According to researchers at Manchester University, music fans are stimulating part of the inner ear known as the sacculus, which responds to the beat in music.
It even pulses colorfully to the beat of music, and can be set to flash on and off when you get Twitter or Facebook notification.
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Shimi, a musical companion developed by Georgia Tech's Center for Music Technology, recommends songs, dances to the beat and keeps the music pumping based on listener feedback.
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No biggie though, as the meatier features are the beat sequence and music-pad sections.
Yes graphics, most of the programs that play MP3 files also come with "visualization" software that produce colorful on-screen shapes in reaction to the beat of the music.
Take traditional African instruments, electrify them and set them to a dance beat that resembles club music, electronica or trance.
With their colourful flowing robes, fusion of traditional African music and jazz and contagious beat, they even dedicated a song to the godfather of world music, Peter Gabriel.
Regardless of the beat's source, music historian Peter Guralnick says that Diddley made it big enough for everyone.
There are only a few moments where anything like a beat intrudes, yet the music is accessible and even intermittently catchy.
From midnight until well past sunrise, the crowd of 400 danced shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, to music with a beat so driving it became hypnotic.
While hardly as festive without the favored Japanese, some sections of fans stayed on their feet and danced to music and the beat of drums and horns.
He put everybody on a different beat, a different style of music.
Listening to music with a driving beat made the time endurable.
Because this patch of Soho, and particularly Denmark St, has long been the beating heart - and the heart of the beat - of London's music scene.
Once inside, he gyrates to the booming beat of the deejay's music, revels in the dotings of a gaggle of long-legged fashion models and poses obligingly for every cell phone camera that is thrust into his face.
After almost a minute, the track brings in a clipped horn section and a fleet, rapid beat, a bit like Chicago Steppers music blended with Earth, Wind and Fire.
The project is called New Music 20x12 which covers a wide range of genres from contemporary classical, folk and opera in Scotland and Northern Ireland to bell ringing, beat boxing, jazz and brass band music in England and Wales.
Then I heard music coming from the direction of the main port, at first only the stuttering beat of bass notes, then, as I walked toward the music, the Turkic twang of a bouzouki.
Today was also the day that the mood music moved from the pessimistic drum beat of the opening days to a more determined rhythm around solutions and how to move forward.
This is what makes urban Gabonese music unique, responsive and a genuine beat of Africa's true heart.
Justin Bieber is already king of the music world, social media and the Tiger Beat crowd.
Scott's music doesn't lay so easily in the beat, as one might expect from a drummer.
And finding just the right beat isn't difficult, as a lot of popular music falls within the optimum tempo range and most other musical genres also have music in that range, Dr. Karageorghis says.
Because the video is so much part of what has made the song a hit, he took 2, 000 image from the video and attached them to the beat sequences, so that the images swap in sync with the music, even though all of it is in constant recombination.
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These are seasoned music lovers - many with families - who want more than beat-driven good time tracks to groove to.
If you prefer your music to have a pounding four-to-the-floor beat then head to the cavernous Berghain in Friedrichshain, where techno-heads party with hedonistic abandon.
When listening to music, users can experience smooth migrating vibration sensations that change with the beat of a song.
He sang smoothly, at the very top of his falsetto range, over the music, which turned into a series of synth chords over a scuffling beat.
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