Embodied music cognition and mediation technology / Marc Leman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leman, Marc, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Music--Physiological aspects.

Musical perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 297 p. ) ill., music ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Digital media handle music as encoded physical energy, but humans consider music in terms of beliefs, intentions, interpretations, experiences, evaluations, and significations. In this book, drawing on work in computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology, Marc Leman proposes an embodied cognition approach to music research that will help bridge this gap. Assuming that the body plays a central role in all musical activities, and basing his approach on a hypothesis about the relationship between musical experience (mind) and sound energy (matter), Leman argues that the human body is a biologically designed mediator that transfers physical energy to a mental level - engaging experiences, values, and intentions and, reversing the process, transfers mental representation into material form. He suggests that this idea of the body as mediator offers a promising framework for thinking about music mediation technology."--Jacket.

Contents:

Musical experience and signification

Paradigms of music research

Ecological conceptions

Corporeal articulations and intentionality

Corporeal articulations and imitation

Interaction with musical instruments

Search for and retrieval of music.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-277) and indexes.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-282-09654-0

0-262-25655-X

OCLC:

827324770