Why do we Feel Music?
Music is just as much a tactile experience as it is an auditory one. In concerts’ and other environments where loud music is present, or with certain speakers, we can feel the music throughout our bodies. We can feel deep noises like low rumbles or beats particularly well. In a way, it’s like we are experiencing and becoming one with the music itself, but what makes this happen?
Music is a wave. The energy of sound travels through air and solid matter by bumping into particles like a ripple. Music can also travel through our bodies. In this way, we can feel music. There are other explanations for why we can feel the music, too. Research shows that our heartbeats can adjust to match the beat of the song we are listening to. Even if the music is not particularly loud, you can still feel it. You can also feel excited about music, which can change the pace your heart is beating as well.
Feeling music has many advantages. On top of helping us regulate our heartbeat, it can help us with coordination and dancing as another one of our senses will be incorporated into the musical experience.
Music has the capacity to stimulate us and our senses in multiple ways. From intellectual, to emotionally and everything in between music truly is a jack of all trades when it comes to its impacts on humans. Music is more than sound; it is a testament to humanity and our accomplishments as a species. It highlights our happiness, successes, experiences, and downfalls. Allowing us to connect to our fellow man in the realization that no matter who we are, we all face similar circumstances and that no one is excluded. Even if time and space separate us, we can connect to others, through a similar feeling and it is in feeling that brings us closer together.