The Sync Project

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MUSIC IS A FORCE. Music has been around for ages descending into different trends as it trickles down from one generation to the next carrying the same legendary title as it does today. From a cappella to zydeco, all music has continued to receive large audiences. Music is an attractive force. Music’s abilities are capable of surpassing the humanly possible efforts of “cheering someone up”, and is capable of evoking emotions at specific times whenever it is called upon. To humans, music is a gift wrapped privilege, yet human beings see music only as a toy that can be meddled with and fondled upon. Human beings unsympathetically adjust the sound of music as time passes in order to evolve the sound further and affect the emotional state of those …show more content…

Music therapy has been existent since World War I with the earliest musicians performing in hospitals for injured veterans. The musicians were able to lower the anxiety levels of the traumatized soldiers and calm down the post traumatic stress disorders portrayed by the soldiers. Doctor’s began to take notice of the improvement of patients and took music into consent for the improving conditions.
A more current project, the Sync Project, has been invented in order perfect the medication of music. The Sync Project is developing a relationship with some of the world’s best scientists and musicians. Together, the Sync project is developing a way for music to calm down the human body and do things like put the listener to sleep or in deep states of relaxation. In, “Sync Project launches UNWIND - personalized music to improve relaxation before sleep”, by Marko Ahtisaari, Ahtisaari says, “Recent research has shown that music affects the same neural pathways that are regulated by psychostimulants and other drugs”. Ahtisaari is one of the CEOs of the Sync project. Obviously music is a stimulant because it stimulates particular parts of a listener's brain that affect emotion and mood. For music to be able to affect a listener as deeply as it does, it is almost impossible for music to not be a …show more content…

He notes that music has the ability to speak where words fail. Gupta also speaks upon the aid music provides to parkinsonian patients. He says, “Parkinsonian patients would find that their tremor and their gait would steady when they listened to music” (Gupta). Parkinson's is a disease that affects the movement of a human being due to the tampering of the nervous system. If, music can aid in such a disease, imagine what else, if put to the correct use, music could possibly aid or even

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