Composer Jonathan Berger wrote a recent essay in Nautilus about how tunes can “hijack our perception,” going into detail about some of the most confounding effects. Basically: clocks keep track of the objective end of things, but our brains and bodies can perceive time with an entirely different rhythm; a subjective take dictated by what Berger describes as “physiological metronomes.”
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Hot tip: never put on Wagner in the car. Ride of the Valkyries is most dangerous thing to listen to on the road, apparently, because the the amped tempo is likely to make you feel like you need to speed to keep up with the music.
via Gizmodo
