Is this a joe rogan thing or some shit? it's fucking everywhere somehow for me right now. I've listened to a couple and it seems like good music to meditate to (if you use music that is) or to sleep too but lol some of these are like borderline "cure cancer" listening to this 3 hour long thing. It reminds me of music you'd hear at a planetarium or some science/nature exhibit. I know youtube is super click baity and shit I'm mainly just wondering where and how this came about. Example https://youtu.be/mv--C0cQpd4

  • scraeming [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's all an outgrowth of the whole A=432Hz thing, which is basically conspiracy numerology for music. The idea is that there's a base frequency of the planet/universe/whatever that is at around 8Hz, so something something, arbitrary math in abstract space founded on no material reality, bada bing bada boom, 432Hz tuning heals the soul and purges bad energies from the body. The reason why people generally seem to think it works is because the music feels "warmer" or they feel a sense of "relaxation", which likely comes from downtuning from A=440Hz, which is western canon standard tuning. Downtuning a piece of music will lower pitch, and lower pitches are generally associated with release, warmth, softness, etc. in western music. Same thing can be done with uptuning, where doing it strongly enough (like from 440Hz to 852Hz) may bring feelings of sharpness, spaciousness, glassiness, or a "crystalline" clarity.

    It's basically people applying the new-age hokum mentality to music, but the idea is not based in any kind of scientific or musicological theory. It just gives people good vibes if that's what they're looking for; whether they assign deeper spiritual or cosmic meaning to that is up to them.

    Fun video on A=432Hz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKTZ151yLnk

    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      lol right? i've genuinely given it an honest shot and it just seems like what was called just ambient music

  • flo_rish [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    if you like that, maybe you 'd rather listen to actual ambient music, here's something thats pretty fresh out of the underground https://youtu.be/kVrPNGjHCw0

    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      good looking out, yeah i use to listen to a lot of ambient music back in the day. thx

  • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    if you wanna heal yourself right just get electroconvulsive therapy (shock therapy) like the rest of us dead inside people.

    • ShinTotality [none/use name]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      The Communist version of this is transcranial Direct Current stimulation... experimenting with it fixed my social skills, but I can no longer do math

  • Galli [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    these videos are 9 hours long and the youtube algorithm is designed to maximize watch time.