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Humanity’s soundtrack: How music has influenced society and what it means to be human

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Center for New Music and Audio Technologies technical director Jeremey Wagner in a studio on Sunday, March 24, 2024, in Berkeley, California. Wagner is a composer, lecturer and the technical director of the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at UC Berkeley. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

When was the last time music made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, sent a chill down your spine or gave you goosebumps all over?

Whether it’s a full-body rush from joining in an outdoor choir of 58,000 Swifties at Levi’s Stadium or a shudder from the evocative tension that’s made Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings� cinema’s unofficial mourning song, those moments spark a psychophysiological phenomenon or frisson.





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