{"id":16342,"date":"2014-06-28T15:11:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T15:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/that-music-can-move-us-is-no-surprise-its-the\/"},"modified":"2014-06-28T15:11:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T15:11:19","slug":"that-music-can-move-us-is-no-surprise-its-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/that-music-can-move-us-is-no-surprise-its-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>That music can move us is no surprise; it\u2019s the point of the art form, after all. What\u2019s new here is the manner in which the researchers have quantified in fine-grained detail the cognitive ramifications of unpacked melodic compounds. This investigation of music\u2019s building blocks may be more relevant than you suppose. Nowadays, experts in the production room can hone a track\u2014the timbre, tone, rhythm, phrasing\u2014with digital precision. These songwriters and producers are the true geniuses behind the success of popular music today, and they seem to have an intuitive grasp of the phenomena underlying the findings of this psychology article. An extra breath-sound here, a pitch adjustment there\u2014these additives pepper the songs we hear on the radio. So the next time you hear a piece of music from the Billboard Top 40, it may be interesting to wonder, how many components were manipulated just so, in order to change the way I think?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/music-changes-the-way-you-think\/\">Daniel Yudkin and Yaacov Trope<\/a> at<em> Scientific American<\/em>.\u00a0Music Changes the Way You Think (via <a href=\"http:\/\/protoslacker.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">protoslacker<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That music can move us is no surprise; it\u2019s the point of the art form, after all. What\u2019s new here is the manner in which the researchers have quantified in fine-grained detail the cognitive ramifications of unpacked melodic compounds. This investigation of music\u2019s building blocks may be more relevant than you suppose. Nowadays, experts in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4fA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}