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Recently, I've noticed that, especially in Christian music, sometimes a lonely sound occurs out of nowhere, only heard once throughout the whole song. I start to realize that it is usually near the beginning portions of a song.

These are the three songs that come off the top of my head.

"Delight," by Branch

Around 1:02. This lonely string sound used to give me chills so bad, it made me cringe every time I heard it. ...But I somehow loved it at the same time.

"I Have Been There," by Mark Schultz

Within 0:07-09. A rather quiet, but high sound. Out of my 6000+ songs, I've never heard this elsewhere.

"Love Life," by Aaron Benward

Almost RIGHT at 0:21. It sounds something like a piano, but I don't know why it's there.
By the way, I love the closing sequence so much. (When I was younger, this song used to make me feel depressed.)

I don't know how I should feel about posting this thread. I was drawn in by my experience with this, but nobody cares.

CedarBranch wrote:I don't know how I should feel about posting this thread. I was drawn in by my experience with this, but nobody cares.

The post has been up for a matter of hours, some people may not have even seen it yet.

hmm, I think you're mistaken a tiny bit

The first song I did hear a violin make that noise but I'm pretty sure it was just a mistake on the violinist's part, since it sounds like she was preparing a bow stroke but accidentally had the bow come into contact with her instrument when pulling back her arm to play, which can often create those kinds of sounds (as a cellist I do it sometimes myself, intentionally or not).

The second song was just the Guitarist moving their hands swiftly across the fretboard, which creates that kind of indescribable, weirdly pitched sound.

The third song... I actually don't know. But yeah, you'd be surprised at how often you hear those kinds of things in recordings - Small details that tend to not get noticed much in what seems like a "perfect" recording take. (Nowadays we have the technology to edit out said noises or even avoid them entirely with MIDI instruments, but meh.)

The chill sensation that you are feeling can possibly be attributed to ASMR, a phenomenon that occurs through sensation that is pleasant and can manifest in chills, or in the instance of sound, an literal eargasm. Many people pass it by as pseudo-science, but it is reminiscent of synesthesia, pretty much like a different version of this.

For sound in particular, it's called frisson, and it's something I experience myself commonly.