Bioenergetic Music/Music Theraphy.
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My comment is that I've read that metal music can help stress relief and is an aggression/cortisol mitigator. There are lots of studies out there confirming such things that can be easily found, to the surprise of most people. I've always loved metal and people usually tell me I'm very easygoing. As a musician, learning the music is very rewarding and challenging.
My theory/observation is that metal is akin to classical because it is often following strict rules as far as timing, technique, speed, etc. Purely as listening, though, I will note that it is not always the same thing as classical!
Most people say metal is noise. This means something because noise is obnoxious and painful. Ok, but let's say it isn't noise and that it's only noise to the untrained ear. Great. The next step is in demonstrating that it actually does take training to understand metal which is why so many guitarists and other musicians love metal, and pick up instruments to learn it in the first place.
As far as bioenergetic, I think it's something like catharsis. I believe a lot of rock and roll has a modus operandi of undressing a girl or getting high; it is not always truly energetic music. It is often serotonin and estrogen music. Whatever, plenty of metal is shit / serotonin/pufa/estrogenic sound too, so it's not that game I want to play.
It is bioenergetic in that it is technical and requires concentration, critical thinking, and literally, the Peat motto of "perceive, think, act." Extreme metal especially is often a game of identifying deceit or trickery. The notes can sometimes be literally "bedeviled" in the best way - tricking the ear and the mind. This reminds me of reading Peat's articles, and hearing things that maybe you don't want to hear. At the same time it is sort of like the proverbial abyss staring back at you.
I think the cathartic angle is related to this. The technical skills needed to play metal are very underrated. Our culture does not enjoy much classical or metal; both are pretty underground and niche, even though there are some major acts. And I don't think the technicality is an IQ thing, or anything necessarily. Music and metal is sort of like one of the vestiges of traditional lifestyles - like chopping wood or skinning a bear. It is tough and requires discipline.
For that matter, jazz and other genres require discipline! But to me there is something molecular-sounding about extreme metal. The "emotions" are always second to the discipline and method. So that's one of things I love about metal and how it seems bioenergetic. The notes and patterns are almost not important in and of themselves, but in relation to the whole of the song. Similar to how minerals, vitamins, fats, proteins, etc., are understood better taking Peat's big picture lenses of the body, world, and health.
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I think David Bowie is very bioenergetic!
Who is the most bioenergetic musician of all time?
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Postmodern Jukebox ft. Sunny Holiday
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At slow speed we all seem focused
In motion we seem wrong, wrong
In summer we can taste the rainIn our short years, we come long way
To treat it bad and throw away
And if we make a little space
A science-fiction showcase
In our short film, a love disgrace
Dream a scene to brighten face
In our short years we come long way
To treat it bad, just to throw it away -
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There's a watcher waiting on the edge of the world
With the thoughts that never darken when the lights go down
In the rhythm of living and the shifting tribe
Through the cities of destruction in these graceless timesIn the smallness of one heartbeat power overthrow
In the oneness of the journey for a homing soul
With the spirits of the mighty here since day began
A shadow rushes through the grasslands to the dying sun -
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