The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music

Name: The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic USA
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Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 30. Dezember 2021

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The electronic medium allows any audible sound to be contextualized as music. This creates unique structural possibilities as spectrum, dynamics, space, and time become continuous dimensions of musical articulation. What we hear in electronic music ventures beyond what we traditionally characterize as musical sound and challenges our auditory perception, on the one hand, and our imagination, on the other. Based on an extensive listening study conducted over four years, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the cognitive processes involved in the experience of electronic music. It pairs artistic practice with theories from a range of disciplines to communicate how this music operates on perceptual, conceptual, and affective levels. Looking at the common and divergent ways in which our minds respond to electronic sound, it investigates how we build narratives from our experience of electronic music and situate ourselves in them.

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The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music provides an excellent model for students who wish to integrate perceptual or cognitive listening experiments with their personal practice. The book contextualizes the studies, conveys the necessary details to evaluate the experimental design, and draws conclusions that are driven both empirically and through practice. The extensive bibliography covers subjects and sources that are critical to electronic music scholarship, perception, listening, cognition, and experimental design. * Kerry L. Hagan, Lecturer, Digital Media and Arts Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland, and President of the International Computer Music Association * This book traces electronic music from its infancy to the present day, acknowledging many of the field's important figures and influential developments. Building on this foundation, it draws on novel research approaches which illuminate important areas, including insights into the relationships between electronic music and the listener, thus holding potential to inform not only future studies, but also the continuing development of electronic music's creation and consumption. * Tony Rigg, Music Industry Practitioner and Advisor, University of Central Lancashire, UK, and co-editor of The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music (2021) *

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List of Figures
Introduction
Overview of the Book
1. Defining Electronic Music
Early Years of Electronic Music
The Electronic Medium
Non-musical Sound
Birth of the Electronic Music Studio
A New Frontier
Electronic Music Nomenclature
The Medium is the Genre
Acousmatic Music
Electroacoustic Music
Broadening Horizons
2. Situating the Electronic Music Experience
Foundations of Musical Behavior
Evolutionary Perspectives
From Biology to Culture
The Material and Language of Music
Music and Emotion
Affect in Music
Experiential Idiosyncrasies of Electronic Music
The Composer, who is also a Listener
From Parameters to Instincts
Complexity of Listening
An Amalgamation of Languages
Threads of Communication in Electronic Music
The Poietic Thread
The Esthesic Thread
3. A Study on Listening Imagination
A Cognitive Approach
Experimental Studies on Electronic Music
"Talking about music is like..."
Stimuli
Birdfish (2012, 4'40")
Sound Design
Form
Element Yon (2011, 3'45")
Sound Design
Form
Christmas 2013 (2011, 2'16")
Sound Design
Form
Diegese (2013, 1'54")
Sound Design
Form
Touche pas (by Curtis Roads, 2009, 5'30")
Study Design
Preliminary Studies
Participants
Setup
Procedure
Initial Listening Session
General Impressions Task
Real-time Descriptors Exercise
Real-time Descriptors Task
Results
Data Visualizations
Single-timeline Dynamic Visualization
Multiple-timeline Visualization
Analysis Methods
Categorization of Descriptors
Comparative Analysis
Correspondence Analysis
Discourse Analysis
4. The Electronic Gesture
Events in the Environment
Environmental Sounds
Models of Mental Representation
Affordances
Gestures in Electronic Music
...is a meaningful narrative unit...
...operates within causal networks...
...coexists with other gestures in various temporal and spatial configurations...
...implies intentionality
5. Worldmaking in Electronic Music
Diegesis
An Interdisciplinary Contextualization of Diegesis
Coalescence of Mimesis and Diegesis
Presentationality
Narrativity
Diegetic Affordances and Affect
Music as A Diegetic Actor
Quoting Music within Music
A Diegetic Actor as Music: Electronic Music and Science Fiction
6. Tracing the Continuum
Domains of Experience
The Physical Domain
Awareness of the Physical Self
Stream Segregation
Habituation
The Semantic Domain
Effects of Semantic Context
Semantic Gestalts
Signs of Life
Contacts Between the Two Domains
Inside and Outside the Diegesis
Sense of Time
Experienced Listeners
Presence of the Composer in the Work
Case Study: Little Animals
Macro-scale Analysis
Gestural Layers
Organic and Environmental Sounds
Physical Causalities
Pitched and Droning Elements
Temporal Flow
Diegetic Disposition of the Listener
Coda
Acknowledgments
Bibliography

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