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Off Topic / Re: What, in your opinion, is music?
« on: November 30, 2013, 02:27:56 PM »
Anybody ever notice how literally everyone likes music?
Even deaf people like music. I've heard and seen on several occasions that deaf people like feeling the rhythms and beats of music, even if they can't hear it. That just kind of blows my mind. What is it about music that makes everyone like it so much?
And animals really don't ever respond to music in any way close to how people do either. People try to use dogs who dance with their owners as examples and other things like that, but I think generally those circumstances are just because the animal is either trained to respond, or they're just responding to the noise itself, or the things that come with it. Like how people act around music, or other things like that. In a lot of ways music can become conditioned stimuli to different reactions in animals depending on what happened when they heard the music, but I've never seen an animal naturally respond to music in any way close to how humans do. That doesn't make sense to me much either.
That and my religious faith have convinced me that music is a very spiritual thing that people can connect with. In my college Music Appreciation class I wrote a paper on that.
Even deaf people like music. I've heard and seen on several occasions that deaf people like feeling the rhythms and beats of music, even if they can't hear it. That just kind of blows my mind. What is it about music that makes everyone like it so much?
And animals really don't ever respond to music in any way close to how people do either. People try to use dogs who dance with their owners as examples and other things like that, but I think generally those circumstances are just because the animal is either trained to respond, or they're just responding to the noise itself, or the things that come with it. Like how people act around music, or other things like that. In a lot of ways music can become conditioned stimuli to different reactions in animals depending on what happened when they heard the music, but I've never seen an animal naturally respond to music in any way close to how humans do. That doesn't make sense to me much either.
That and my religious faith have convinced me that music is a very spiritual thing that people can connect with. In my college Music Appreciation class I wrote a paper on that.
music is art, and therefore can be anything, even silence.Actually yeah. That's an idea people have thrown around a lot recently. One pianist literally sat at his piano for several minutes and called that music. In a few different situations though, if you really focus on that silence, you can almost get a similar sensation as if you were listening to actual music. It's weird, but I'm not going to try to back that up since listening to silence isn't exactly a hobby of mine that I have experience in
