Why Does Music Move Us?
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Why does music give us all the feels?
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Why does music make us feel happy or sad? Or angry or romantic? How can simple sound waves cause so much emotion? I went from my comfy chair to the streets of Austin to investigate how it might be written into our neuroscience and evolution. Modern neuroscience says our brains may be wired to pick certain emotions out of music because they remind us of how people move!
Humans are the only species we know that creates and communicate using music, but it's still unclear how or why we do that, brain-wise. Is it just a lucky side effect of evolution, like Steven Pinker says? Or is it a deeper part of our evolutionary history, as people like Mark Changizi and Daniel Levitin argue?
New evolutionary science says that we may read emotion in music because it relates to how we sense emotion in people's movements. We'll take a trip from Austin to Dartmouth to Cambodia to hear why music makes us feel so many feels. The connections between movement and music go far beyond dance moves!
Mike over at Idea Channel has a different opinion, head on over and check it out: • Is Sad Music Actually ...
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Special thanks to Dartmouth's Thalia Wheatley and Beau Sievers, who did the research. You can read more about it here:
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You've never been overcome with emotion while listening to a jackhammer? Try living beside a construction site... Anger is an emotion, isn't it?
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GeneticFreak GRD I can't stop laughing
GeneticFreak GRD lol good point, but I think he meant a happy emotion
This is actually a wise comment.
Not only does music effect us, it also effects animals. My parrot loves swing jazz, Count Basie in particular.
D.E.B. B I heard that scientists say that parrots and humans are the ONLY animals that dance to music and that parrots will dance different to different music. What species of parrot? I have 4 budgerigars. They are tame.
My parakeet loves music as well!
@@rainthebudgie4313 only animals so far*
yeah that makes sense.
humans are animals too.
My parakeets dance to music!!!
My old zebra finches didn’t.
(My old zebra finches died 😭now I have parakeets :) btw my picture is a zebra finch)
I’d probably be soulless in a world without music
Perhaps soul and music is the same thing...?
Hate to break it to you, but we‘re all soulless in this world as well
@@sergius8495 How so? I know i have a soul
@@pradabears Of course you do… There‘s no such thing, at least not scientifically proven to exist. Just because you want it to exist, doesn‘t mean it actually exists.
@@sergius8495 Sometimes I forget that people like you exist, then I see a comment like this and I let out a little chuckle. I hope you are living a happy life, I find you very interesting
Oh my gosh I don't think I could even live without a world that didn't have music!!!!!! GASP!
I couldn't either. It makes life more enjoyable.
Ikr, just imagine any boss fight without music.. would be so boring
And sans fight would truly be a bad time because you won't be pumped up by Megalovania
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Lol he's to tall
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Liam Canale great. Now I can't unsee it
I.... understand...
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Others may have sports, books, movies, but for me, it's always been music. Songs, song writing, playing instruments and writing songs. Always, and always will be. Anyone else feel the same?
Heck yeah. I actually only recently got into music but now that I've found it I know for sure it's my thing :)
STINKYPETE500X yeah music is cool
STINKYPETE500X music is life
STINKYPETE500X I know your gana kill me but trap music is reallllllllllyyyy gooooooo9oooood
STINKYPETE500X I know this is late....but saammmeee
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
I love music, i think i have a problem. I hear music in my head all the time
Everyone has something going on up there
No. not a problem, a gift. Jimi Hendrix is credited with saying music can actually in the future cure disease et al. Note: this was long before sonograms which can see human organs because each is responsive to certain sonic wavelength had been invented. Music can influence mood, mood can influence healing, a cats purr has been found to resonate at a frequency that aids healing and we are just beginning to explore what music can do. Myself I have a T-shirt that says "Music is my religion, and Dance is how I worship." Count yourself lucky. I do, same thing here Audrey.
***** You're one of the 5 people in the world that hates music, congrats.
***** You really don't listen to any genre of music at all?
***** I wouldn't trust someone like you....
This video made me wondering something. If it's confirmed that there is a relationship between music and movement, could it be because we use our ears? Before you judge, think about it. We use our ears not only for listening to noises. We have the inner ear which is basically our balancing system. Could that be somehow related?
That’s a great idea! Try to organize it better and turn it into a hypothesis and test it, or see if someone else already has!
yes check out Dr. Erich Jarvis - he has studied the close neuron connection between the motor neurons and the auditory neurons. It's found in birds also. So the music is tied to motion synchronization - that's why birds can also dance - if they're song birds.
I don't think there is a general correlation between movement and music. While rhythmic music can sure do this I can sit as well listening to Hans Zimmer or Lara Somogyi (just two examples) without moving a muscle. This video here is extremely superficial.
Any animator who has tried to animate a character dancing to a music knows this. Music feels dynamic based on the gap between sounds. The same way an animation feels dynamic based on the time between poses. I had noticed this similarity when I was learning animation.
I love music, nothing improves my mood better than a good tune
I always thought it had to do with consistency, beat, and volume. Like your choice of music would derive from your mood and your brain linking connections that will a tune to the music you listen to. Nice to see a video give a quick and simple explanation.
I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT HE LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT SHE LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT, WE LIKE TO..... MOVE IT!!!!!!
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Physically fit physically fit physically physically physically fit.
MOVE IT!!
I become overwhelmed with emotion while listening to a jackhammer, are you crazy? Most of those emotions consist of irritation and annoyance
Huh? Jackhammers don't trigger emotions? I'm punching the shit out of my pillow when I can't sleep because of them. So please...
I think that music, books and science are three of the most important things in my life. #nerd
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SAME FREAKING HERE #NERD
Ha nerd
Same for me, just add God.
For me as well :)
I thought I'd finally find an answer to this question I've always had, but I dont think there was an answer here. But it was informative.
I was just asking my better half why music made me feel the way it made me feel because she is a Psychology major but I still did not get a definitive answer from her nor this video so it's still a mystery I guess LOL
Yeah I also have a question that is much more specific. Like why does certain music resonate better with certain individuals? Why do I enjoy some type of music that my friends don't find attractive at all?
I think that music can be and was used as a cathartic, emotionally healing, and aiding experience that benefitted us evolutionarily, no matter how small the difference may be. Music helps us look at the world in a new view and maybe even helped some ancient peoples survive by giving them a new way to see life-threatening/changing problems. The ability to feel music may have started as a side effect, but overall, it aided mankind.
I may be in deep sleep but I think even at that time the music in my mind keeps playing
At any point of my life, music is the most special thing to me in my life. Even if it is at the point of death. I may become a GREAT physicist one day but at the the end of the day, music is the one thing by which I will feel that I have done something amazing and I deserve the music for that
And when the pop music plays, in whichever situation I am in, maybe full with my stomach, or even stomach craving I will get on the floor AND dance till the party ends....LOVE MUSIC AND YOU AS WELL JOE
"Don't worry we'll only be here for a minute"
*I check how long the video is*
That's me xD
I saw the length before that
Dubstep Pho The duality of nature
OMG, I love that you used Opera Babes' rendition of Flower duet, you win forever. And can you please next explain the evolutionary advantage of there being introverted people. THANKS
I'll look into that introverted thing. But there isn't necessarily an evolutionary advantage to everything that humans do, even if they do it frequently and do it successfully. Some things just . . . are.
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TED Talks had a thing on the benefit of introverts; you might go look that up. I found it insightful.
Music is one of the things that I relied heavily on to get me through my withdrawals. I'd have weeks where I couldn't sleep basically at all . Laying on the bathroom floor in the dark all night. Getting maybe 1-2 hours total each night in little 5-15 minute bursts. I'd lay there in the dark blasting music in my earbuds. It helped distract me
Nice video, but you did not actually answer the question - you just stated why the question exists, which is not why i searched for this topic.
Sturla Snik yes agreed
So i assume your trying to find a SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION, yes?
The explanation as explained in the video is trying to explain it in a different meaning the kind that the types of you people wont ever understand
He never does, lol. What did you expect?
he actually did by implying that human movement and emotion are linked visually in human body language, and as such may link directly to emotion in the same way watching someone happy may make you happy. At least that's what I understood from it.
@@RPGgrenade that's exactly what I understood too.
You mentioned in another video that humans are good at picking out patterns. Could this is also be a reason why happy music is happy? Because like you said we see patterns not there, as we have evolved to always try to pick a pattern out. So maybe hearing a pattern or a beat we tend to think of it as or relate it to an emotion, even though the beat is just sound waves.
Personally I was born in music lovers environment i got addicted to it and it help me alot foucs on my art & painting and boosts my imagination to do better i listen to it & do my art painting when iam on my bestest mental , emothional ....etc condition .lovely clip thanks for lovely speech ☺☺
64 y.o.male here. No secret. I cry almost daily listening to certain songs. I hear a certain way a melody is played or a supreme vocalist, I often give way to tears. Whitney Houston "I will always love you" for example, at the refrain when she takes it up an octave and sings... And I will always love you, I shed happy tears her voice is so sublime. Or certain instrumental melodies. It happens quite a bit with me. But then again, I play guitar and probably appreciate music a little more differently than the average person. Not in any way being boastful.
When you showed that clip of the beatles I screamed like one of those crazed fan girls. SO MANY FEELINGS!!!
Alice Wynter I INOW RIGHT IVE GOT A LOVE FOR THE BEATLES IN MY FRIKING GENES MY GRANDPA LOVED IT WHEN IT FIRST CANE OUT MY DAD WAS RAISED ON IT IVE BEEN RAISED ON IT ITS SO AMAZING
I looked for "Why do we enjoy dance"
And your last few sentences pretty much answered my question
Dance is music and movement brought together in harmony
I thought I was the only one that walked at the beat of the music.
MrFlippy Music no your not 😂🙋🏼♀️
I DO THAT ALL THE TIME
1:42 is the greatest video i hvae ever seen
1:42 Awww
Oh god, the flower duet... you kill me. I have goosebumps, and I can't pay attention. Well played, sir.
I've cried because of music, so i definitely think it has power
This concept is so much in consonance with how classical Indian music and one of its most important parts Ragas were developed. As Wikipedia explains it - "Each raag is an array of melodic structures with musical motifs, considered in the Indian tradition to have the ability to "colour the mind" and affect the emotions of the audience."
I took an acting class where we had to come up with a short mime sketch and bring in some wordless music to go with it. The best moment was when the teacher asked the student who had performed as a kid on a swing set to change music with someone who played a guy robbing a house. The movement took on a new meaning when given different music.
Awesome. I'll keep that in mind, thanks.
And not only movement...but vocal sounds are important too. Sad music is typically slow, and elongated just as a sad person may talk. Our voices have particular tones and cadences and a significant amount of meaning realies on the way we say things. All of this (movement and speech) his makes music completely universal...think about it. We can tell just by the sound of anyones voice and how they physically present themselves, understanding what the say or not, just by their tone.
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Humans and many animals show similar patterns of emotive tones. Higher pitched noises with excitement, forceful high pitch fear-related excitement; low pitch sad or pensive, and with force, anger; middle-of-the-road tones being likewise for emotion. The combination of tones seems to mean to us something new: high, again, excited so perhaps interested, but high to low perhaps interested but unknown and thought-provoking, etc. I'd actually like to study this more, so thank you for the great video!
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I’ve always found this topic fascinating. I can’t relate to or understand how music elicits emotional responses from people. I hear about it from people all the time about how certain music gets them pumped up, or makes them happy, etc., but I have never experienced that myself and figured this was some sort of analogy I wasn’t privy to. I rarely, if ever, listen to music. Even during long drives if I’m by myself but, I’m astutely aware of this phenomenon and if I’m with someone else in the car, I’ll ask what music they like and put that on for them. Seeing an entire video dedicated to the science of why music makes us feel certain emotions makes me feel like I’m certainly missing something in life that others are able to experience. Albeit I am generally emotionally stoic in life so perhaps, this is just an extension of which.
Find a biofeedback clinic somewhere near you and get yourself an EEG and a consultation. You might get to feel the music yet :)
I like to picture things in my head as I listen to music, the imagery is never as beautiful when I'm not listening to anything. Some food for thought I find interesting!
thats why we find music in movies and commercials. Try watching a horror movie without music, you wont even break a sweat of fear.. I wonder what the music be like in 100 years..?
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tone/tempo of voice convey emotion across languages, you can listen to foreign films in languages you don't know without watching and still tell what characters feel very well from tone/tempo of voice. That suggests music predates language, that language is composed of music designed to code for abstract information. I'm Bill Wesley and have a TEDx video called "The Geometry of Music" you might want to check out
I love the sound of marching, I could listen to it all day!
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Interesting... It's not a channel, it's a blog. No videos, just a bunch of extremely lengthy blocks of text, but it's one of my favorite sites on the Internet right now. Anyway, I take the names to mean pretty much the same thing, so I find your polarizing interpretation intriguing!
Inspiring, thank you.
4:48 I paused. I'm crying. You can't just say that. I don't wanna be reminded. *sob*
I came back to this video after goin to a madeon concert a little back I really wish I knew why I'm here I guess I wanted the answer I already have to why music just gets me goin it's nice to get these words out
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This is. Insane.
I knew there is gotta be something unexplainably magical about music
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The song is from the opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes. It´s called ´Sous le dôme épais´, aka ´The flower duet´.
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Music is my life i can't leave without it....I don't know what I would do with music in my life
Music takes up physical space. The point of it is to recreate a story where you are transported into the shoes of the protagonist. In tear jerking Adelle songs she uses dissonant notes to create a sort of unease followed by soothing harmony then back again the same way scary movies put you on edge and then release you then put you on edge again to creat a strong overwhelming feeling. This type of "discomfort" manipulation causes people to register the song as a personal loss because your body is physically reacting to the discomfort... Maybe this is why we love violins in songs, the violin has a similar sound to nails on a black board but more controlled and the constant changing of notes makes the discomfort tolerable and even enjoyable.
Same goes for songs with a lot of procussive instruments. The steady banging of drums creates booms that we can physically feel as soft blasts in a predicable way. We are sensitive to the booms the same way we are sensitive to blasts of air hitting our skin. Many afro cultures have strong drum beats which I think effects the type of dancing that is often paired with afro inspired music. For example twerking, you can twerk to pretty much anything but it is easier to do it to drums (not rock drums) and heavy beats because in order to twerk you have to basically move the part of your body that is your support structure and your center of gravity which is your hips and thighs. The drums, just like our lower abdomen is a strong base so we react with strong movements.
Every instrument's sound takes up space and when a dancer feels the music their bodies are pantomiming around the physical space taken up by the noises....kind of like unconscious full body sign language used to describe the story the sounds are painting. Different genres force the sounds to take new meaning by changing note ranges, use of accompanying instruments and other techniques.
I think that scientists should study how choreographers and dancers choose what movements to use for certain songs or study if and why people can understand the story behind a song that is in a language that they do not understand.
Love this, fantastic 👏
I do it too! I'm not the only one!
Really man, you are amazing.
The reason why we love music so much is simple. We are music.
another interesting video, dr. joe.
WOW...I never knew there was such a thing. And now that I'm self-aware, I NOW feel like sneezing when I do that. :( Thanks a lot... (note: not blaming you XP)
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Music is likely an incidental-stimulus adaptation.
Our bodies are keyed into rhythms and patterns and combine hearing them in birds, rivers, etc. and perceiving them alongside our need to mimic and experiment and create into our surroundings, it would suggest we'd develop the ability to generate it.
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Looks like Ray Manzarek circa 1967 in the shades.
Groovy.
What is that song in the beginning?! It has been stuck in my head for two weeks now
Tonality might be a basic framework to help determine emotions in music. However, determining emotions in music is more complicated than just tonality, especially in the modern age.
Music is beyond dancing and rhythm.
i think it has to do with how we empathize with people to help us form a better society and species we can sense feel with how people talk which is similar to how music is we speed up and talk high when we are excite like music and tend to talk more soft and lower when we are sad like music same with our movement we jump up into the air when we are excited but slouch and shrug when we are said
Nice video. ❤
More research needed.
Perhaps it's just the tempo and the best that holds this entanglement with movement and not the intricacies of music itself?
same thing with a vision - we can understand art, thanks to evolution of that light-sensitive cells of ours. and btw, you were so good looking in this video, explain this please.
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So happy I finally found some corroborating evidence for my research in emotional robots! "Towards expressive musical robots: a cross-modal framework for emotional gesture, voice and music" :D
I get so much pleasure from music that I cant express it. It is completely the subconscious
i like how you say "simple vibrations"... matter has that many froms because of its vibrations... we're vibrations in harmony, maybe it's because of that...
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watch this from Cambodia :- )
Because it links our mind to our hearts.
Nice shirt!
Nice video.
Great video :-)
Much appreciated. ;)
What’s the song playing in the background in the beginning.
I truly love Music with a passion, I think it's the universal language of the soul.
Songs can be upbeat despite having depressing lyrics but sure let's go with that
He said Idea Channel and I subcribed. :)
cool video! I would prefer if the subtitles say the same as he's saying :D
That sound in the ident is the same as in the Professional Squash Associations content…! What what virtual instrument library is being used??
If you look up "photic sneeze reflex" on wikipedia there's a good amount of info about it there. :)
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