Listener Rhythms

Listener Rhythms are those underlying percussions or melodies with which singers speak and connect with one another. These rhythms are constants and exist independent of their usage. For example, they can be employed to measure time, (i.e., the Rhythm of Peace).
Rhythms represent specific states of mind, or the feelings of the individual expressing themself through each rhythm. The listeners attune to rhythms that correspond with their moods but they can attune to other rhythms that better express their messages.
Unless one concentrated on attuning a certain rhythm, one's body would naturally choose the one that fit one's mood. Therefore, it was always a conscious decision to listen to a rhythm that did not match how one felt.
The Parshendi were synchronized by these rhythms. It enabled the listeners to sing, fight, and move in unison with one or another of the rhythms. It was even difficult to be late for any meeting by accident.
Dullform and slaveform cannot attune the rhythms.
The different songs are sung to different rhythms. The rhythms of Power sound and feel different to the more well known rhythms which have similar uses. The rhythm for the Listener Song of Listing is not one of the emotive rhythms; the Parshendi have certain rhythms for those chants.JordanCon 6, Atlanta, GA, 4/16/14
Larkins can also hear rhythms.
==Known Rhythms==
==Descriptions==
One attuned to the Rhythm of the Lost - a quiet yet violent beat with sharp, separated notes - remember the fallen.
==Rhythms of Odium==
When a Voidspren enters a Parshendi gemheart and creates a form of power, the Parshendi starts to hear other, new rhythms. These rhythms are of Odium and are only attunable by Regals and Fused. 
Rhythms of Odium are often correlated to a natural rhythm of Roshar, but are stronger or more destructive. These include Agony, Conceit, Craving, Fury, and Spite. 
Once a singer becomes able to hear these rhythms, they can no longer attune the natural ones. The only exception is if the singer is a Radiant or Fused.
==Notes==
There is Connection between the listeners and the songs of Roshar. They can pick up a Rhythm when there's actually not enough of it, even in a sentence, because of the Intent of the Rhythm and what another is hearing. They can hear a Rhythm even if it's only a couple words being said, that one couldn't learn, if one was just a human listening.Starsight Release Party, Orem, UT, 11/26/19
There is also the pure Rhythm of Roshar about which readers still know very little.YouTube Spoiler Stream 3, 12/16/21
==References==
Category:Parshendi