Extremely fast music can flip racing time into a congealed stillness

Evidence

The effect of such music on the hearer can be thoroughly ambivalent: for example, in her book, Teenage Wasteland, Donna Gaines writes that “thrash [a closely related variety of speed metal—H. R.] is so fast it actually calms you down; it’s relaxing, like Ritalin,” and, regarding the perception of time in the techno scene, Barbara Volkswein reports the effect of a “flipping over” (Umschlagen) of the experience of racing time into a feeling that time is congealing and even standing still that will be central to my general theory of social acceleration. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 165

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘flipping over’ of racing time into congealed standing-still time is flagged as central to Rosa’s theory of acceleration. Worth chasing how that mechanism is developed.
• XREF: Echoes the soundscape/silence book’s material on how extreme acoustic or kinesthetic intensity can produce an opposite-state experience; connects to noise research and to the paradox that overwhelming speed creates stasis. — connects to: Subjective duration, not physical duration, governs rhythm perception in music — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1494; Composers can blur a musical event’s perceived timing by manipulating harmonic-series membership

Broader Connections

• Subjective duration, not physical duration, governs rhythm perception in music #qualifies (0.75) — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1494
• Composers can blur a musical event’s perceived timing by manipulating harmonic-series membership #expands (0.70)