Should Music Be Used For Something?

Both The Asteroid # 4 and The Sounds of Kaleidoscope have been playing together for over a decade. I would recommend you to listen to instrumental music as in that case there is not threat that you will start listening to the lyrics. A commercial device called the Mosquito discourages young people from loitering; it emits sounds in the 17.5-to-18.5-kilohertz range, which, in general, only those under the age of twenty-five can hear.

Many consumers prefer to see only the positive side of pop: they cherish it as a culturally and spiritually liberating influence, somehow free of the rapacity of capitalism even as it overwhelms the marketplace. Explore the miniature world of rockpools or just watch the drama of garden birds fledge and grow up in your local park.

On the other hand, our study unveils a significant preference of listeners for long-range correlated fluctuations in music. When tracing the means for creating such richness of experience, one sees such a high degree of integrative intentionality in the music and the realized musician’s efforts that such can only be explained and understood in a philosophical framework.

Ideally the teaching of Biophilia should be in the hands of music teachers and science teachers. Many neuroscientific theories about how music acts on the brain—such as Steven Pinker’s notion that music is auditory cheesecake,” a biologically useless pleasure—ignore how personal tastes affect our processing of musical information.

If you can’t find one through your cardiologist or medical center, try the American Music Therapy Association (phone, 301-589-3300; e-mail, findMT@). As one might expect, because neutral music is already attenuated, the comparison was not significant, t = 1.22, p = 0.12 (d = 0.13) for neutral music.