Horripilation
Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”
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Re: Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”
#22“Expectancy violations (e.g., harmonic, rhythmic, and/or melodic violations) are strongly correlated to the onset of musical frisson, such that some level of violated expectation may be a prerequisite.”
Interesting. The Spotify playlist didn't do much for me, but when I think of a couple moments in songs that always give me chills, they all feature that pattern:
Nightwish, Ghost Love Score, Wacken 2013 @ 9:22, affectionately nicknamed the "Floor-gasm" by fans. The melody line feels like it's already gone as high as she can possibly go and is just going to descend by a couple notes. Instead she takes it up another 5th to what feels like an impossibly high note, and then holds it there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47e_961OQWE#t=528
Dream Theater, A Change of Seasons, @ 13:01 and again @ 13:28. It follows one of the odd-time-signatures, chromatic-only jam sessions, and then the band teases an end multiple times starting @ 12:40. When the jam session finally resolves into 4/4 time and the guitar comes in with those held power chords, you're like "Ahhh...." and then just as you start grooving along to that rhythm, the guitars/bass/drums drop out entirely and it's just acapella vocals over keys.
Re: Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”
#23I can't overstate how important music is to my productivity. What I listen to is extremely dependent on my mood and energy levels, but I almost always have on some long playlists (or better still, a single long youtube video, with adblocker on of course). When I need calm, awesomeness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXSrQ_c904M Upbeat productivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-NXWQ9QZwo#t=27m13s When I want to…
on the other hand I cannot listen to music and work, if it's music I like.
Re: Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”
#24I can't overstate how important music is to my productivity. What I listen to is extremely dependent on my mood and energy levels, but I almost always have on some long playlists (or better still, a single long youtube video, with adblocker on of course). When I need calm, awesomeness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXSrQ_c904M Upbeat productivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-NXWQ9QZwo#t=27m13s When I want to…
Heavy metal works for me, for upbeat productivity.
It use to for me too. But these days I need to chill more to Dark Ambient.
Re: Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”
#25> ...Johnny Cash’s “Hurt.”
Feel the need to point out that is a Nine Inch Nails song covered by Cash.
Re: Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”
#26I want to see what these songs look like in frequency space. Especially around the part where the frisson happens. I'm willing to bet they have a common frequency or multiple of a common frequency as a main component.
Long story short, the brain does most of its representation and signaling with frequencies of brain waves. Just like certain bands of the EM spectrum are reserved for TV broadcast and other parts are reserved for WiFi etc, certain bands of brain waves are reserved for motor-sensory IO. If by sheer coincidence you come across a sensory stimulus that oscillates around the carrier wave frequency used to carry that same stimulus, you should experience some funny interference effects.
Throughout evolutionary history there wasn't really a problem using these carrier frequencies because in our natural environment you're not going to accidentally run into a blinking bright light or loud sound with exactly the right pure frequency. Then we invented instruments and later electric light and oscillators.
The relevant band of frequencies is around 30hz - 60hz. More likely than not the musical examples contain beat frequencies rather than directly containing sound in this part of the spectrum.
Re: Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”
#27I've experimented with external vagus nerve stimulation devices and it's my opinion that this sensation, along with "ASMR tinges", has to do with stimulation/activation of the vagus nerve.
Re: Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Heavy metal works for me, for upbeat productivity.
Specifically black metal and blackened death metal for me. edit/ And Sludge.
Same here. There is someting with the almost complete saturation of the mid- and upper frequencies of BM that focuses me like nothing else.
Re: Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”
#29I can't overstate how important music is to my productivity. What I listen to is extremely dependent on my mood and energy levels, but I almost always have on some long playlists (or better still, a single long youtube video, with adblocker on of course). When I need calm, awesomeness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXSrQ_c904M Upbeat productivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-NXWQ9QZwo#t=27m13s When I want to…
on the other hand I cannot listen to music and work, if it's music I like.
Yep. Either I tune out the music or I can't focus no the work.
Re: Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”
#30“Expectancy violations (e.g., harmonic, rhythmic, and/or melodic violations) are strongly correlated to the onset of musical frisson, such that some level of violated expectation may be a prerequisite.” Interesting. The Spotify playlist didn't do much for me, but when I think of a couple moments in songs that always give me chills, they all feature that pattern: Nightwish, Ghost Love Score , Wacken 2013 @ 9:22, affec…
I too was thinking about Ghost Love Score. I get it especially when watching reaction videos when noticing that others are getting it. So, it might not just due to the music itself, but also be a social/emotional effect. I have literally have weekends where I only watched reaction videos and got it over and over again.