Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019)

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 2:24 PM UTC

frickinLasers wrote: post #46

erwincoumans wrote: post #35

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Negative vibrations? Don't tell me that -432Hz is better than +432Hz.

Man, I wish I could downvote these threads. This low-effort karma farming garbage belongs on reddit, not here.

Post by janekm » Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 2:27 PM UTC

roelschroeven wrote: post #48

fathyb wrote: post #3

The 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.

Just the act of going through the experiment a second time, now being more familiar with the whole situation, is a plausible cause of lower heart rate all on its own.

Post by belter » Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 2:29 PM UTC

bruce343434 wrote: post #52

snarfy wrote: post #47

I've wondered about the effects of 60 cycle hum. If 440 is an A, I believe 60 is a B. In a lot of popular musical scales this is a dissonant tone. Dissonant tones are associated with anxiety. Is constant 60 cycle hum giving people anxiety?

dissonant with what? I don't think a tone can be dissonant in and of itself, dissonance is a foul combination of waves that are just slightly misaligned.

Post by nixpulvis » Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 2:46 PM UTC

insickness wrote: post #30

nixpulvis wrote: post #25

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I wager your talking more about BPM than the pitch of each note. Perhaps there's some argument that lower tuning naturally gives rise to lower BPM when composing a song, but I'm skeptical of that. If you take a song and transpose it or detune it a bit, you don't mess with the rhythem do you? So if we ignore the tempo; What makes the flattening of a note "calming"? If anything I might become a bit excited or agitated…

It's not just the BPM. When music is pitched down, it loses some of it's shrillness. The lack of higher pitches can have a calming effect because that's where the ears get most fatigued and feel the most "pain" from listening. There's a whole genre of music called Slowed and Reverbed that slows all kinds of music down. Here's an example of a slowed song and a it's original: Cigarettes After Sex - Slowed https://youtu…

Post by gibspaulding » Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 2:59 PM UTC

tgv wrote: post #2

This 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".