Body and space refer to vital and interrelated dimensions in the experience of sounds and music. Sounds have an overwhelming impact on feelings of bodily presence and inform us about the space we experience. Even in situations where visual information is artificial or blurred, such as in virtual environments or certain genres of film and computer games, sounds may shape our perceptions and lead to surprising new experiences. This book discusses recent developments in a range of interdisciplinary fields, taking into account the rapidly changing ways of experiencing sounds and music, the consequences for how we engage with sonic events in daily life and the technological advancements that offer insights into state-of-the-art methods and future perspectives. Topics range from the pleasures of being locked into the beat of the music, perception–action coupling and bodily resonance, and affordances of musical instruments, to neural processing and cross-modal experiences of space and pitch. Applications of these findings are discussed for movement sonification, room acoustics, networked performance, and for the spatial coordination of movements in dance, computer gaming and interactive artistic installations.
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List of figuresList of tablesSeries editors’ prefaceNotes on contributors1 Introduction: structured sounds in bodily and spatial dimensionsClemens WöllnerPart IBodily movements, gestures and sonification2 The empowering effects of being locked into the beat of the musicMarc Leman, Jeska Buhmann and Edith Van Dyck3 Exploring music-related micromotionAlexander Refsum Jensenius4 Cross-modal experience of musical pitch as space and motion: current research and future challengesZohar Eitan5 Gestural qualities in music and outward bodily responsesClemens Wöllner and Jesper Hohagen6 Aesthetics of sonification: taking the subject-positionPaul Vickers, Bennett Hogg and David WorrallPart IISound design, instrumental affordances and embodied spatial perception7 Instruments, voices, bodies and spaces: towards an ecology of performanceW. Luke Windsor8 Sonic spaces in movies: audiovisual metaphors and embodied meanings in sound designKathrin Fahlenbrach9 The colourful life of timbre spaces: timbre concepts from early ideas to meta-timbre space and beyondChristoph Reuter and Saleh Siddiq10 ‘Music as fluid architecture’: investigating core regions of the spatial brainChristiane NeuhausPart IIIPresence and immersion in networked and virtual spaces11 Music as artificial environment: spatial, embodied multimodal experiencePeter Lennox12 Music perception and performance in virtual acoustic spacesJude Brereton13 Space and body in sound art: artistic explorations in binaural audio augmented environmentsMartin Rumori14 Embodiment and disembodiment in networked music performanceGeorg Hajdu15 Presence through soundMark GrimshawIndex
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ISBN
9781472485403
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2017-04-26
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Routledge
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612 gr
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234 mm
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156 mm
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U, G, 05, 01
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Engelsk
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326

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Biographical note

Clemens Wöllner is Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. His research focuses on performance, multimodal perception and the acquisition of expert skills, employing a range of interdisciplinary methods including motion capture, eye-tracking and physiological measures. He has published widely on topics related to musical conducting, perception–action coupling, human movement, imagery and attention in pianists, empathy and research reflexivity.