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Psychological Induction in Music Production: A Cross-Disciplinary Framework for Emotional Perception

Author(s)

Yiming Tian

Affiliation(s)

London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, BA(Hons), Music Production, London, SE1 6SB, United Kingdom

Abstract

I know that music has been a powerful thing to convey feelings since ancient times. However, making good use of psychological rules when making music has not been well studied. This paper puts forward the practice of transcending the field. This method combines the psychological model of emotion, especially Russell’s Valence-Arousal (V-A) model, with the traditional composition law and modern music creation law, and analyzes how to produce emotional acceptance in music. This method makes the listener’s response to music elements such as rhythm, texture, harmony, strength change, frequency balance and space design correspond to the emotional space of two-dimensional V-A. Investigate whether the meaning of music is the same from the existing meta-research results. By analyzing two comparative examples: Mars by Gustav Holst, the bringer of war (1914-1917) and Discreet Music by Brian Eno (1975), it is shown that this method can be used in practice. The results show that the emotion felt in modern music is produced by the choice of composition and the decision of intentional creation, which provides a complete way for the composer to create intentional emotion.

Keywords

Music Production; Emotional Perception; Valence-Arousal Model; Psychological Induction; Musical Parameters

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