Embodied music cognition and mediation technology / Marc Leman.
2008
ML3800 .L57 2008eb
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Title
Embodied music cognition and mediation technology / Marc Leman.
Author
Leman, Marc, 1958-
ISBN
9780262256551 (electronic bk.)
026225655X (electronic bk.)
9780262122931
0262122936
026225655X (electronic bk.)
9780262122931
0262122936
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) : illustrations, music
Call Number
ML3800 .L57 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
781/.11
Summary
"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.
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