My partner came up with a theory that weird time signatures in music make neurodivergent brains happy, but I mostly dislike prog rock, so I made a 5/4 dance song and yup, it made our brains happy.

[deelion@mastodon.social]

@Virginicus ah yes, the theory may be flawed if actually just everyone likes it

[3tomatoesshort@disabled.social]

@deelion
For what it's worth (my brain has a complicated relationship with music), I'm autistic and this makes my brain intensely uncomfortable
Probably this is one of my least favourite genres though so I would be interested to hear other examples, I might go see what YouTube can offer..

[deelion@mastodon.social]

@3TomatoesShort That's interesting, but also sorry! Hope your YouTube adventure is more enjoyable!

[3tomatoesshort@disabled.social]

@deelion
Oh no problem, I'm used to music disturbing my brain I had a bit of a melt down in an Irish pub once because the music just had too many things happening at once

[witewulf@cyberplace.social]

@deelion @nomdeb yeah, I read once that one of the things about jazz, prog and math rock that makes brains happy is an element of challenge, at following the rhythm. Air drumming, tapping, or even just counting along in your head, is a lot easier to get a “similar” performance to for a non-musician than guitar or keyboards.

Which is effectively what Guitar Hero amounted to

Love your tune, that’s lush that is

[deelion@mastodon.social]

@WiteWulf @nomdeb Thanks! And that makes a lot of sense - my brain pretty much just stops doing anything else and fixates on it like a little puzzle. It's definitely not the best to put on while you're trying to work

[folfdk@helvede.net]

@deelion

Out of curiosity:

Is "Take five" your favourite jazz standard?

[deelion@mastodon.social]

@folfdk I've also never really listened to jazz, but apparently I should!

[melissabenyon@climatejustice.social]

@deelion "Read About It" and "Short Memory" by Midnight Oil both have great, different-than-most-rock-music time signatures in parts of each song, if you are looking for more samples to test the theory.

[anna@mathstodon.xyz]

@deelion Different vibes, but I've seen people classify the time signature both as 5/16 and as 10/16, so I guess that counts as unusual?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1jILV6rv2Q&list=RDb1jILV6rv2Q&index=1&t=5973s

#Music #Piano #MinimalMusic #CantoOstinato #SimeonTenHolt

[folfdk@helvede.net]

@deelion

I just realized there are several comments already about Take Five

Sorry about repeating that