Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: September 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780262122931
Subjects: Theory of music & musicology; Music; Music/Songbooks; Cognitive Psychology; Instruction & Study - Theory; Music / Theory; Musical perception; Physiological aspects; Psychological aspects
Description: "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.