Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019)
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Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019)
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Re: Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019)
#2This has been discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29849033
It's a very, very bad study. If you want to know how bad: it would lend equal support to the hypothesis "everyone's heart rate drops 4.8bpm in one day".
Re: Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019)
#3The fact that music tuned to 432 Hz might sound slightly off to listeners might explain the change in attention, which in turn might explain the change in heart rate.
It would have been helpful measure other tuning values like 430 or 445 Hz to determine if it's caused by 432 Hz specifically.
Re: Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019)
#4How did they transform the original music to A=432Hz?
If they did it in the naïve way, it would result in a decrease in tempo by almost 2%.
Re: Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019)
#5As an avid vaporwave listener, I’d wager that listening to music slowed down / pitched down has a calming psychological effect in general. In other words, 432hz is not some magic number, it’s better because it’s lower.
Re: Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019)
#6This is the only thing you need to really watch about this nonsense: https://youtu.be/EKTZ151yLnk
Re: Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019)
#7Was it a double-deaf study?
Re: Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019)
#8Looking at the number of tested variables, this seems very relevant: https://xkcd.com/882/
Re: Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019)
#9How did they transform the original music to A=432Hz? If they did it in the naïve way, it would result in a decrease in tempo by almost 2%.
Good question, but nowadays all video players and platforms are able to increase/decrease the speed of a video without affecting the audio's pitch, so I guess the reverse is also widespread...
Re: Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019)
#10How did they transform the original music to A=432Hz? If they did it in the naïve way, it would result in a decrease in tempo by almost 2%.
i'm also guessing they didn't test different temperament tunings either, which is a shame given that the whole argument for 432Hz has to do with mathematical symmetry