Where in your body do you most experience music?

I want props for not making that last option a specific Geir reference btw

the neck.

would submit that "ears" would have been a good choice to have in this poll

that's kind of inside-the-head though - you mean physically in the meat of your lobes 'n' stuff? that's "head" I guess!

except of course that "ears" is covered by the last option, unless you mean compulsive ear-twitching

xp: ha

somewhere between my stomach (where i have a lot of illness, and music tends to rumble down there) and my chest (where my heart beats, and i can hear the music bouncing around in my cavities). tho also sometimes music just makes me flush all over and my hair stand on end, and sometimes it just seems to sooth and balm me. so really all over. re: head, i think about music, but i tend not to feel it in my head -- tho sometimes over my eyes, and obv if you sing along, on your tongue, your lips, etc.

i think it's a super great question btw. Barthes talks about the grain of the voice, that when you hear a voice, you hear the body that makes the voice. but i def think it's worth thinking about the body that hears the music too.

IN THE SOUL!

for me by the way this one has really, really changed a lot over the years - as a teenager, it was so palpable in my arms, like I couldn't contain the energy in them - seemed to move from there to my chest - now I'd probably say hands & wrists, though I think that's probably partly a function of how much time I spend making music in addition to listening to it

i guess the real answer is brain though cuz that governs the hearing process and any and all movement of limbs and nutsacks and stuff

i am currently experiencing "double up" by killaqueenz & lady chann in my hips

it's sort of impossible not to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUrqxf2Hq_I

holy fucking hell lex

Good idea for a poll...I experience my favourites with a kind of hybrid reaction, making me think, shiver, dance all at once.

for me it's the solar plexus.

you haven't heard lady chann, dan?! you will LOVE these others too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScPhaZDVOh8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xRjXB8rreQ

up the butt

xpost to lex

damn that's nice

http://www.homotron.net/images/homotron/bullet-usb-speakers.jpg

proper goths will vote "hands" or be driven from the cave

I am kind of ;_; that there is no option for "everywhere"

my answer is likely some combination of hips and neck/shoulders (which also implies chest and abdomen since you can't move those parts of your body without moving the pieces in between)

xp: lol I save "hands" for when I get tired

zomg I saw "STICKY PRODUCTION" and well yes I was pretty much sold before hearing the track

Also this thread is reminding me of when I was in Japan on a choir trip and one of the Japanese glee clubs we sang with did this fucking amazing rowing song at the buffet thrown in our honor that pulsed with so much beat (duh, it's a rowing song) that I started dancing to it and one of my friends was all "stop that! you're being offensive!" To this day, that experience really, really pisses me off.

proper goths will vote "hands" or be driven from the cave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4P5nMLKklk

where, physically, do you most experience the music you love most?

Thanks for giving me that out, because the music I love most is live music -- ignoring genre divisions -- and that music hits me right in the thorax. But I don't get out to live performances nearly as often as I wish I could, so the music I listen to the most is mostly experienced in my head.

My spine.

is it the bassline?

kickin' that smurf!

my left elbow

booty

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Definitely head. No competition.

I remember an old Sinead O'Connor interview in which she said she experienced hip-hop in her womb (the word she used).

My answer in this poll was influenced by the fact that I was listening to the new Daddy Yankee album, but none of the options are entirely adequate. (I'm not sure that if I thought about it I would really want to describe myself as experiencing music "in" my body or "in" my head, but I'm not going to think about it. I think I'd rather say I experience music with those things.)

I mean, I wouldn't say I experience those sensations in my body as the music.

I remember it used to be in my feet and the base of the spine but since I started djing a few years ago it's moved up to my shoulders, which makes me a little sad.

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chest

these results are genuinely surprising to me! dance being among the most basic functions/expressions of music, certain posters' WHOSE OPINIONS ON THE SUBJECT HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR OVER THE YEARS & EVERYBODY HAS ACCESS TO ALT.MUSIC.ALTERNATIVE ARCHIVES IF THERE'S ANY DOUBT views notwithstanding

If I'm sat down, esp in transport, my feet are always going and my head&hands too, but when standing it's probably more shoulders&hips, but it feels pretty holistic.

http://www.waltercedric.com/images/stories//gadget/OhMyBod-sex-accessoire-for-ipod.png

re ^^^:

http://butterscotch.com/show/Feel-The-Music-With-OhMiBod