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frisson
a sudden strong feeling of excitement or fear; a thrill
Frisson is an old word, but people are talking about it in a new(ish) context: musical frisson.
Researchers at The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital determined that “even the anticipation of pleasurable music induces dopamine release” resulting in a galvanic skin response (the chills). It's the same kind of thrill we get from food, drugs, and sex.
According to neuroscientist Dr. Robert Zatorre:
In other words, they want to figure out why our brains are rewarding us for something not (yet) demonstrably tied to survival.
Not everyone experiences musically-induced frisson, but studies suggest it’s more than half of us. There's even a Reddit group for people to share their most shiver-worthy recordings.
Have you felt musical frisson? When?
Is there a song or recording that gives you a charge?
I realize it’s three-and-a-half years after the fact...
Date: 22/02/2021 06:35 pm (UTC)https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7MZohtjtGD8
(Old-school Kung Fu flicks shamelessly snagged soundtrack material from whatever happened to be lying around; for example, a lot of Godzilla and spaghetti-Western music got repurposed in Shaw Brothers’ films. At the risk of more than you really cared to know about the subject:
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-63823.html)