Expressive Moment
Subtitle: How Interaction  Shapes Human Empowerment
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780262034937
Subjects: Music, psychological aspects; Music, physiological aspects; Expression
Description: "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."--Publisher's website.