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Author : Marc Leman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2007-08-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 0262122936

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A proposal that an embodied cognition approach to music research—drawing on work in computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology—offers a promising framework for thinking about music mediation technology. Digital media handles 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. Leman proposes that, under certain conditions, the natural mediator (the body) can be extended with artificial technology-based mediators. He explores the necessary conditions and analyzes ways in which they can be studied. Leman outlines his theory of embodied music cognition, introducing a model that describes the relationship between a human subject and its environment, analyzing the coupling of action and perception, and exploring different degrees of the body's engagement with music. He then examines possible applications in two core areas: interaction with music instruments and music search and retrieval in a database or digital library. The embodied music cognition approach, Leman argues, can help us develop tools that integrate artistic expression and contemporary technology.

Author : Marc Leman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781138657403

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The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction captures a new paradigm in the study of music interaction, as a wave of recent research focuses on the role of the human body in musical experiences. This volume brings together a broad collection of work that explores all aspects of this new approach to understanding how we interact with music, addressing the issues that have roused the curiosities of scientists for ages: to understand the complex and multi-faceted way in which music manifests itself not just as sound but also as a variety of cultural styles, not just as experience but also as awareness of that experience. With contributions from an interdisciplinary and international array of scholars, including both empirical and theoretical perspectives, the Companion explores an equally impressive array of topics, including: Dynamical music interaction theories and concepts Expressive gestural interaction Social music interaction Sociological and anthropological approaches Empowering health and well-being Modeling music interaction Music-based interaction technologies and applications This book is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand human interaction with music from an embodied perspective.

Author : Marc Leman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0262337630

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A new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-reflective processes underlying interactions with music. The expressive moment is that point in time when we grasp a situation and respond quickly, even before we are aware of it. In this book, Marc Leman argues that expression drives this kind of interaction, and he proposes a general framework for understanding expressive interactions. He focuses on the dynamic, fast, and pre-reflective processes underlying our interactions with music—whether we are playing an instrument, dancing, listening, or using new interactive technologies. Music offers a well-established domain for studying these fast and interactive processes, and Leman argues that understanding the power of expressive interaction through music may help us understand cognitive processing in other domains, including language, human action coordination, human-animal interaction, and human-machine interaction. Leman regards expressive interactions with music as energizing and empowering. He argues that music is based on patterns that intervene with a reinforcing loop in the human brain, strengthening learning, motivation, and reward. He argues further that the reinforcing effect is influenced by the interaction flow, by fast processes that handle expressive qualities on the fly. Leman sets out the framework in which expressive interaction is situated, describing, among other things, a pragmatic model of communication in which the fundamental components are enactment and dynamics. He looks in more detail at the cognitive-motivational architecture, discussing sensorimotor and motivational schemes. Finally, he discusses applications for the concepts behind expressive motivation in such fields as sports, entertainment, rehabilitation, multimedia art, and music education.

Author : Enrique Tomás
Publisher : TU Wien Academic Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 3854480474

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This is a book about musical gestures: multiple ways to design instruments, compose musical performances, analyze sound objects and represent sonic ideas through the central notion of ‘gesture’. The writers share knowledge on major research projects, musical compositions and methodological tools developed among different disciplines, such as sound art, embodied music cognition, human-computer interaction, performative studies and artificial intelligence. They visualize how similar and compatible are the notions of embodied music cognition and the artistic discourses proposed by musicians working with ‘gesture’ as their compositional material. The authors and editors hope to contribute to the ongoing discussion around creative technologies and music, expressive musical interface design, the debate around the use of AI technology in music practice, as well as presenting a new way of thinking about musical instruments, composing and performing with them. The artistic research project ‘Embodied Gestures’ is coordinated by the Tangible Music Lab of the University of Art and Design Linz, and the Artifact-based Computing & User Research unit of the TU Wien. Publishing this book was possible thanks to the funding received from the Austrian Programme for Arts-based Research (FWF PEEK).

Author : Katya Alejandra Alvarez Molina
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
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Music has been present in human life, creating a social connectedness, originating changes in persons' minds and moods, and producing different reactions in the human body. These reactions depend on personal experiences, the body sense, and physical stimuli (auditory, visual, or tactile). For instance, unconsciously, when people listen to a song, they can move their feet in synchrony with the rhythm. To acquire music abilities, the synchronization between body and stimuli is fundamental, either for rhythm or melody. Nowadays, technology supports the acquisition of music skills through the interaction between users and devices and opens the possibility of enhancing music engagement and cognitive, motor, affective, and social skills. To date, people have their first contact with music through technologies such as video games (e.g., Guitar Hero, Rock Band). One of the advantages of video games as a learning tool is the freedom of developers to add, modify, or suppress certain stimuli. Therefore, a video game can create different interactions, movements, and sounds where the music guides the player to take a specific action. Understanding the relationship between music and video games will help design effective and efficient games for music learning purposes. However, what is less clear is what effects interactivity, movement, and sounds cause in music perception due to the stimuli emitted by video games. Therefore, there is a lack of connection between the design of video games and the embodied music cognition, where the cognitive, sensorimotor, social dispositions, and capabilities of human beings are sometimes not considered. The goal and leading research questions for this thesis are to explore how the different stimuli emitted by a music video game change the players' performance. Moreover, how game-elements of a video game can improve music learning and user experience. This thesis seeks to understand the body reaction of players while playing music video games using different stimuli and analyze the game elements and mechanics for music learning. Therefore, two music video games are presented, one game based on rhythms and one game based on pitch recognition. The thesis presents two case studies using the rhythm game to analyze players' reaction times and user experience with auditory, visual, or tactile stimuli. A case study compares the user experience between players using a video game and players using a web application for the pitch game. The results show that players' performance is based on the game-elements and not on the stimuli; however, auditory stimuli enhance their performance over other stimuli. Moreover, a possible learning effect was observed after some trials (lives) and was found a fatigue effect during the gameplay. Using adequate game elements and mechanics can engage users in the activity at hand. In conclusion, human perception in video games is mainly focused on what the game shows visually; however, other stimuli impact the players' performance. Designing music game-based learning must find a balance between the game elements and mechanics and music perception. Consequently, players would acquire music skills during the gameplay.

Author : Mariusz Kozak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190080213

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What is musical time? Where is it manifested? How does it enter into our experience, and how do we capture it in our analyses? A compelling approach among works on temporality, phenomenology, and the ecologies of the new sound worlds, Enacting Musical Time argues that musical time is itself the site of the interaction between musical sounds and a situated, embodied listener, created by the moving bodies of participants engaged in musical activities. Author Mariusz Kozak describes musical time as something that emerges when the listener enacts her implicit knowledge about "how music goes," from deliberate inactivity, to such simple actions as tapping her foot in time with the beat, to dancing in a way that engages her entire body. Kozak explores this idea in the context of modernist and postmodernist musical styles, where composers create unfamiliar and idiosyncratic temporal experiences, blur the line between spectatorship and participation, and challenge conventional notions of form. Basing his discussion on the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and on the ecological psychology of J. J. Gibson, Kozak examines different aspects of musical structure through the lens of embodied cognition and what phenomenologists call "lived time." A bold new theory derived from an unprecedented fusion of research perspectives, Enacting Musical Time will engage scholars across a range of disciplines, from music theory, music cognition, cognitive science, continental philosophy, and social anthropology.

Author : Micheline Lesaffre
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317219732

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The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction captures a new paradigm in the study of music interaction, as a wave of recent research focuses on the role of the human body in musical experiences. This volume brings together a broad collection of work that explores all aspects of this new approach to understanding how we interact with music, addressing the issues that have roused the curiosities of scientists for ages: to understand the complex and multi-faceted way in which music manifests itself not just as sound but also as a variety of cultural styles, not just as experience but also as awareness of that experience. With contributions from an interdisciplinary and international array of scholars, including both empirical and theoretical perspectives, the Companion explores an equally impressive array of topics, including: Dynamical music interaction theories and concepts Expressive gestural interaction Social music interaction Sociological and anthropological approaches Empowering health and well-being Modeling music interaction Music-based interaction technologies and applications This book is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand human interaction with music from an embodied perspective.

Author : Rolf Inge Godøy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135183627

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We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement–when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating it to our body movements, or form an image in our minds of body movements. 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.