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Body Music: Phenomenologies of Sonic Gesture
Paperback
Series: Sonics, Book 11
DanceElectronicMusic Reference
Publisher Price: $39.95
ISBN13: 9781913380410
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Published: Jul 20 2027
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.25
Language: English
Body Music: Phenomenologies of Sonic Gesture is a musician's account of the relationship between corporeal movement and musical sound.
It examines the conscious and subconscious strategies behind musical expression, and ways in which sound and gesture become the medium of intersubjectivity with the spectator. It looks at the design of technologies that break out of the binary brittleness of the digital to capture subtleties of human movement and create expressive digital musical instrument systems.
Drawing from the overlapping fields of phenomenological philosophy, cognitive neuroscience and post-humanist anthropology, the book unwraps the performer as materially and digitally entangled with the sonic. The book joins a growing literature in music and gesture and embodied music cognition and responds to challenges posed by the 'performative turn' in music theory and aesthetics. It connects these insights with fields of cognitive science and embodied human-computer interaction (HCI) to offer a performer-centric approach to developing new sonic technologies. This becomes then a humanistic response to the challenges posed by artificial intelligence.
Theory and practice are interwoven, with vignettes describing seminal concert performances by musicians like Michel Waisvisz, Laetitia Sonami, and Elaine Mitchener. These stories, drawn from personal musical experience, on tour and in the concert hall, situate us in a musical life at the heart of experimental, avant-garde practice.
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