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Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’: Scientists identify bits in songs that make you cry Researchers have long known that certain features of music are consistently able to elicit strong emotional responses from listeners. The British psychologist John Sloboda identified some of these in a simple experiment conducted 20 years ago. He got music lovers to point out parts of songs which reliably gave them goose bumps or brought tears to their eyes. Twenty tear-jerking passages were identified, and when Dr Sloboda analysed them he found 18 contained a musical device called an appoggiatura, a note which clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonance.

Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’: Scientists identify bits in songs that make you cry

Researchers have long known that certain features of music are consistently able to elicit strong emotional responses from listeners.

The British psychologist John Sloboda identified some of these in a simple experiment conducted 20 years ago. He got music lovers to point out parts of songs which reliably gave them goose bumps or brought tears to their eyes.

Twenty tear-jerking passages were identified, and when Dr Sloboda analysed them he found 18 contained a musical device called an appoggiatura, a note which clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonance.

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“Of all the ideas proffered for the decline of the record business I’d have to say it’s people like me and some of the music we’ve produced that are most to blame. If early commercial recordings were about capturing performances, and everything after The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper was about a combination of performance and production illusion, somewhere along the way we settled for illusion alone. I understand the seduction of illusion and magic, the whole wizard of Oz thing, playing the role of the mastermind behind the curtain pulling music out of thin air. It’s god-like and very tempting to the soul. But the Oz-like producer immersed in Pro Tools led to the thinly-worn joke of the producer saying to the singer/artist: “Let me swab your cheek for DNA and I’ll have your record ready for you in two months.” Funny, but not funny. As it turns out, what people really like is recordings of performances and not evidence of how industrious and intricately clever producers are.”
Charlie Peacock, producer of The Civil Wars’ Poison & Wine

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via Jay Braun on fb

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Dhani Harrison (son of George), George Martin and Giles Martin (son of George) fiddle around with the mix of “Here Comes The Sun” when they discover George Harrison’s guitar solo, which was left off of the record and which nobody recalls hearing before. 

More Beatles stuff

Oh. My. God.

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AniMoog’s iPad app in use as we ramp up the launch of The License Lab.

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