Music and felt emotions: How systematic pitch level variations affect the experience of pleasantness and arousal

Abstract   “There was also a significant, yet smaller, negative relationship between pitch level and arousal, moderated by gender: Compared to higher pitch, lower pitch was associated with higher arousal in men only.”   Content   Music and felt emotions: How systematic pitch level variations affect the experience of pleasantness and arousal Lucas Jaquet Brigitta … Read more

Long-term music training tunes how the brain temporally binds signals from multiple senses

Practicing a musical instrument is a rich multisensory experience involving the integration of visual, auditory, and tactile inputs with motor responses. This combined psychophysics-fMRI study used the musician’s brain to investigate how sensory-motor experience molds temporal binding of auditory and visual signals. Behaviorally, musicians exhibited a narrower temporal integration window than nonmusicians for music but … Read more

Topographic maps of multisensory attention

Abstract   The intraparietal sulcus (IPS) region is uniquely situated at the intersection of visual, somatosensory, and auditory association cortices, ideally located for processing of multisensory attention. We examined the internal architecture of the IPS region and its connectivity to other regions in the dorsal attention and cinguloinsular networks using maximal connectivity clustering. We show … Read more

Richard Gill – The Value of Music Education

Music educator Richard Gill argues the case for igniting the imagination through music and for making our own music. In this talk, he leads the TEDxSydney audience through some surprising illustrations of the relationship between music … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeRus3NVbwE   Richard Gill was an esteemed Australian conductor, music educator, and advocate for music education. Throughout his … Read more

Affective constraints on acquisition of musical concepts: Children’s and adults’ development of the major-minor distinction

Abstract Across cultures and age groups music has a powerful impact on human affective states. We examined the effect of these affective responses on children’s and adults’ ability to label musical excerpts as major or minor. Content Affective constraints on acquisition of musical concepts: Children’s and adults’ development of the major-minor distinction Clarissa A. Thompson … Read more

The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Music Instruction on Intelligence and General Cognitive Abilities

Abstract This article reviews research on the effects of music instruction on general cognitive abilities. The review of more than 75 reports shows (1) the consistency in results pertaining to the short-term effects of music instruction on cognitive abilities and the lack of clear evidence on the long-term effects on intelligence; (2) the complex nature … Read more

Bach’s Twenty Children

Content Of Johann Sebastian Bach’s twenty children, three were outstanding musicians in their own right. Of these three – Wilhelm Friedmann, Johann Christian and Carl Philipp Emanuel – the last was the most influential as a composer, creating a bridge between the exuberant Baroque style of his father and the Classical style of Haydn and … Read more

Soul Resonance and Music, montalk.net

Abstract Esoterically, the answers to these questions also correspond to the “story of your life.” The same soul resonance characteristics that are touched by music are also touched by your inner responses to life events. In fact, it is these resonance characteristics that synchronistically attract such events in the first place through quantum-metaphysical processes. Thus … Read more

The Power of the Aether as Related to Music and Electricity – Eric Dollard

Abstract   “Originally, mankind was on a path that is in alignment with the harmonic natural laws of the universe. This was from the time of Pythagoreas up to Johann Sebastian Bach. Then, the big shift came. This divergence basically turned everything inside out. All of this understanding has become denied and despised. There has … Read more

The Mind Control manipulations of the illuminati Music Industry [Mark Devlin – New Horizons 2014]

The 22nd of September 2014. Mark Devlin gives a stunning presentation to New Horizons Saint Annes…The Mind Control manipulations of the illuminati Music Industry. Mark Devlin is a UK-based club and radio DJ, music journalist and author, and is renowned for his understanding of what’s really going on in the music media. In 2010, Mark … Read more

Music-color associations are mediated by emotion

Abstract   Experimental evidence demonstrates robust cross-modal matches between music and colors that are mediated by emotional associations. US and Mexican participants chose colors that were most/least consistent with 18 selections of classical orchestral music by Bach, Mozart, and Brahms. In both cultures, faster music in the major mode produced color choices that were more … Read more

Thomas Sheridan – Spectral Sounds: Hauntology and Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET_B5o8Mgko     Thomas Sheridan is an Irish author, artist, and researcher known for his work in the fields of psychology, sociology, and occultism. He has written extensively on topics such as psychopathy, social engineering, and the manipulation of human consciousness. While I cannot provide specific details about his work on “Spectral Sounds: Hauntology and … Read more

Soul Resonance and Music, montalk.net

“Soul Resonance and Music” is a concept discussed on montalk.net, a website that explores various topics related to metaphysics, consciousness, and spirituality. While I cannot access specific content from the website, I can offer insights into the general idea of soul resonance and its connection to music based on common themes in metaphysical literature: 1. … Read more

Experience Music As Medicine – Don Campbell, author Mozart Effect

Enjoy this short video of sound healing pioneer DON CAMPBELL. This excerpt is from EXPERIENCE MUSIC AS MEDICINE, Session 5 ‘Sound Healing Clinicians’. Don Campbell shares his story of discovery of the power of sound and music to enhance our lives from the inside out. He has been at the forefront of the movement to … Read more

Practice Does Not Make Perfect – No Causal Effect of Music Practice on Music Ability

Abstract The relative importance of nature and nurture for various forms of expertise has been intensely debated. Music proficiency is viewed as a general model for expertise, and associations between deliberate practice and music proficiency have been interpreted as supporting the prevailing idea that long-term deliberate practice inevitably results in increased music ability. Here, we … Read more

Alan Watt on the Music And Culture Creation Industry – The Beatles – Stars Are Made

Alan Watt from CuttingThroughTheMatrix.com talking about music and the culture creation industry. Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Theodore Adorno, sex drugs and rock n roll. ALAN WATT’s VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ar5TESkfMk Theodore Adorno He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, … Read more

Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness

Abstract Music has always been esteemed for its power to speak directly to our higher consciousness, a power founded in the purity of simple harmonic ratios. In this book, Alain Danielou traces the development of musical scales and tuning from their origins in both China and India, through their merging in ancient Greece, and on … Read more

Myth of Invariance – Origin of Gods, Math, Music from Veda to Plato

“The Myth of Invariance: Origin of Gods, Math, Music from Veda to Plato” is a concept that delves into the interconnectedness of mythology, mathematics, and music across different cultures and civilizations, from ancient Vedic traditions to the philosophy of Plato and beyond. Here’s an overview of some key aspects of this concept: 1. **Mythology and … Read more

Your Brain on Music

Your Brain on Music: A Story of Song Meets Science Daniel Levitin, Author, This Is Your Brain on Music In musical conversation with Alex de Grassi, Grammy Award-nominated Fingerstyle Guitarist Ever wonder what’s going on in your brain when you tune in to your favorite radio station or hum that song stuck in your head? … Read more

Alan Watt & Thomas Sheridan on the Music Industry & Culture Creation

The music industry is nothing like what is imagined (and pretended to) by the public. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS1BxV-lxUo     Alan Watt and Thomas Sheridan are both authors and speakers known for their perspectives on topics related to culture, media, and psychology. While they have addressed the music industry and the concept of “culture creation” in their … Read more

OERA LINDA book — Instructional Manual on How to Keep Freedom — Solari Report: The Codex Oera Linda Book with Jan Ott

in history, the winner tells a different tale than the truth   no one given or allowed power who has sold their own or taken another’s freedom no interracial marriage, no inter-tribal mating – no corruption of morals “what happens when you bring one person into the fold who doesn’t respect the integrity of the … Read more

Hildegard von Bingen – Voice of the Blood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS28jyW1bLY   Music in this video Learn more Listen ad-free with YouTube Premium Song O rubor sanguinis Artist Sequentia Licensed to YouTube by SME (on behalf of RCA Red Seal); Public Domain Compositions, and 3 Music Rights Societies Song Favus distillans Artist Sequentia Licensed to YouTube by SME (on behalf of RCA Red Seal); Public … Read more

Heavy Metal Music makes Killer Mice — Music, Mice & Mazes: David Merrell and His Famous Experiment – Shiller Institute

Abstract The three groups of mice were then run through a fixed maze over four weeks. As time progressed, the mice either got faster or slower. “But the interesting thing about the first year I did this project,” David said, “is that I actually had to cut it short, because the heavy metal music had … Read more

A million views on youtube earns $1,250 — Rick Beato: I Confronted the People That BLOCKED My Video (Rant)

Of Beato’s 750 youtube videos (original content): 250 are demonetized, the top/best 1/3rd of his videos. 465 copyright claims, 43 blocks (forced removals of his videos).   A million views of a youtube video earns $1,250