Sign inIf music be the food of love... many hearts beat as one: proven?
When you share listening to a favourite song with someone special or experience the communion of a concert with thousands of people, you get an idea of how unifying music can be. It is more than just a feeling; there is a proven physical effect, as psychology professor Wolfgang Tschacher explained, enlarging in an interview with our German sister publication Audio Infos on the purpose this synchrony serves.
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Concertgoers can now be sure that they have more in common with the rest of the audience than taste in music alone.
It has recently been scientifically proven that the hearts of people who listen to classical music together begin to beat at the same frequency. In fact, a whole series of synchronies take place quite incidentally and unnoticed by those involved when listening to music together.
[caption id="attachment_139635" align="alignright" width="267"] © Phil Drea Scientists measured the physical reactions of the audience at 14 classical concerts.[/caption]
This finding is the result of a multi-year research project called ECR - Experimental Concert Research, which was published in 2024 in the scientific journal Scientific...
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