular sequence (i.e. music), and your brain reacts to it. I think it's completely fascinating.

Since music doesn't occur in nature, I can't figure out why our brains are wired that way. Doesn't seem possible it could be an evolutionary thing.
Click to expand...
I was about to agree with you and go "Hmmmm".. but then I realized that "music" DOES occur in nature.. Just not in the generally extremely complex forms that we call music, heh.

I dunno, I can't really come up with any words, but I'm sure there is info out there about this subject.

Musical notes basically are nature. They're natural. We have certainly evolved with them.... Dunno.

I'm sure there is an evolutionary aspect. Music in some form or another has probably been around ever since the first group of men to become self aware roamed the planet....

Man-made music, that is. Music in other forms has been around for a very, very long time. Wind, waves, insects, birds...
Click to expand...
But doesn't our reaction to music ultimately signify that we really are different in an incomprehendable way than our former ancestors from which we evolved? That is why I never believed we directly and naturally evolved from something very primate-like.

Yeah that was OT. Just had to mention it.
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What makes you believe that? I've never heard anyone say other primates can't "comprehend" music. (in similar ways our brain does it)
 
I find bach excellent for studying. The dymanics never get too extreme, the tempo stays constant, and the texture stays the same throught every piece.
 
Originally posted by: Vertimus
On the primates thing:

good article

It's a pdf2html in google.
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Whew, that is a weighty paper, but I found it interesting. What I got out of it is that the authors found that emotional responses to music were uniquely human, but without explanation. The work done with animals seemed to be more of a training exercise than pure observation. They could not train animals to distinguish between certain changes in music (shifting octaves, etc.) as humans intuitively can do.

We say that birds "sing", and while they make noises that sound like music, it's really just speech. The "songs" have meanings - mating calls, danger, etc. So that's not music as we commonly refer to it.

A particularly interesting comment was the study of lullabies. These are found in every culture and share remarkably similar characteristics in pitch and tempo as well as the "way" they are sung. Only humans vocalize in such a way to their young.

The authors point out there is much research to be done, but essentially they had no explanation regarding why humans respond emotionally to music.
 
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