LisaShayBrown
100+ Head-Fier
i'd bet it's both. certain frequencies may resonate with frequencies the brain operates on, and of course music is immensely more complex and really gets the brain fired up.I think that has to do more with the patterns than the frequency of the sound. Music is organized and it leads us through a melody phrase by phrase to a resolution. The best music does that in a way that isn't totally predictable. It adds variations that makes each verse a little different. Following that keeps a listener engaged and on his toes. It's like listening to a conversation without words... a language we were born understanding and as time goes by with more experience, understand even better.
The world seems so random to us a lot of the time. When we listen to music (or look at art) we are seeing organization being used to reveal something true. That gives us hope that the world may not be as random as it seems. Bach said, "The sole purpose of music is the glorification of God." I find the crystalline perfection of the organization in his music to be a human scaled model of what a grand universal force controlling everything might look like.