The crucial issue is: what kind of music. A lot of what's nowadays called music is actually rather a "sounds with some beat" category.
Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds
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#53The crucial issue is: what kind of music. A lot of what's nowadays called music is actually rather a "sounds with some beat" category.
Damn kids and their hibbity hoppity...
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#54I'm going in for facial blurring surgery like that gentleman next week. I'm hopeful it will help with my social anxiety.
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#55The crucial issue is: what kind of music. A lot of what's nowadays called music is actually rather a "sounds with some beat" category.
I think you maybe just don't like it?
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#56A while back I had to have a long and unpleasant dental procedure - a bone graft so I could get an implant in an area where the bone had been damaged - this took about 4 hours. During this time the dentist played music - mostly various works selected at random by Hans Zimmer. At one point things got a bit intense as apparently I have very hard bones - which meant that quite a bit of force was being used. The music pl…
Hah, that's great.
My dentist has overhead TVs in all of the rooms. Before a longer appointment I asked if I could bring some over-ear headphones to connect to the TV. Surprisingly nobody had asked that before but they were fine with it. The headphones drowned out the drilling and other noises and helped me zone out into some shows.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Music might be nice - but I'd prioritize comfy noise cancelling headphones and sleep masks, so the poor patients can get some sleep amid the hospital's beeping gadgets, hard surfaces, and blinkenlights.
I recently attended someone in the hospital. The constant beeping and alarms round the clock prevented any deep sleep for days, and seemed to hinder recovery.
This is a strange feature of hospitals that seems very much like we should know better, yet it’s pervasive. Hospital-acquired delirium is very common and awful, and is associated with bad outcomes after leaving the hospital—higher risk of death, and ongoing dementia-like problems.
We know sleep is so critically important to health, yet everything about most hospitals seems basically incompatible with proper sleep: beeping, lights, middle-of-the-night blood draws, shared rooms, no sense of day or night. Not dissimilar to how how we know that people make terrible decisions when they’re sleep deprived, but continue to have resident doctors work unreasonable hours, this is a status quo bias that harms people.
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#58The crucial issue is: what kind of music. A lot of what's nowadays called music is actually rather a "sounds with some beat" category.
Damn kids and their hibbity hoppity...
Different frequencies, different arrangement of tones and melodies, production and tonal qualities of the recording, and all manner of composition variations have different effects.
It might be crass way to say it, but it's a real worthwhile line of inquiry.
Don't think you can smack any beat on someone's head and it will cure cancer. It's not all equal.
Broad strokes here... if you look at another vibrational medium for parallels: the colour red can indicate something about the chemical contents of a material, and thus the effects it may have. A soft black carrot may not have the same beneficial qualities as a crisp red, purple, or white carrot...
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#59If music is so valuable to us humans, then why can't humanity make a site like wikipedia for free music? There is a new generation growing up used to streaming services costing 10 bucks a month.
Wait till you hear how much we have to pay for other life-saving things like drugs and surgery...
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good music is subjective. Aside from the guitar skills involved in shredding, I think heavy metal is probably the worst genre of music.
I'd say good music is objective. Whether it's hard to play, uses complex polyrhythms etc. which most listeners aren't even aware of - and those people tend to think good music is subjective as they can't perceive the quality, only whether they like it or not . There's also some incredibly skilful metal music with no "shredding" whatsoever. I don't particularly like Mozart but I'd be an idiot to say it's not good musi…
If the goal of music is to induce an emotional or intellectual response in a person. Then only the listening person can decide if a response was induced and if that experience impacted them in a positive or negative way. It is the definition of a subjective experience.
The complexity of the music or the technical skill of the artist has nothing to do with it being good or bad. Music anywhere on the spectrum from simple ambient noise to symphonic formalism to simple and infectious can be good or bad based on the taste of the listener.