Re:We know music is pleasurable, the question is why?
by staticautomatic on Thursday September 06, 2018 @09:17PM
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You really ought to try acid sometime.
Re:We know music is pleasurable, the question is why?
by plaguuuuuu on Friday September 07, 2018 @12:52AM
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Music is a form of communication. What I experience in certain pieces of music is a connection with a particular set or category of feelings that verbal language is simply unable to describe with an equivalent clarity and it's a sort of empathy shared with the composer.
edit: Can you guess what people might feel from this piece? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XWKq_kg2Ws
Re:We know music is pleasurable, the question is why?
by firdak on Friday September 07, 2018 @07:14AM
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> Can you guess what people might feel from this piece? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XWKq_kg2Ws
That's a difficult one. It didn't make me feel anything, so I really do have to guess what other people might feel.
For example, I have to think about occasions on which similar pieces of music are generally used. A solo piano like this piece is often sad, but on the other hand, this piece has a higher tempo than most sad songs.
I, in turn, find this somewhat astonishing. Not only is it so different from my own experience, it's difficult to understand.
When you're enjoying a piece of music, you can at least imagine what it would be like not to feel anything. For me, though, when I see people enjoying music, it's so confusing. What am I "supposed" to be feeling?