Can you be healed by a sound frequency? From sound baths to TikTok, a debate (gently) rages

2/18/22 Randall Roberts

Q asks: "Can MUSIC be healing?"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/can-you-be-healed-by-a-sound-frequency-from-sound-baths-to-tiktok-a-debate-gently-rages/ar-AAU2avN

^^^paywall

read here:

https://outline.com/WGNCAM

very interdesting

Excerpt:

For the Los Angeles-based Maejor and millions of others meditating to or creating so-called “frequency music” on YouTube, Spotify and TikTok, the frequency of 432 hertz, though, is more aligned with nature's patterns. As such, they say, when that root frequency activates the eardrums, it fills you with positive vibrations.

Prolonged listening to these 432-hertz tones, claim various believers, reduces stress, “detoxifies” cells and organs, eliminates fear and wipes out negativity. Some advocates of a different pitch-based system argue that its particular root tone “repairs DNA and brings positive transformation.” Other frequencies are said to bring love and compassion and allow the attuned to connect to a higher self.

These emergent beliefs are part of a long fascination with “pitch-correcting” the Western music scale. Over the past decade, the conversation has eased its way from academic and esoteric circles and onto social media and wellness platforms.

"Things that I used to talk about a few years ago that seemed very far out or woo-woo are now more normal," Maejor says.