Experience as cognition: musical sense-making and the ‘in-time/ outside-of-time’ dichotomy

• Authors: Mark Reybrouck
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Musical sense-making relies on two distinctive strategies: tracking the moment-to-moment history of the actual unfolding and recollecting actual and previous sounding events in a kind of synoptic overview. Both positions are not opposed but complement each other. The aim of this contribution, therefore, is to provide a comprehensive framework that provides both conceptual and operational tools for coping with the sounds. Five major possibilities are proposed in this regard: (i) the concepts of perspective and resolution, which refer to the distance the listener takes with respect to the sounding music and the fine-grainedness of his/her discriminative abilities; (ii) the continuous/discrete dichotomy which conceives of the music as one continuous flow as against a division in separate and distinct elements; (iii) the in time/outside-of-time distinction, with the former proceeding in real time and the latter proceeding outside of the time of unfolding; (iv) the deictic approach to musical sense-making, which conceives of an act of mental pointing to the music, and (v) the levels of processing, which span a continuum between primitive sensory reactivity to actual sounding stimuli and high-level symbolic processing.

Keywords

EN

experience; sense-making; coping behaviour; continuous-discrete; in-time/outside of time; deixis and mental pointing; real-time listening

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 19
• Pages: 53-80

Dates

published

2019-12-31

Contributors

author

Mark Reybrouck

• Musicology Research Group, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium IPEM, Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies, Ghent, Belgium

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9237-1017

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DOI

10.14746/ism.2019.19.4