September 14, 2009
monkey music
Monkeys don’t respond to human music, but when you “compose music based on the pitch, tone and tempo of tamarin calls“, a musician and psychologist “discovered that the species-specific music significantly affected monkey behavior and emotional response.”
“Different species may have different things that they react to and enjoy differently in music,” said psychologist Charles Snowdon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who published the paper Tuesday in Biology Letters with composer David Teie of the University of Maryland. “If we play human music, we shouldn’t expect the monkeys to enjoy that, just like when we play the music that David composed, we don’t enjoy it too much.”
(via marginal revolution)
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