morning people,
i told it in a few threads already, i started studying psychology in innsbruck and despite a lot of my fellow students, i have a determined target to focus my studies on.
that would be acoustic psychology.
you hear a song or a voice... you like it, you dislike it... certainly you feel emotions that are triggered by diverse stimuli...
what are these stimuli?
are they learned? how high is the amount of the learned content?
well, thats where i would like to go. but im a noob at this, itll need me a few years to actually begin working on these questions. first, i must collect ideas how to answer these questions scientifically... thats the tricky part.
it starts with a few theories.
one would be: there are discrete elements in auditive stimuli (like a song) that trigger single or multiple emotions.
these could be chords, rhythms, harmonies, certain intervals, sound levels, instruments, lyrics... and so forth
and so, i wanna ask you to tell me if there are songs you know (or voices), where you can single out a moment, that gives you an emotion.
ill give an example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8aqs3_Tkk8
from the new rammstein album, you should give it a listen.
the moment is in the chorus, the first one would be around 1:09 ("Ich sperr' sie ein...") (two bars). that one is like an introduction
then at 1:12 ("... in meiner Phantasie"). these two bars give me the shivers...
it's the harmony chords from the piano you hear in the background.
also, it's the pitch of the piano.
a minor element is the lyrics, they mean like "i imprison her in my fantasy"...
i have goosebumps at the very moment...
it amazes me, that music (or voices, even undefined noises) can have such an effect.
i would love to hear comments and examples you experienced
