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You know how their faces contort when hitting certain notes or rhythms? Why is that triggered in the face? Is it an emotional response? Communication by facial expression? Vestigial from some other process?

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[โ€“] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Emotion.

Music the the closest thing to real magic we have.

Edit: that said, some people have... weird facial tics when playing that are distracting, and sometimes disturbing. Two guys on YouTube who review gear, and stuff, who I won't name, seem like really nice guys, guys you'd want to hang and play with. But, one chews his tongue the entire time, and the other stares stone faced like a robot into the camera the entire time. The latter has worked on that after people mentioned it, and is much better about it.

To be clear, I'm not mocking them. Like I said, they seem like really cool dudes. But that kind of thing can take all of your attention, instead of listening to the playing.

Music the the closest thing to real magic we have.

That's a stretch and 3 halves, when we have quantum computers and other fun science hobby projects