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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You can search Adam Neely on Youtube. He covers a lot of music stuff and some of it from an academic perspective as well. One of his videos talks about this particular question and the answer he gave (or the research gave) is 33 BPM, if I am not mistaken.
So if the “music” is slower than one beat every 2 seconds, approximately, it doesn’t connect together like music anymore and is perceived as individual sounds.
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