bpm influence

[cycloptic]

well the video (uncensored) for cherry blossom girl is about the two of them possibly doubleteaming a depressed porn star...

good track though, the production on talkie walkie is flawless (sometimes i used to smoke and listen to it just because i can't actually hear all the work that's gone into it without drugs)

[john01]

Originally Posted by vj_jasper

i refused to listen to Air for years, and have only found 3 songs of theirs that are at all enjoyable to listen to.. Cherry Blossom Girl is one of them, although actually can't quite figure out what the song is about. i thought they were wandering about in a japanese super-mall admiring the assistants and presentors in the many shops.. which seemed harmless enough.

Cherry blossom time in Japan is an excuse to go out and get drunk under the trees, everyone does it from students to wrinklies.

Since the trees blossom for such a brief time it is associated with female beauty and also links into bushido in a way, life is a brief and beautiful flower.

[vj_jasper]

and yet some japanese women are renowned for their enduring beauty. perhaps they are able to access the very essence of cherry blossom within their own energy fields? or perhaps it is just all that green tea.

[bigfug]

Originally Posted by vj_jasper

if there is a list of predictable human responses to a range of bpm's, that may be valuable information as relates to composing and arranging tracks.

I wonder if it's more specific, and on a individual basis. Kind of like synchronising with (and slightly modulating) people's brain clocks by using very low frequency sound. Some people react to slightly different frequencies, and in different ways.

Back in the day (Music-X on the Amiga, hell yeah) I remember writing tracks and finding I thought 121bpm 'felt' much better than 120 or 122, and the same around 96bpm. Perhaps they're part of some internal frequency scale, for me...

[john01]

Originally Posted by vj_jasper

and yet some japanese women are renowned for their enduring beauty. perhaps they are able to access the very essence of cherry blossom within their own energy fields? or perhaps it is just all that green tea.

Hair dye, parasols, seaweed and a lot of hard work.

ps

cherry boy is slang for a male virgin

[PilotX]

Originally Posted by vj_jasper

it could be the beginning of specification of parameters between which are the most commonly enjoyed tempo's. perhaps, between 60 and 160 bpm

this changes so much though - go back to jazz clubs of the 30s and 40s, playing swing @ 200bpm+ or dixieland at 300bpm+ and you'll get a different story.
the fact of the matter is that it is much more difficult to play live instruments at a high tempo or very, very slowly, and so alot of music is played around the 60-140 mark, I'd expect thrash metal to get over 200bpm, and hardcore punk maybe some of it around there as well (but I have a feeling punk is deceptively slow in bpm for the energy it has).

there's been a fair amount of research into heartbeat/bpm correlations but afaik none of them really drew any conclusion that having a beat running at 70 or 140bpm (I think that 70 beats/min is average human heart rate at rest, I can't be bothered to look it up tbh) made any real difference, plus the spread of heartbeat rates around that average is pretty broad, ie: most people have a rest rate of within 10bpm, and the spread is pretty even - so it's not likely that you'll ever hit the tempo of an individuals heartbeat anyway.