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Gestural techniques in music include bows and swings, hand signals, facial expressions, and body movements, enhancing the performance's emotional and dynamic quality. Gesture in music theory involves dynamics, tempo, articulation, and phrasing, forming expressive units that provide depth to compositions and performances.
With a theory of musical gesture, I address our embodied access to musical meaning—ironically, an arena highly favored by New Musicologists, who appar-ently do not sense any contradiction between essentialized meaning in the body and essentialist meaning in a musical work.
The concept of musical gestures encompasses a large territory stretching from details of sound-production to more global emotive and aesthetic images of music, and also include considerations of cultural-stylistic vs. more universal modes of expression.
5 gru 2016 · Placing a performing body in partnership with interactive video and acousmatic sound (sometimes in a controlling relationship, sometimes in opposition) reveals to us new insights about both the nature of bodily gesture in performance, and the many roles that technology can play in contemporary music.
8 lis 2010 · Though the relationship of touch and sound is central to music performance, and audio-tactile metaphors are pertinent to musical discourse, few empirical studies have investigated systematically how musical parameters such as pitch height, loudness, timbre and their interactions affect auditory–tactile metaphorical mappings.
Gliss can send a number of different control signals over WiFi, including the orientation (pitch, roll and yaw) of your phone, a multitouch gesture‑detection system on the screen, a number of buttons and sliders, and the ability to send sharp movements such as drum hits.
We may think of two main categories of music-related gestures: sound-producing gestures, meaning gestures that produce sound on an instrument, and sound-accompanying gestures, meaning gestures that listeners make to music.
