If Music Were Just Noise

Imagine if music didn’t sound good to you. Not just some music, but all music. Now imagine that the world reacts to your condition by assuming that you’re either an idiot or a killjoy. Welcome to the world occupied by sufferers of amusia, a neurological condition under which subjects are “profoundly impaired in recognizing melodies and in pitch discrimination, unable to distinguish between adjacent tones and semitones.”