1 of 4) FOR THE BLOG: Find articles and information on sound and psychology and/or emotions and post your findings.
2 of 4)HOMEWORK EXERCISE: Using the information that Zach posted in the previous blog as well as the sound psychology blog as inspiration to create audio that has a mind altering effect (hunger, sleepiness, someone in class mentioned horniness), and maybe even try to improve on the so called "addictive" sounds Zach put in the drop off. Try to find a way to present this with a visual component as well.
3 of 4) REMINDER: For the delivery of all your exercises and projects for the end of the quarter you will need to prepare the following:A course portfolio in 11” x 17” format, any visual elements to your work should go here; audio color wheel, any charts or graphs you create, artwork for CD packaging, game box covers, etc. For Game Artists: Include your game document here, but lay it out in 11 x 17 for portfolio. For IMD: include a graphic representation of your ambient audio environment. For Animation: Include storyboards. You do not need to buy a plastic portfolio for this, just bring me the 11 x 17 COLOR prints paper-clipped together. No staples.
4 of 4) KEN NEEDS TO GIVE US IMAGES TO GO WITH YOUR LATEST MUSICAL COLLABORATION.
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I didn't find exactly what I was lookin' for, so I settled for this: Music & Emotions. As you can see, it's more about the effects of music on our emotions than it is about sound in general, but I guess it's close enough since the rest of the stuff I found was even farther from this. xP Anyway, here's what I kinda gathered from it.
As we could have assumed, there are healing qualities to music. That's why some kids lock themselves in their rooms and blast their music when they're pissed or sad about something that happened at school or with their parents. It's as if they naturally knew that listening to music would make them feel better--kind of like how we all naturally know that eating something will satisfy hunger.
Anyway, the article states that therapists have been advocating the use of music for the reduction of anxiety, stress, and pain, and recommended as an aid for positive change in mood and emotional states. What's more, Doctors believe that listening to music not only makes recovering patients in hospitals and nursing homes feel better, but also makes them heal faster. For example, one study showed that victims of stroke, cerebral palsy, and Parkinson's disease who worked with music took greater and more balanced strides than those who weren't walking to any music.
Music can also help to alleviate apprehension. They tested on dental patients, exposing them to variations of acoustic therapy via headphones. It turns out that "the negative feelings decreased five-fold for patients who received 30 minutes of acoustic therapy both before and after their dental procedure, and the fearful feelings reduced by only a factor of 1.6 for the group that heard and felt music only prior to the operation." Those who heard music only during the operation did not have any degree of change in fear at all.
The article says that nobody knows for sure just yet "how music succeed in prompting emotions within us and why these emotions are often so powerful." We know what emotional responses can be
created by certain music, but we can't explain them yet.
I guess you didn't tell us to post our "emotion sound files" here, but since I went through the trouble of posting it on YouTube with a repeating gif, I decided to post it here. The gif image helps drive home the emotion I was trying to create, which is irritation or annoyance.
Imagine trying to get work done somewhere, or just trying to do something serious, while having THIS playing somewhere near you.
Sound and emotion play vital roles everywhere, but when the two are combined the results can be different and interesting. I found an article that talked about the use of sound and music to heal others in need of healing. This method is very interesting as some will swear to it curing many harmful and deadly illnesses.
This method is effective because of the different range of emotions one can receive from a type of music. When one is feeling sad or ill, a calming melody will slowly put there mind at ease. This will then suppress the tense and stressed feelings that are exploding within the body. The individual relaxes and is able to return to normal homeostasis. The healing process then takes place more effectively than before because the hormones that often rage when we get upset are quite.
The website I found talked about the different types of music that can be used to help heal a person. They talked about repeated soft melodies and rhythms that most likely help a patient heal better or relax quicker. This is because music that is repetitive and soft has a calming effect on the human body. When you were a baby for example, your mother or father may have sung you a lullaby. The reason being was to calm you so you may fall asleep. The soft melodies and repetition will have a relaxing effect upon entering the eardrum, causing your nerves to settle, and ultimately cause you to fall asleep if that was the intention. Also the body can recover faster when it is sleeping, because less energy is being used to move, eat, think and even breathe, when you are asleep.
Website I found:
http://www.wisdomofsound.com/sound-healing-home/
Link to a video relating to a calming type of music:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EsL7xpu0f5I&feature=related
by: Joseph Kresz
Game Art and Design
here is the website that my song is posted on with the picture. if u cant get to it i will punch in the password when i get to present.
http://www.ourstage.com/myprofile
I found an article on how music effects your mood or can set the mood. It talks about how music has been used in all cultures throughout history. It says that people having difficulty in a marriage can go see a music therapist to help them learn communication skills. Music can be used for stress reduction and relaxation. I know for me i can't fall asleep without putting my sound clock on rain. The sound of the rain is so peaceful and puts me straight to sleep.
Don Campbell wrote an article called the Mozart Effect where he talks about how music can hind unpleasant sounds and feelings, slow down brain waves, effect blood pressure and heartbeat, strengthen memory, boost productivity i know for me i work a lot faster when im listening to music. Its also used to enhance romance and sexuality, and stimulate digestion just to name a few.
o and heres the link about the article i was talkin about
http://marriage.about.com/library/weekly/aa110801a.htm
Psychophysiology and psychoacoustics of music: Perception of complex sound in normal subjects and psychiatric patients.
Perception of music in normal subjects and psychiatric patients is reported to be different. Analyzing the way music affects human beings may be easier and better when using simpler and shorter sound stimuli. All psychoacoustic elements of sound are represented in the human auditory system starting from the cochlea, the cochlear nuclei and the central auditory pathways all the way up to the temporal lobe. Future research is important in order to document normal responses and reveal patterns of perception in different psychopathologic groups.
Quick Reference:
Copyright © 2004 Iakovides et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=400748
I found this article to be interesting so I hope you enjoy it...
I read an article or something that a college student wrote on how music effects people's lifestyles. He conducted a small survey and the results he got were pretty muchily that the kind of music people listen to effects how they dress, speak, behave, and even what they buy. So here's a link to that little article.
http://www.english.iup.edu/mhayward/en202/Papers03/Sacriponte.htm
I read another article that just talked about the fact the music does affect your mood. They give examples such as: listening to classical music for a sense of power. Soft lullaby-like music to unwind. Medium-fast to fast selections for exercise and housecleaning. But I think we all kinda know this even if we haven't full come to realize it.
My own personal reactions to music are: country makes me feel kinda patriotic, rap and r&b gives me a total headache and if listened to long enough makes me feel sick even, classical is often calming, metal makes me wanna punch something, and punk/emo crap just makes me roll my eyes. But those are my own personal feelings toward those music genres.
As far as how sound effects emotion like what Zack found, I do know of something but my being a pussy keeps me from watching it or sharing it with anyone. There are videos on the internet of something called "The Wyoming Incident/Hijacking." There's a story behind it that I don't feel like going into. Now supposedly when you watch these videos and listen to the audio that goes with them, it's one of the most disturbing things you'll have experienced and maybe not at first but you won't be able to get the sounds out of your mind and thinking back on it will give you a very unsettling feeling and people have said that it's very difficult to watch any of the videos a second time. Now the images in the videos aren't disturbing, it's just some text and heads floating around or w/e. It's the sound that makes the difference. The sounds are just vibrations, I think, just like Zack's but they're meant to instill fear and unease in you rather than calmness or euphoria. And it's a true fact, I've talked to people face to face about it. I would post a link but I have no interest in watching those videos and, I'll admit it, I'm just too damn scared.
I had some trouble finding pages talking about direct psychological effects, but i did find some pages discussing the ability for sounds to lower stress and cause the body to produce more melatonin. If it is a sound i dont like though id o get angry.
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro04/web2/gvaidya.html
http://www.playpiano.com/Articles/music-moods-emotions-3.htm
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n15/mente/musica.html
Music psychology, or the psychology of music, may be regarded either as a branch of psychology or as a branch of musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behavior and musical experience. Modern music psychology is mainly empirical: music-psychological knowledge tends to advance primarily on the basis of interpretations of data about musical behavior and experience, which are collected by systematic observation of and interaction with human participants.
This was a quick defintion from wikipedia. I have found another website that states that music can be used not only for pleasure and psychological means but can also be used as therapy for such things as physical abuse, addictions, dipression, eating disorders and much much more. The website is:
http://www.enterthefreudianslip.com/index.htm
This is the main page from that site:
http://www.enterthefreudianslip.com/use_of_music_in_therapy.htm
What is music psychology?
Music plays an important role in all human societies. It is an essential component of most rituals, ceremonies and gatherings, whether they be religious, festive, sporting or political. Most people spend considerable periods of time every day listening to music. School children often learn a musical instrument; music is now a compulsory subject in the National Curriculum of England and Wales.
Music affects people's lives in innumerable ways. A piece of music can put you in a good mood, or it can move you to tears. It can make you want to sing and dance, or send you into a deep state of relaxation. It can sound orderly or chaotic, consonant or dissonant, interesting or boring, familiar or strange. Music can influence how you spend your money, or even how you vote. It can help you to identify with, or cause you to feel rejected by, a particular social group. Most of all, music profoundly affects the everyday lives of professional musicians.
All these phenomena may be the subject of research in music psychology. Music is of interest to psychologists working on such diverse topics as learning, memory, language, neurophysiology, sensation, perception, behaviour, emotion, skill, intelligence, development, education, sociology, and therapy. Conversely, psychology frequently fascinates musicians, whether theorists interested in the cognition of musical structure, performers and teachers seeking to improve their understanding of practice and performing skills, or musicologists studying the history of music from a sociological perspective.
The field of music psychology has come into its own in the past three decades with the founding of learned societies in various countries, the establishment of highly regarded journals devoted to the systematic study of music psychology, and the advent of regular international conferences on the subject. An overview of recent research in music psychology may be found in journals such as Music Perception or Psychology of Music, or books such as John Sloboda's Exploring The Musical Mind (Oxford, 2004).
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ps/pg/musicmscbroch.htm
Since youtube has become one of our class musts heres some sounds that are meant for soothing and relaxation
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qpjrx4cA6Uo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QQHuhcBznK0
I decided to look up the relation of sound and emotions instead of music and emotions. Our body is in sync with our brain at a molecular level according to the article I have found at:
http://www.rightbiz.com/Article/Sound-and-Emotion/68754
The gist of the article is that our body constantly exchanges information with our brain. We link stories, emotions, even sound to our memory. When we are insulted with derogatory terms our memory responds to how we are supposed to act. A lot of people can also link colors to emotion. “Sense memory” is a term a lot of actors use when they are training to become better actors. It is the linking of sounds, colors, or any other human senses with direct emotional acting.
Also, emotion has the word motion in it.
Matthew Garbatini
Game Art & Design
Mood-altering music isn't some weird, esoteric genre. All music, depending on the listener can have an effect on mood. Generally, soft, low tempo music has a calming effect while heavily distorted, fast tempo music has an agitating effect.
There are a few well-known genres made specifically to calm the listener:
Trance
Ambient Music
New Age
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Two Lunks to the Wyoming Incident:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MADuaAzo5Hk&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TvfEh-XgYUI&feature=relatedpippin12
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