Sound, Music, Affect: Theorising Sonic Experience by Marie Thompson and Ian Biddle

Chapter Two: Felt as thought (or, musical abstraction and the semblance of affect) Eldritch Priest

-As Plato noted and Muzak exploited, music has a peculiar way of simulating and affecting expressions of vital activity.

–(…) the human organism not only posses a capability too abstract a qualitative-relational value from sensory particulars but develops a capacity to live in and through these abstractions that are expressive of an ‘import’ which doubles sensations with a ‘likeness’-semblance-‘entirely congruent with forms of mentality and vital experience.