So what's the big deal about music?

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Haha, nice thread.

I think there are different types of aspies. I definitely started out belonging to the logical /maths/science aspies and i thought music was stupid until like 15. I don't think people appreciate how hard being communicative and liking so many nonsensical things like music is for me, i really had to make an effort to change.

Music is my best friend. If I didn't have music I would feel alone, depressed and off-center. When people say they don't like music I simply cannot understand them.

on a documentary about oliver sacks, i saw him interview this woman who was born without the genes which code for comprehension of musical tone/rhythm/melodic contour. she was literally tone-deaf. what a diminished and desaturated world she lived in.

I am not a big music person. My radio is perma-tuned to NPR.

^^^
me too. but i couldn't help but notice that you must not have too many neighbors who share your choice of NPR.

I couldn't imagine living without music. I think I'd top myself, seriously.
The reason why I love music (instrumental electronic and psychedelic music) so much is because it makes me feel connected to the world, the harmonies are beautiful and the sounds are so interesting. Each song is an epic journey to me, and a magical one.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1J79dQA634[/youtube]

If that's all I'd been exposed to, I probably wouldn't like music very much either. You might find a style you like somewhere. I remember one lady told me that music hadn't impinged on her at all until she heard punk rock. I hated music until the Merseybeat thing in the early 1960s.

I can't explain what the big deal is about music. I don't understand in scientific terms why people (self included) go for certain rhythmic and tonal sounds. Even when you strip out all the fakes who pretend to like the latest fashionable record just to fit in with the herd, there's still a lot of genuine interest left. One description that helped a bit was that music used to be like paintings - it represented aspects of the environment, so that just as a painting represents the sight of a mammoth, a piece of early music might have represented the sound of a mammoth. The similarity is unclear because music has become much more abstract than painting. But the theory creates more questions than it answers.

I love to listen to music.
Music is an important tool to take my mind of things and I get completely carried away while listening to it.
I wish I had the ability to make music myself or sing but unfortanetely I have no creative talents whatsoever.