Frisson

[Canard]

If you analyse magic, does it detract from or enhance its effect? For me, maybe it is the latter.

Frisson: Why music can give you chills or goosebumps - BBC Reel

Filmmaker Greg Dukes explores the phenomenon of frisson. It is best described as a sudden rush or wave of emotions that some people experience when listening to an emotive piece of music. Frisson is the French word meaning to 'shiver' or to have 'chills'. But in this case, we're not...

www.bbc.com

 

[Guildedagain]

Hopefully one day they can find better example than these two attempts probably written by a Chatbot.

Let me try.

The solo in Comfortably Numb has several potentially frisson inducing moments, probably depending on how much the music also means to you, beyond the aching in the notes, and how it represents your lost youth, long gone, the mistakes you made along the way, anything to keep frome thinking forward because you know what is ahead ultimately.

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Color me confused, magic or music?

And what does the analyses have to do with frisson?

 

[Canard]

Color me confused, magic or music?

And what does the analyses have to do with frisson?

The analysis looks at the magic/science of how music causes frisson in some people and how creative people, including musicians, tend to experience frisson (from music and other art forms) more than other people. It also asks the question if the ability to experience frisson has a cause-effect relationship, one way or the other, with creativity. Are people who experience it more disposed to creativity naturally or do people who have and use creativity acquire it through experience?

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

The analysis looks at the magic/science of how music causes frisson in some people and how creative people, including musicians, tend to experience frisson (from music and other art forms) more than other people. It also asks the question if the ability to experience frisson has a cause-effect, one way or the other, with creativity. Are people who experience it more disposed to creativity naturally or do people who have and use creativity acquire it through experience?

This is what happens when you're surfing at work and can't watch all the attachments!

 

[Canard]

This is what happens when you're surfing at work and can watch all the attachments!

It's worse than that. I am retired. I used to be just tired, but now I am retired.

 

[zulu]

Here we have the physics of "swing" explained:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/01/18/1139783203/what-makes-songs-swing-physicists-unravel-jazz-mystery

 

[adorshki]

It's worse than that. I am retired. I used to be just tired, but now I am retired.

HA!! I'm TRI-tired. I'm only allowed to ride a tricycle now.

 

[Rich Cohen]

Is experiencing a frisson like having an orgasm?

 

[Nuuska]

A feeble try from non-english boy . . .

About 40 years ago I went to see "The Wall" - movie w my then spouse - I was expecting to see a great "rock-movie" - or something . . .

For two days my spouse tried to ask me what I thought about that movie - I could not answer and it made her a bit mad - after all these years it is still somewhat mystery to me - every time I see it I'm crying - maybe some day I'll know.

Perhaps it is "The Weavers Answer" - who knows.

 

[Guildedagain]

went to see "The Wall" - movie w my then spouse

Same here, didn't go over well at all. When WWII war baby art meets the small town mind, not good.

 

[gjmalcyon]

The way my brain is wired there are a couple of pieces that repeatedly induce frisson in me:

1). The opening measures of Beethoven's Sixth - The Pastorale.

2). Certain passages in Rautavaara's Cantus Arcticus.

3). Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 - The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. That piece can reduce me to tears repeatedly in a listening session.

4). When Patrick Williams' "Mandeville" (from the Aurora album) gets to the shout chorus.

Interestingly, rock/pop music doesn't seem to have quite the same frisson-inducing effect. Except maybe the first few times I heard Stephen Stills' "Bluebird". Those big old growling Martin guitars, front and center in the mix and sounding huge. My reaction was "I. Want. That."

Are there pieces that induce frisson in a cross-section of people?

 

[Guildedagain]

Are there pieces that induce frisson in a cross-section of people?

National anthems.

 

[lungimsam]

I don’t think I have ever been scared by music, if that is what they mean by frisson.
But I do find some music intoxicating in that it makes me feel so emotional either in a happy or sad way and my level of interest in the song is off the charts. It feels so good like my brain is being massaged. Almost a physical sensation. Very relaxing and euphoric.

 

[Guildedagain]

I don’t think I have ever been scared by music,

Obviously never subjected to Hitchcock movies at too young an age...

 

[Guildedagain]

Bissonette Frissonette?



Why so fast guys?

Because you can.

 

[Ross]

I recently listened to Ann Mortifee's album "Kairos" after many years. One song is a lament titled "Gausaulaulau".
The song begins softly, then Mortifee really belts out the chorus. The first few chorus bars are chilling, but it gets repetative later.

 

[Guildedagain]

Woman's voice gives me frisson, more likely to, like Billie Halliday. Inner Freud says maybe it relates to fear of the mother?

Like the vocals in Gimme Shelter, so powerful I don't even need to post it here to induce a frisson, sometimes just the memory of it is enough.

This is an interesting clip, frisson inducing?

Living proof that the best days of music video were long before MTV.

 

[Guildedagain]

At the end, the orchestra going crazy did it.

 

[walrus]

At the end, the orchestra going crazy did it.

Only 4 years and 5 months after recording "Love Me Do". Simply astounding.

walrus