I think it’s safe to say that all humans who can hear, enjoys music. Not everybody likes the same genre, but what is it about music in general that makes humans so drawn to it?
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Rhythm and acoustic harmonies define music. As we learn more about brain physiology, it is becoming clearer that the dynamic activity that our neurology facilitates consists of coherent, coordinated patterns. For instance, between 30 and 50 times per second a wave of neural activity sweeps across our brain from back to front, changing and reconfiguring itself as it passes through and interacts with successive neuronal structures and configurations, including those which process sensory perception.
Scientists speculate this phenomenon is part of how our brain’s disparate structures coordinate their information to produce the seamless and coherent reality each of us perceives.
In this sense, the neurological activity that produces our experienced reality already mimics some musical elements such as rhythm and pattern progression.
It makes sense then that music’s rhythm and harmonies create feelings of satisfaction and pleasure if they constructively interact with and infuence patterned brain activity.
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