takma-rierah:

kedreeva:

cactus-nymph:

purupurupikopuyo:

now that’s the kinda news i wanna hear

i made my cat listen to the audio clip in from the article + he loved it

I called my skittish kitty, Aislynn, into the bedroom and up onto the bed next to me, and I played the Cozmo’s Air for her. No reaction. But she’s my “suckler” kitty, who does nursing paws and drools on stuff when she is happy. So I put on Rusty’s Ballad instead. And she stopped moving, just staring at me like she’d found god. Then she closed her eyes. I played it again and she carefully laid down with her head near the speaker of my laptop. I paid for and downloaded the whole song immediately and halfway through playing the full song, my other cat came into the room and stared at the computer like she had also found god, and now they are both laying near me listening with their eyes slitted and their ears ticking.

This dude came and did a talk at my school once! He collaborated with a composer to make music based on the bodily rhythms and communication patterns of both monkeys (who prefer higher-pitched, fast-paced music) and for cats, linked above.

Although interesting already just for its potential to improve pet lives, this work was done to study why humans like music, and what aspects of it we respond to at an emotional level. By trying to predict what elements of sound other animals will respond to and composing for them, we can test hypotheses about why it is that seemingly all humans enjoy music of some variety, too (to the extent that it’s literally impossible to find a human of any age who hasn’t been exposed to music!)