Search results for "Musical gesture"

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Knots, Music and DNA

2020

Musical gestures connect the symbolic layer of the score to the physical layer of sound. I focus here on the mathematical theory of musical gestures, and I propose its generalization to include braids and knots. In this way, it is possible to extend the formalism to cover more case studies, especially regarding conducting gestures. Moreover, recent developments involving comparisons and similarities between gestures of orchestral musicians can be contextualized in the frame of braided monoidal categories. Because knots and braids can be applied to both music and biology (they apply to knotted proteins, for example), I end the article with a new musical rendition of DNA.

MusicalVisual artGeneral Mathematics (math.GM)Mathematics::Category TheoryBraidFOS: MathematicsCategory theory; Composition; Musical gesture; Synesthesia; Visual artAlgorithmic compositionMathematics - General MathematicsSettore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniSettore INF/01 - InformaticaMusic psychologyMusical gestureSettore MAT/04 - Matematiche ComplementariMathematics::Geometric TopologyLinguisticsMathematical theorySettore MAT/02 - AlgebraCategory theory Composition Musical gesture Synesthesia Visual art SettoreComputer Science::SoundThe SymbolicComputer musicMusicSynesthesiaGestureCategory theoryComposition
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Effect of tempo and vision on interpersonal coordination of timing in dyadic performance

2015

Interpersonal coordination within a dyadic musical performance requires that the two musicians share a similar mental model of the music’s timing structure. In addition to non-fluctuating inter-onset-interval, matched mental models can be observed through corporeal articulations and apparent embodiment of musical features (i.e. synchronous body sway, mimicked or complementary gestures). Our aim was to examine the effect of tempo on interpersonal coordination within a musical dyad. Violin dyads performed three unfamiliar collaborative musical sequences in facing vs. non-facing conditions. Our hypotheses were that interpersonal coordination would be weakened in the non-facing conditions, and …

dyadembodiment in performancemusical gesture analysismotion capture systeminterpersonal coordinationmotion and gestureinter-onset-interval
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Sonic Strokes and Musical Gestures - The Difference between Musical Affect and Musical Emotion

2009

Musicological theories traditionally address the expressive powers of music within a framework of signification, in which musical affect is considered as a meaningful musical gesture. Consequently, affect is regarded as a property of the music instead of as a bodily reaction of the listener. I will outline a different conception of musical affect that takes into account the bodily nature of perception. I will introduce the notion of sonic stroke, i.e. a sound that induces affect in the listener. A sonic stroke thus is responsible for the occurrence of musical affect. By relating the notion of sonic stroke to musical gesture the differences between the two can be articulated, as well as how …

Affectmusical perceptionmusical gestureembodiment
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