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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