Musical Moments: Animals Reacting to Music

[buttercup]

I was going to put this on another thread, but since there are so many cool, amazing clips of animals listening to music, I figured it deserved a thread of its own. Different animals seem to enjoy different types of music, maybe it has to do with the frequency, I don't know. In any event, I think music is a universal language.

 

[buttercup]

I love this one. Look at how soulfully he's singing.

 

[DukeU]

 

[toobfreak]

Different animals seem to enjoy different types of music, maybe it has to do with the frequency, I don't know.

Yeah, there is a lot of conjecture on that. Harmonic content, structure, compositional integrity.

The Hindus have identified various musical tones as correlating to the sympathetic chakras of energy nodes along the spine.

I have a tuning fork tuned to the sound of the origin of the universe (OM).

 

[buttercup]

That put a smile on my face, thanks! The "What is love?" one with the head moves towards the end was the funniest

Speaking of birds.....

 

[buttercup]

Yeah, there is a lot of conjecture on that. Harmonic content, structure, compositional integrity.

The Hindus have identified various musical tones as correlating to the sympathetic chakras of energy nodes along the spine.

I have a tuning fork tuned to the sound of the origin of the universe (OM).

Very interesting. I don't understand it, but there's definitely something to it... Music is like an actual language. It's hard to explain.

 

[buttercup]

 

[toobfreak]

The Hindus have identified various musical tones as correlating to the sympathetic chakras of energy nodes along the spine.

Let me put this more simply: when these animals (birds, etc) hear various music-- certain tones, rhythms, patterns etc., it probably stimulates pleasure centers in their brains much like certain songs just tend to "send" you and invoke certain memories.

In other words, your pets are getting high off music.

So of course they are drawn to it.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Very interesting. I don't understand it, but there's definitely something to it... Music is like an actual language. It's hard to explain.

Music to me is like an additional emotion, good music that is, music that is timeless.

It's "experienced" as much as it is "heard".

 

[toobfreak]

Very interesting. I don't understand it, but there's definitely something to it... Music is like an actual language. It's hard to explain.

That is it. Music is a language.

If you could watch a brain scan, the brain organizes itself across the corpus collosum better listening to music.

When you go to a concert and everyone is rocking and jumping to the music, it is because the music is sending out a message to the listeners that they all hear and understand on a visceral, organic level even if they cannot relate that message verbally to a spoken thought.

Just as our brains have receptor cites to certain key chemical molecules, our auditory pathways have receptivity to certain sounds, organized, harmonic sounds. Musicians sense those subliminal messages and organize them into subliminal messages in their music to say things subliminally.

Sometimes even the musician himself is hard pressed to put into words what he says with his music, just that he knows he said it.

 

[Alan Stallion]

When I sing to my cat, he give me a quizzical look and is probably thinking:
"Dude... why?"

Everyone's a critic, I tells ya. Especially cats.