Full Description
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.
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Series editors' preface
Notes on contributors
1 Introduction: structured sounds in bodily and spatial dimensions
Clemens Wöllner
Part I
Bodily movements, gestures and sonification
2 The empowering effects of being locked into the beat of the music
Marc Leman, Jeska Buhmann and Edith Van Dyck
3 Exploring music-related micromotion
Alexander Refsum Jensenius
4 Cross-modal experience of musical pitch as space and motion: current research and future challenges
Zohar Eitan
5 Gestural qualities in music and outward bodily responses
Clemens Wöllner and Jesper Hohagen
6 Aesthetics of sonification: taking the subject-position
Paul Vickers, Bennett Hogg and David Worrall
Part II
Sound design, instrumental affordances and embodied spatial perception
7 Instruments, voices, bodies and spaces: towards an ecology of performance
W. Luke Windsor
8 Sonic spaces in movies: audiovisual metaphors and embodied meanings in sound design
Kathrin Fahlenbrach
9 The colourful life of timbre spaces: timbre concepts from early ideas to meta-timbre space and beyond
Christoph Reuter and Saleh Siddiq
10 'Music as fluid architecture': investigating core regions of the spatial brain
Christiane Neuhaus
Part III
Presence and immersion in networked and virtual spaces
11 Music as artificial environment: spatial, embodied multimodal experience
Peter Lennox
12 Music perception and performance in virtual acoustic spaces
Jude Brereton
13 Space and body in sound art: artistic explorations in binaural audio augmented environments
Martin Rumori
14 Embodiment and disembodiment in networked music performance
Georg Hajdu
15 Presence through sound
Mark Grimshaw
Index
