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I wager your talking more about BPM than the pitch of each note. Perhaps there's some argument that lower tuning naturally gives rise to lower BPM when composin
by nixpulvis 5y ago
I wager your talking more about BPM than the pitch of each note. Perhaps there's some argument that lower tuning naturally gives rise to lower BPM when composing a song, but I'm skeptical of that. If you take a song and transpose it or detune it a bit, you don't mess with the rhythem do you?
So if we ignore the tempo; What makes the flattening of a note "calming"?
If anything I might become a bit excited or agitated by the breaking of expectations. Though 8Hz is somewhat subtle.
I'd be curious what songs they used for testing, since I'm thinking that some songs are simply calmer than others at 432Hz for whatever reason. Or visa-versa.
I was expecting to read something about the temperment as well, since changing the tuning allows for different spacing between notes. This too can somewhat dramatically change the feel of each key.
- insickness 5y agoIt's not just the BPM. When music is pitched down, it loses some of it's shrillness. The lack of higher pitches can have a calming effect because that's where the ears get most fatigued and feel the most "pain" from listening. There's a whole genre of music called Slowed and Reverbed that slows all kinds of music down. Here's an example of a slowed song and a it's original: Cigarettes After Sex - Slowed https://youtu.be/GGfWuK-fZYM https://youtu.be/GGfWuK-fZYM Cigarettes After Sex - Original https://youtu.be/sElE_BfQ67s https://youtu.be/sElE_BfQ67s