It's often hard to know exactly how music of any kind may affect someone.

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Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable--and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint.

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"If you provide them with much more sophisticated material like letters, printed material, music, or any kind of very highly structured material, you realise that their peaks of ability come out, " said Dr Mottron.

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If you want a taste of the kind of music that helped make the festival such a sensation, visit Austin during any other month of the year.

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So far, the major labels have been unwilling to let their music be distributed on podcasts, which don't have any kind of digital-rights management scheme that prevents users from redistributing the files.

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This kind of plan is music to the ears of not just the fossil fuel industry but also to any energy intensive manufacturers.

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