Seinfeld Clip - Jerry And The Mendelbaums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJ-hM2gF9U
“Yonge, dumb, Yonge Dumb Poor ooh oooh.
Yonge dumb poor highschool kid.”
“What do you listen to at work?”
Mostly whining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32az2CLr6bo
I also found this musician, Ayron Jones ( <LINK_TEXT text=“https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9BitW … 2srMOSJjZQ”>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9BitWNKe2j3D2srMOSJjZQ</LINK_TEXT> ) . Very talented, with a strong hard rock sound. I’ve started hearing “Mercy” on local radio because he will be one of the guests at a festival concert they’re holding in September.
(I don’t know if this belongs in Watercooler, but it’s about music so I’ll post here.)
Does anyone understand, “Music tuned to,” a specific frequency? I found some hippy dippy spiritual healing topics discussing the benefits of Music Tuned To 432 Hz. It appears prevalent enough to be more than one guy’s silly idea. To my understanding, a frequency is a tone, a note, not a framework to present all musical sounds.
Here’s a gist of it,
Music tuned to 432 Hz is softer and brighter, and is said to provide greater clarity and is easier on the ears. Meditation music tuned to 432 Hz is relaxing for the body and mind and also more harmonic and pleasant than 440 Hz which is the frequency that most of the modern day music we listen to is tuned at. Some theorists believe that 440 Hz was designed to stimulate fear, sickness, oppression. This imposed frequency was introduced as the standard frequency in 1940 in the US.
That’s some bold claims. I can imagine some softer, brighter thrash metal or hardcore electronica.
I’ve seen music before called things like, Anti-Cancer Frequency, Healing Frequency, Meditation Frequency, etc. I can grasp the meditation aspect, but alternative healing is particularly unscientific. Also, if I am listening to such music on pathetic office speakers or similar, am I doing it wrong or still getting these alleged benefits? If I’m supposed to listen to music like this for 21 days and see how it impacts me, what about listening to music on the radio while driving, even if I’m listening to “healing” music at other times? This is a confusing topic, and some therapists’ blog spewing the benefits of it does not exactly convince me. This sounds like something a crazy aunt brings up at thanksgiving and everyone eyerolls in response.
Edit: If I’m listening to my buddy play guitar or another live performance, how does that count? Is it a technical aspect of how the music is produced or of the media it is distributed on, or how it’s played back, or what? See, questions multiply.
I could benefit from less negativity in my life, as I’m sure we all could. Is this effective in any way?
In traditional western music, the A above middle C is tuned to 440 Hz. I think what they are describing is instead of A being 440, it is tuned to 432 Hz. So you still have the entire musical scale, but the base tuning is lowered slightly.
Yeah, this is mostly correct. Officially musical instruments are tuned to A=440 hz. There are also different ways of tuning scales/intervals (just, equal temperament, pythagorean, mean…)
Although most orchestras actually tune to 442, presumably because on a string instrument you can bend a note up, but not down.
That bunk about 440 being oppressive is nonsense. If you don’t like the sound in one key, just play it in a lower key. The difference between A and Ab (415.3) is greater than the difference between 440 and 432.
There’s a lot of psuedoscience around music in general (as a musician and an engineer, it’s hard to believe what some people believe about music).
But, but, I read it on the Internet! I know people that have done anything they can possibly do to heal from deadly illness, in addition to and not instead of traditional medicine. The observation that they kicked the illness is in itself inconclusive. The broad trend of unsourced information leads to abundance and propagation of these pseudo sciences. The Wikipedia page of pseudo sciences is long. It sounds about as legit as Rumpology.
Placebo effect is a thing though. I don’t believe in the typical pseudoscience claims but I do think the mind/body connection can cause effects in small ways. Just like stress can cause health issues, certain chemicals produced by the body can have good or bad effects.
What do I listen to at work… Once in awhile a very loud voice on the phone, while the other person is on speaker, which is turned up btw, finally mentioned it to HR, close the door, we don’t need to hear your stories…