Some music causes a reaction on a purely visceral level.
(60-100 beats per minute/bpm will cause you to involuntarily tap your foot, dance, et cetera)
Some Led Zeppelin tunes will flat out cause me to receive a citation for exceeding the speed limit.
Other music moves us in a polar opposite direction.
Intellectually you identify with - lyrics, melody what ever the particular hook happens to be.
Joni Mitchell's lyrics or John McLaughlin's digital(fingers, not media) - [rolling my eyes] prowess.
The above two examples also blur the lines - Mitchell's voice thrills me viscerally and her lyrics stimulate me intellectually.
People that can do both - genius.
What I also find interesting is that we do not all fall under the same spell.
For some it is the Bass line that turns them on.
While for others, it's the upper registers; when the violins play, they get chills.
(interesting aside - there are certain intervals (the space between two notes) that cause their own reactions. Minor lines can make us cry while blatantly Major pieces mixed with percussion get labeled as 'rousing.')
Is this Evolution trying new 'instincts?'
Why would woodworking bring the same thrill that playing a piece perfectly brings?
And to further confuse the issue, the stimulation is 100% sex.
It is the same pleasure derived from procreation - which is why I tend to see it as Evolution taking new survival predispositions out for a spin.
Do you appreciate both?
One?
The other?
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