The Shiver You Didn't Ask For
The shiver you get when music cracks you open has a name. Scientists call it frisson. MIT has studied it. And one afternoon in Ibiza, Sven Väth explained it better than any researcher could.
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Long-form pieces on the neuroscience of frisson, music psychology, and what your listening reveals about you.
The shiver you get when music cracks you open has a name. Scientists call it frisson. MIT has studied it. And one afternoon in Ibiza, Sven Väth explained it better than any researcher could.
Read →Collective effervescence is powerful precisely because it removes the question of individual taste. But that removal creates a hunger. The morning after, you want to know: what is mine?
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