Self-report measurement of segmentation, mimesis and perceived emotions in acousmatic electroacoustic music

2014

Acousmatic Electroacoustic Music is a form of art in which any sound is regarded to have the potential to be used as a basic unit to build a musical discourse. This study addresses the measurement of three important aspects of perception of Acousmatic Electroacoustic Music: Segmentation, which is the separation of the audio stream into units that could have meaning by themselves or that could be part of larger meaningful structures; Mimesis, which in this context is defined as the perceptual ability of identifying a possible and meaningful source that produced a sound and the action that produced it; Perception of Emotions, which shapes the meaning of perceived events. This document reports…