>>12519912>Goa trance and psytrance artists both specifically try to attune their music to certain BPMs that are related to heartrate.I agree and think there's probably some kind of meaningful correlation between heart rate BPM and music BPM, and that different layers of synchronization between time-based activity in the body/brain and music fairly likely plays some significant role in enjoyment and appreciation of music.
(Basing this in part on subjective perception but mostly tidbits of music neuroscience papers I've read. Also this is arguably perhaps somewhat "common sense", without trying to use that term condescendingly. By common sense I mean like folk psychology or common/colloquial intuition, as seen by terms like "vibe", "connect", etc.)
>Some of these artists have an absolutely unique ability to get their crowds to move in waves and I suspect there are some universal qualities about the human phenomenal experience and body that these specific styles of music manages to touch on.That's interesting, I've always thought about synchronization hierarchies but didn't really think about it much with respect to things outside of an individual. That definitely makes a lot of sense.
And regarding common hypotheses about music serving an evolutionary purpose of synchronizing certain kinds of group activity and cooperation, it'd be pretty elegant if it's kind of synchronization all the way up
Like starting at the level of the individual unicellular organisms in your brain and body each following or creating a pattern, and then their circuits and ensemble patterns, and then macro-scale patterns like brainwaves and heart rate, and then more visceral patterns like moving/dancing
So maybe there could even be some sort of fractal-y physical/universal principle in there all driven by evolution, kind of like fractal-y analogies of unicellular organisms, multicellular organisms, animals, communities, societies, worlds, etc.
