Listening to music while riding

[pritch]

Listening to classical music, eg. Mozart, supposedly has a huge effect on a baby's developing brain even while still in utero. There has been research done on that suggesting that it fires up neuron pathways within the brain making new connections and optimising brain development.

Basically, listening to classical music is thought to stimulate the brain's alpha waves, which can reportedly result in the listener becoming more intelligent than otherwise may have been the case. I know of a mother who did the housework to a classical soundtrack in the hope of assisting the development of her two small children.

Observation of the brain dead driving habits in this town leads me to conclude that not many of the drivers have listened to much classical music.

[oneofsix]

Basically, listening to classical music is thought to stimulate the brain's alpha waves, which can reportedly result in the listener becoming more intelligent than otherwise may have been the case. I know of a mother who did the housework to a classical soundtrack in the hope of assisting the development of her two small children.

Observation of the brain dead driving habits in this town leads me to conclude that not many of the drivers have listened to much classical music.

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is a classic

[G4L4XY]

Probably be illegal soon

[Akzle]

Listening to classical music, eg. Mozart, supposedly has a huge effect on a baby's developing brain even while still in utero. There has been research done on that suggesting that it fires up neuron pathways within the brain making new connections and optimising brain development.

... sound waves have an effect on water, babies happen to be largely water, and in water. (check out masauro emoto (sp?) effect of sound waves on water crystals)
not to mention humans are 80 sommat % water. infact a large part of the planet is water. so music affects EVERYTHING. if you are listening to a particular type of music when you're welding (the metal is liquid) - that music will become part of that weld. cool shit huh?

White noise would be the ideal thing to listen to as it relaxes the brain. A relaxed mind is better prepared to concentrate and not be distracted.

As for processing power, the mind can only process one thing at once generally, so it is technically another distraction. Then again, the speed of which the brain can prioritise these tasks is ridiculously fast.

no the ideal thing would be a binaural tone that stimulates the brain at a frequency that would improve riding... but fuck that. unlike a computer, the mind can actually process a billion things at once. humans are not binary machines.

[nathanwhite]

... sound waves have an effect on water, babies happen to be largely water, and in water. (check out masauro emoto (sp?) effect of sound waves on water crystals)
not to mention humans are 80 sommat % water. infact a large part of the planet is water. so music affects EVERYTHING. if you are listening to a particular type of music when you're welding (the metal is liquid) - that music will become part of that weld. cool shit huh?

Thats some serious science right there.

[nosebleed]

... in about awl lets say 3030, if man is still alive.

Very good. But it's 2525

Carry on.

[sootie]

I have listened to music from an MP3 player most of the way around the entire North Island over the last year or two. I am very fussy about what I listen to, it is always something which I have found that I enjoyed in the past! At last count there were over 500 tunes on my bike player - everything from hard rock to Opera to Classical & all random shuffled. Periodically I also talk bike to bike about traffic, road conditions, evening accommodation, girls or what ever too. This is my mushed up brain typing this now after hundreds of hours of this sort of bike listening.

Driving a cage with the correctly fitted handsfree cellphone kit is of course absolutely OK. No matter that yesterday's big money customer rings you up while driving, abuses hell out of you and asks detailed questions about how to get their new appliance to work properly while you negotiate city traffic. That is all fine.
It is even safer to take a call from your divorce or traffic mis-demeanor solicitor. No loss of concentration there.

[YellowDog]

I don't listen to music whilst I ride, for several reasons.

This song got me in very high speed trouble a few years back:

[tbs]

I don't listen to music whilst I ride, for several reasons.

This song got me in very high speed trouble a few years back:

Should'a been listening to "Relax".

I listen to music every time I ride. I pimped my bike out with the best sound system I could get. It's called a Micron GP pipe, and much like a Foo Fighters concert, it's a bit loud without ear-plugs. But the inline 4 scream, burble, and pop it makes between gear changes and on over-run (not to mention the odd flame) sounds like a symphony to me.

[imdying]

... sound waves have an effect on water, babies happen to be largely water, and in water. (check out masauro emoto (sp?) effect of sound waves on water crystals)
not to mention humans are 80 sommat % water. infact a large part of the planet is water. so music affects EVERYTHING. if you are listening to a particular type of music when you're welding (the metal is liquid) - that music will become part of that weld. cool shit huh?

Well not quite. That hypothesizes that sound affects everything; it doesn't show any correlation between music and anything.

[Akzle]

Well not quite. That hypothesizes that sound affects everything; it doesn't show any correlation between music and anything.

1) sound DOES affect everything. (is music not sound?!)
2) expand your research beyond my search query and you may learn some.
3) 1), again, it's fairly obvious, innit? if i play my tomatoes death metal they grow funny, if i play them carmina burana, they flower lots and burn well..
i mean.
err.


nah fuckit.

[imdying]

Music is sound, but sound is not necessarily music.

For all you know, the sound of a vibrator humming away will make them grow better than Mozart.

[MystikEagle]

I have to say, I do find it much easier to concentrate in traffic, mostly while trying to find wherever it is I am going, with the music turned down or off, I assume it will be much the same on a bike. But this is mostly because of the head injuries I have sustained in the past which means my brain finds it difficult to decide what is the most important thing to concentrate on. Less distractions = safer driver

[Akzle]

For all you know, the sound of a vibrator humming away will make them grow better than Mozart.

can i borrow yours, then?
(carmina burana ≠ wolfgang amadeus)

[Akzle]

i listen to music often while riding, don't care if commute or ride-proper, sometime's i don't. do find i tend to get "in the groove" with good music, then sometimes get frustrated with crap that i forget to delete off the MP3... couldn't stand doing it to the radio....(harvey norman adverts make me violent)