It’s just rhythms and pitches really, in a sequence. But we don’t love patterns, a scale sounds boring. It’s the breaking of the patterns that sound good in music, but only in specific ways. Other ways sound discordant. What the duck is going on?
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Yes I am a human, I love human things like… um… music…
finishes zipping up skinsuit
My man!
I’m also interested in why there is such varying tastes in music. Why do I love metal but hate pop? shrugs
And why do I love both metal and bluegrass, and find them similar?
While I enjoy a lot of metal and not any bluegrass that I’ve heard, I do sorta get that one. They do share quite a bit in terms of their rhythmic feel, both (depending on your metal subgenre) doing a lot of rapid-fire staccato notes to keep up a really fast pace, and also share some of their roots in Black American music. The timbres of the instruments used the choices of notes are very different of course, but I don’t think that you’re inventing a non-existent similarity
Hey, fuck that song! Listen to Harvester of Constant Sorrow for an on-the-nose Thrash Grass mashup!
Then unfuck that song and listen to it again, and then this one again. And then listen to Leo, and then UMC, and finally fuck your own ears with the dulcet duality of Bardcore.
The only thing I love more than an artist creating their own song is another artist lovingly reinterpreting it.
Oh my friend!
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=iron+horse+bluegrass+metallica
I just put Metallica to give you a taste, MUCH more!
Same! I really hope I get to be the first one to show you this 🤘
Love it! 🤘🤘
Probably based on where you were born and raised:
NOOOOOOOOOOO, GODDD NOOOOOOOOOOO
And here I am, I don’t really like pop and I don’t really like metal but put them together and I’m in heaven.
How did I know it was going to be Babymetal? 😛
Knew what it was before even clicking
GIMME CHOCOLATE
But we don’t love patterns
I would disagree with that somewhat - I think we do love patterns, but the more complex and intricate the better.
Which is why music appeals so much - it’s chock full of patterns overlaying each other, echoing and counterpointing each other, contrasting each other in ways that are both conflicting and harmonious. Good music is like seeing the rhythms of the world all around you.
Yes! When a chorus repeats and becomes familiar, or when a sequence resolves and the pattern is “recognized”. Satisfying to the core.
Exactly - chills up the spine moments!
By the way your link didn’t work, but this one might: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_(music)?wprov=sfla1
And on the flip side, when you’re singing a little improvised song and your coworker prevents you from resolving the melody, it can be frustrating.
I’m not a scientist, but I think it is because humans like patterns, which is what music is. What makes random banging and loud noises annoying and how is that different from music? I think the answer is that music has patterns. What makes people like or hate different types of music is that they like one pattern over another.
“Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hail souls from mens’ bodies?” – Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
(Guitar/lute strings used to be made from sheep gut, for anyone confused)
Are we sure he wasn’t talking about condoms?
It is in the context of a guy singing. The next line is something like “if it was a dog that had howled thus, he’d have shot him”
Because at it’s core, music is a beautiful lack of auditory dissonance. See this minutephysics episode for an in depth explanation why. It’s fundamental. (to music itself, not to any particular style of music) https://youtu.be/tCsl6ZcY9ag
i can only think of one style of music that doesn’t heavily rely on dissonance.
I don’t. And I don’t understand why I’m the only one who just in general would rather hear silence then music.
I’ve met 2 people like that, you’re not alone! I love music but y’all are valid
I too like silence, then music, when the album I’m listening to intended to have a break between songs.
However, if the songs’ tracks are meant to fade from one to the next without a break, it’s annoying and distracting if I can hear a silence between them, however small – even just a click – then music.
I don’t know anything about specifics, or actual explanations, but I once heard it said that Art decorates space and music decorates time.
The answer is we don’t know unfortunately. I dont think scientists have found a definitive answer on this one. The theory tho is that it had some evolutionary benefit in the past, but we dont know why that would be either.
My pet theory is that our brain rewards us for interpreting clues correctly, because this is crucial for survival. And patterns make it easy to do this interpretation correctly, therefore triggering the reward system frequently.
But if it is too easy to interpret a pattern correctly, the reward will be lessened, because the challenge you succeeded in was lesser. And it was also crucial to survival to fade out patterns which don’t change, so that e.g. the wind brushing through leaves doesn’t drown out the noises from a predator approaching.
That’s why patterns which don’t change every so often stop triggering the reward system and therefore bore us.
Don’t animals also “understand” music to some extent and seem to enjoy it?
To drown out the sound of your brain counting the moments until your next shift at work.
13 hours 50 minutes…
Birds love music too now you mention it.
It’s mainly to get laid. Now that I think of it, that’s kind of the case with human music as well.
Why do we like reading? It’s just arbitrary characters, really, in a sequence.
This discounts so many quantitative and absolute qualities of music.
I think all experience of art, enjoyable for us or not, is something the brain adheres to because it is unlike nature. Nature tries to all blend together in a very loose way. We categorize many things like animals, land, the stars… but it all is really just one thing. Art is the ability to purposefully change that continuity with intent. To see something sitting there, doing nothing, and you feel the desire to arrange it in some way.
Music is no different. We realized sound was one of our senses and most of nature’s songs are chaotic, outside the rare particularly talented bird.
We’ve found ways to harness sound into whatever we found is most pleasing. And it seems what it pleasing is different from one person to the next, but also shares ground through the instruments we use.
I imagine when we first started rhythmically hitting sticks on rocks, it wasn’t long before we had an arrangement of our favorite sticks and rocks to hit together. And we just kept getting more creative from there.
