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Originally Posted by Glice

Ha. Funnily enough, I wrote my dissertation on music and moods. Well, it was a bit more sophisticated than that, but y'know. It's all to do with how music alludes to a Kantian sublime/ aesthetics, but is inclined towards the psychological edifices we create around it.

I'm finding, to my horror, that a lot of elevator/ light/ easy listening type stuff is actually really good. Herb Alpert. Someone out there must also love this man.

god damn interesting. before dropping out of my phd program, i had in mind this dissertation that linked musical pleasure with the linguistic centers of the brain that are responsible for the... "musical" aspect of language... very far-fetched, all i wanted to prove was that aesthetics has a physical reality and it's not some invention of the hegemonic capitalistic empire or whatever it is that post-stalinists postmodern want to argue to rob us of our delights.

anyway, for example, the relations of the system of musical notation and how the brain parses syllables in order to make sense of what it hears... and the effect of cadence in meaning, for example. no, it would require many beers and a proper bar to discuss this shit with any sort of cogency. this place is by far too inadequate to sustain such type of dialogue with any manner of intelletual honesty.