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The Science of Scary Music

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Scream Like Music Is a Way to Make Scream Sounds More Tolerable

Music can simulate the nero biological response we have to the sound of a scream, but without being as grating as actual scream sounds would be. So if you're watching a horror movie and you are just confronted with constant screaming sound effects, i think that would be kind of, that would be grating to the point that you would not want to continue watching the movie. Maybe music is is a sort of best of both worlds compromise,. That makes perfect sense. It's like that episode of the simpsons where a, there is a lieutenant, l t Smash, and he's making everyone join the navy with the pop song, even et niage re. Do you emember this

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