Why Does Music Make Us Feel?

SUBJECT: So there's this great line about music

that says that "Music is proof that the human race is greater

than it knows."

You know that feeling when you hear a transcendent symphony

and you get the goosebumps?

And you're moved to tears?

And you experience that kind of cognitive emotional ecstasy?

It's music's capacity to communicate the ineffable,

the inexpressible.

It's this urge to language that human beings have.

And when crude words don't work, we

have to translate it into symphony.

And these temporary ecstasies that we

instrument into existence need to be recorded.

And our innovations with recording music

are even more transcendent.

What started as etching grooves on an LP, patterning the sound,

instantiating it into physical form so that it could be played

back has evolved now into a world of binary digital

information, ecstasies beamed from brain to brain,

for someone's heart to someone else's.

This is music.

And indeed, that line is spot on,

proof the human race is greater than it knows.