Filmmaker Greg Dukes explores the phenomenon of frisson. It is best described as a sudden rush or wave of emotions that some people experience when listening to an emotive piece of music. Frisson is ...

The couple on screen clutches and embraces, but the music that drifts over them is eerie, uneasy. Alone in a dark cinema, you feel a chill race up your spine. Walking home after a late night, you hear ...

Have you ever been listening to a great piece of music and felt a chill run up your spine? Or goosebumps tickle your arms and shoulders? The experience is called frisson (pronounced free-sawn), a ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Have you ever been listening to a great piece of music and felt a chill run up your spine? Or goosebumps tickle your arms and shoulders? The ...

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The couple on-screen clutch and embrace, but the music that drifts over them is eerie, uneasy. Alone in a dark theater, you feel a chill race up your spine. Walking home after a late night, you hear ...

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A piece of theatre that begins online and ends in a live, in-person performance, Frisson is both momentous and heartwarming, writes Joyce McMillan Lockdown changed our world in a myriad of ways; not ...