For example, if I played a song really, really slowly. Say, one note per hour, I doubt people would be able to recognize it as music and have the same chemical, physical, and emotional response than if it were played “normally”. When does music become just sound and vice versa?
**Have there been any experiments on how slow music can be before we stop “feeling” the music?**
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Music major here. Defining something as “music” can be considered subjective based on culture/geography. But for most Westerners, when we begin to hear the ratios of frequencies within a monophonic (only one note at a time) phrase, I believe, our brains tell us “this is music”.
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