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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.
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.
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.
The term sound-facilitating gesture is used to cover different types of musical gestures that are not directly involved in sound production, but still play an important part in shaping the resultant sound.
18 gru 2009 · Musical Gestures is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sound and movement. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fundamental issues of this subject, drawing on ideas, theories and methods from disciplines such as musicology, music perception, human movement science, cognitive psychology, and computer science.
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.
1 sty 2009 · Musical Gestures is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sound and movement. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fundamental issues of this...
