
From the Vault: Musical Frisson
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Those Moments Are Always There, Like, Ooopn My Head
There are always a couple really strong examples. I think it's an interesting phenomenon that seems to involve both cognitive and emotional elements. Like its cognitive in that a sort of, sort knowledge and context matters. And like it it matters how much attention you're paying to the music. E like music that's on in the background is usually unlikely to cause frisson. It's specially when you're really listening actively that it happens, especially at higher volume. But the other thing is, it sometimes it gets the better of you. At least in my experience, i can get frison from songs that, a, that i don't want to be unkind, but that i might regard as
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