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Do you regularly experience frisson when listening to music? Yes or No? (I am Yes, a recognizable feeling, but not every listening.)
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The urban dictionary calls it a soundgasm.
Sure- this is the emotional connection to our hobby. Happy Listening!
I remember discussing this with my wife when we first got married and being surprised that she doesn't experience chills with music, but does with certain experiences that don't do it for me. Everyone is wired slightly differently.
And I'll bet we'll be seeing "frisson" appear soon as a brand name....
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Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb from the Pulse CD does it for me. After listening to it moderately cranked up, I find I have to turn off the system and walk away for a while because anything else would feel anti-climatic. If I smoked, I'd probably have a cigarette afterwards.
Humming excites and delights.
but, often enough.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
...from my perspective, being an audiophile is about connecting emotionally to the music.
When that happens I feel it and sometimes it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
...All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison on DCC Gold, "Running Scared" as the dynamics peak at the end, he says "she turned and walked away with me."
Steve Winwood's "Higher Love", "I could light the night up with my soul on fire".
Just about anything on Robert Johnson's "King of the Delta Blues Singers", a 1937 recordings remastered on Columbia, realizing it all started here and he is amazing with his unique guitar playing and vocals.
Maybe he did sell his soul to the devil...
Oxytocin plays a role as well--the chill down the spine sensation.
There are moments if I am really into it. Opera is most likely for me to create tingles. Particularly singers like Maria Callas, though Emma Kirkby can get me there too.
For movies.. Like the end of Shindler's list, When he is thinking about how many more he might have saved.. I burst into tears. (I am not Jewish) Even now, thinking about it I got frisson... For a moment.
Sometimes music gives me brain orgasms, especially when I've cleared my head and I'm 100% into the music. It happens most frequently at dramatic moments, or with certain oddly harmonic combinations of chords.
It doesn't matter whether it's a $100,000 system or a $10 clock radio. When the build-up rises to its peak and those first few chords of the guitar kick in, goosebumps up my arms and the back of my neck, every time.
Skin Orgasms , I like that term for it.
Same thing when the sax comes in on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street.
There's too many Blues licks to mention that cause it for me, but it makes music a visceral as well as an intellectual experience, and I'm very grateful for that.
I just experienced it on your Dire Straits vid even over my computer speakers! Or was that simply the power of suggestion? ;^)
BTW, I expect it when I listen to that on my main system.
"You can't know what the "best" is unless you have heard everything, and keep in mind that given individual tastes, there really isn't any such thing." HP
The Tower of Power horns on Little Feat's live version of Mercenary Territory gives me goosebumps and a chill if I'm playing it loud and immersed in it.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Not even with my previous, mega-buck systems. Maybe I'm just emotionally dead. Or my systems suck.
I do tap my feet a lot, though.
I don't think the cost of the system has that much to do with it. I can get chills listening to the system in my truck. It has more to do with having a deeper connection to certain passages, notes or lyrics.
I agree that money has little to do with it. Some of my most enjoyable music moments have been on the cheapest gear. But that's a topic onto itself.
These days, my connection with a particular lyric or note usually doesn't manifest itself with chills or goosebumps or the like. Not sure why. It's more like an intellectual appreciation of that lyric or note rather than a visceral reaction, if that makes any sense.
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"I can't compete with the dead" (Buck W. 2010)
"It would take me forever. I don't think I have forever" (Byrd 2015)
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