Why do we love music so?

[downhiller80]

Any ideas?

I was supposed to be revising all day but instead I've listened to MP3's all day. Intended as background, on most of them I've sat there just gazing into middle space, completely absorbed into the music.

Maybe I'm suffering Ibiza withdrawal symptomes.

But my point is this doesn't happen with other senses. Like I wouldn't sit there and watch something on the tele over & over again. Once is enough. New MP3's I'll listen to for an hour solid before moving on.

Why?

Seb

[edit if anyone uses winamp, get the Eonic visualisation plugin. Amazing beat response. [/edit]

 

[konichiwa]

Because music evokes emotion from us unlike other things such as TV. We (at least I) feel what the artist/singer/composer is feeling when he is singing/playing. But only if it's a good song. I think that's what makes them good.

 

[Swag1138]

Totally, Konichiwa. The best bands, and the ones who usually evoke that kind of response in me, are the ones that touch you in some way. Or if they just rock, like the Young Dubliners, the best band of all time.

 

[JellyBaby]

Music lifts the spirit.

 

[dennilfloss]

Some musicality appears tightly woven into the fabric of the universe or at least in man itself. For example, the Neanderthal flute and some old Turkish musical instruments (~8,000yo), along with Sumerian melody transcripts on clay tablets suggest that the scale was already present in our psyche and is possibly inherent to our body.

In fact, many animals like and dislike the same music that humans do.

Sheep (Pink Floyd)

 

[AMDJunkie]

Don't forget that people were passing down stories and such by singing to each other long before written language.

 

[Subversal]

No form of art/expression touches us all in some way the way music does. The most awful sound to one will be cherished by another. Music is tribal and evokes primitive/simplistic emotions in us... joy, hope, sadness. Its hard to explain what music truly feels to me. The feeling is unlike any other when it truly touches me... an unexplainable rush of emotion... sebfrost I sense you like techno/trance music. The song Netherworld by L.S.G is a beautiful song I think you may know. I dunno. I love music more than anything possible... I also love to dance