Frisson

[ananzi]

Just discovered that musical frisson ("chills" resulting from dopamine production in response to hearing emotionally-charged music) is actually a thing - not everyone experiences it, at least not frequently. I always took it for granted. Reading this article on the difference between ASMR and frisson was fascinating, partially because the sections on frisson described pretty well something that I've felt a lot. It's also gotten me listening to Eric Whitacre's music, which is lovely. Choral music used to not be my thing, but recently - maybe in part due to the Gregorian chant I've been encountering in my Medieval Music class - I'm really appreciating it.

I'm hard-pressed to come up with very many examples of frisson-inducing songs off the top of my head, but I know for certain that "Defying Gravity" has been one of them since sometime before I even saw Wicked.