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Soundless Music?

Posted by michael on from the imitating-paul-simon dept.

Julez writes "Hi, Found this on icLiverpool's site, thought you might find this interesting.... A bizarre experiment in soundless music has revealed how people's emotions are affected by noises they cannot hear..."

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  1. Sound makes no difference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah - this probably explains why my girlfriend's mood changes the same way whether I fart silently or not...

  2. Gas up the Mystery Machine, Scoob! by FearUncertaintyDoubt · · Score: 5, Funny
    Some scientists also claim it is the cause of the uneasy feelings and changes of emotion experienced in places believed to be haunted.

    Mr O'Keefe added: "When places affect people physically and they aren't able to explain it, they often attribute their feelings to being near a ghost."

    And I would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!

  3. Re:Maybe it's good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think it's pretty clear God hates you. Sorry.

  4. This could just as easily been called. . . by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    How people are effected by the sound of tectonic plates moving, or how people are effected by the sound made by giant crickets from Mars ( which might well be good to know come the invasion)

    Are you ready to Ruuuuuuuuummmmmmmble?

    It's certainly no secret that people are effected by really, really low bass notes. As the article itself notes church organs have been using this trick to spice up the "Glory Hallelujahs" for centuries.

    The part that's interesting is that seems to be a mood *enhancer*, rather producing any specific effect, so if the power of the Lord is already moving you that organ is going to move you more.

    Let's hear it for the Church and gut level empiricism.

    Don't install one of these "sub-sub-woofers" if you have pissy neighbors though. It reminds of the Bill Cosby joke about cocaine:

    "It enhances my personality"

    "Yeah, but what if you're an asshole?"

    KFG

  5. deaf people fighting... by scubacuda · · Score: 5, Funny
    this will probably get trolled down...

    But oddly, this (for whatever friggin' reason) reminded me of a deaf couple I once saw fighting. The guy got really angry and closed his eyes. The lady was SO FURIOUS that he wasn't "listening" to her that she tried to PRY the other guy's eyes open with her fingers! What I wouldn't have given to know what they were talking about!

    (Am I a bastard for laughing HARDER b/c I knew that they couldn't hear me?)

  6. How does this reply affect your mood??? by w3svc_animal · · Score: 5, Funny

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