Transcend Kinesiology
Totaly Pavlina
The findings might help to personalize playlists for patients, using artificial intelligence to analyze individual physiological and psychological responses, and help to evaluate the effectiveness of existing music therapies, suggest the researchers.
Despite evidence of the therapeutic effects of music for mental health issues, such as anxiety, depression, and post traumatic stress disorder, there's no consensus on what defines healing music, note the researchers.
These were compared with 330 classical music pieces written by 10 composers and played on 11 instruments; 50 pieces of traditional five-element Chinese music; 100 Jazz recordings; and 300 emotional music recordings from the Chinese affective music system (CAMS).
Traditional Chinese five-element music comprises five different tones or pitches, each of which connects to the liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, corresponding to the five elements of wood, fire, metal, earth, and water.
The CAMS covers seven distinct emotional states: happiness; calm; sadness; fear; disgust; anger; and surprise. Each clip is accompanied by a set of indicator data, two of which were used in this study: valence, which describes the ability of music to evoke feelings of happiness or sadness; and arousal.
Classical music accounted for the largest proportion (28.5%) of recommendations, followed by pop music (18%). None of the remaining genres accounted for more than 15% of the total. Five participants nominated "Castle in the Sky" by Japanese musician Joe Hisaishi.
Based on this, three potentially distinctive acoustic features of healing music were identified that were independent of genre, differed from regular music of the same genre, and were consistent across various different types of healing music.
The SD of the roughness describes the extent to which perceived irregularity or harshness of a sound deviates from the average; the MFCC captures the amount of energy in different frequency ranges, with mean referring to the average, and period entropy referring to the randomness or predictability in patterns of frequency components over time.
"For example, dissonant intervals in music with a high roughness can evoke feelings of tension or suspense, whereas consonant intervals in music with smoother sounds can evoke a sense of relaxation or resolution," they explain.
And they echo those of previous research indicating that music is a universal language that transcends culture and genre, say the researchers. This includes traditional music forms, such as pilgrimage songs in Nigeria, high-life drumming in Ghana, singing bowl music in India, and five-element music in China.
But they suggest that incorporating the three acoustic features into music could enable health care professionals to personalize therapeutic playlists for patients, by harnessing AI algorithms to analyze physiological and psychological responses in real time.
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