Sound of Depression
Updated: Jul 8, 2020
Low-frequency noise (LFN) has been shown to have important health effects everywhere, including vertigo, disturbed sleep, stress, hypertension, and heart rhythm disorders.
emotional reactions to keys are informed by our cultural preconceptions
in ancient Greece, the Lydian harmonial was used to evoke melancholy and sadness as our minor scale; and the Lydian closely resembles our major scale.
Slow Tempo
melancholy collides with specificity.
people who ranked high on the neuroticism scale experienced sadness when they had been moved to tears by music, and people who scored high in the openness to experience scale felt like crying, because the music provoked a profound sense of awe.
For most people, listening to music – even music expressing negative emotions like sadness or anger – can be an effective way to deal with their emotions.
New research shows short bursts of ultrasound (sound waves above the range of human hearing), at just 30 seconds a time, appear to boost mood and ease anxiety.
ultrasound group saw their score rise from 54.6 to 59.3 in just ten minutes.
Six potential sources of noise annoyance (road traffic, aircraft, railways, industrial/construction, neighborhood indoor and outdoor)
Compared to other sources, annoyance by aircraft noise was prominent affecting almost 60% of the population and also accounted mostly for extreme degrees of annoyance.
Ringing telephone can be a source of stress, as well as the prospect of having to make a telephone call.
sensitivity to external noise
Reference
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