The Flux Between Sounding and Sound - Towards a Relational Understanding of Music as Embodied Action

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Cover of Contemporary Music Review

Cover of Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 25, Nos. 1–2: Bodily Instruments and Instrumental Bodies (2006).

Abstract

In this article I consider implications for the body inherent in two aspects of contemporary musical practice: normative and computer-assisted. I separate music into bodily action and resulting vibration, or the act of sounding and the material of sound. From this ground, I examine the field for an understanding of music that questions the exclusive role of listening in musical experience.

Published in Contemporary Music Review, Volume 25, Issue 1-2: Bodily Instruments and Instrumental Bodies, 2006, pp. 37-46.