What is the name for the feeling of nostalgia, loneliness, eeriness and liminality that comes when listening to songs like subwoofer lullaby?
What is the name for the feeling of nostalgia, loneliness, eeriness and liminality that comes when listening to songs like subwoofer lullaby?
Subwoofer lullaby from Minecraft: https://youtu.be/Gpd85y_iTxY
Please note that I'm not referring to nostalgia from having played Minecraft a long time ago. The song felt this way since I heard it the first time.
Here's another song that has a similar feeling to it https://youtu.be/usjnkZVshLc
Is there such a concept as 'liminal music'?
It's not exactly the same as frisson, I think, but it still makes me feel goosebumps sometimes
I don't think the English language has a single word for it because it encompasses bits of different emotions. The closest single one I could think of might be "bittersweet".
The Minecraft piece always reminded me of Eric Satie's Gymnopédie #1 https://youtu.be/TL0xzp4zzBE?si=-w9omSS-Xn_tnsZB
I'm certain you've heard it before. You may find the Wikipedia page on the compositions interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnopédies?wprov=sfla1
Anyway, I think the word you're looking for is melancholy.
Sort of a vibrant or vivid melancholy, maybe? Some songs by certain groups do that to me also - that song, "remind me" by royksopp always brings on those feelings. I think that listening to music makes you feel like everything in your body is opening up a little, loosening and relaxing and decompressing.
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I'm not sure if there's a name for the feeling, but often, the reason we feel that way about certain pieces of music is because they feature minor keys instead of major keys.
Major keys = happy Minor keys = sad
That said, I don't think either of your examples are in minor keys.
In other Minecraft music news, this is pretty great.
Frission, maybe?
Just because you're making the same mistake I did for a number of years, frisson doesn't have a 2nd "i"
There's a German term for nostalgia for a place you've never been, fernweh. Perhaps that has some connection?
Path of the Wind from My Neighbour Totoro gives me a similar feeling.