2026-07-04 10:09 UTC
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@mcmullin@musicians.today 2026-07-04 12:23
@meljoann@topspicy.social That makes sense in terms of the percussive transient sounds, but consistent periodic rhythmic sounds are pretty rare in nature, and don’t tend to mean any one thing. Why are we so drawn to those? Maybe because they’re typically human? I don’t know.
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@meljoann@topspicy.social 2026-07-04 10:13
And the interplay of predictability and surprise in music production, the tension vs release, are really us having a little joke with our amygdalas
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@Shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website 2026-07-04 10:12
@meljoann@topspicy.social I only listen to trees falling in the forest when nobody is there to hear it music x
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@enriquericos@mastoart.social 2026-07-04 11:02
@meljoann@topspicy.social I tried to look into this years ago and everything seemed impossible to confirm, so my pseudoscience sense started tingling and I gave up, but there was this cool idea, where we developed a preference for regular rhythms for mate selection: the regular heartbeat of the person you're with, means that they're a healthy partner, so your brain likes it and you stay with them. I totally buy that all art is neuro-hacking, but proving the specifics...