How Our Minds Make Sound into Music

摘要

Whatever one may think of the headphones and earbuds that so many people wear while walking or exercising, we generally expect that through these devices they are listening to music, as if to draw sustenance and entertainment from it ever more continually. Whether for good or ill, whether absorbing schlock or high art, we seem to be living in a constant bath of sound, often delivered right to our eardrums. But why does music so fascinate us? Why are we so drawn to hear it and make it?