Time and the Warm Body: A Musical Perspective on the Construction of TimeThis study deals with time and with music, and the link between the two is the suggestion that music is a modeling of the way we construct time. Time the now, duration, succession and order of succession; the past, the future is seen as a resource for managing systemic disequilibrium and as the evolutionary elaboration of the now. As organic dynamical systems humans maintain themselves by means of self-regulatory actions, nows, and these nows are proposed as feeding off a pre-temporal, interindividually accessed energy in nature, an ongoing cosmic proto-present. Speech is a way out of sensory immediacy and a way into a complex shared world where coordination and planning take place away from the distractions of the present as given by the senses. Music is presented as one of a group of behaviors comprising the arts and games that evolved in parallel with language to compensate for its abstractness. Language tends to the complexly abstract and music favors the complex, sensorially concrete: like speech, music operates on a synthetic plane, but provides synthetic occasions for sensory immediacy at a level of complexity to match that of language. |
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Time and the Warm Body: A Musical Perspective on the Construction of Time David Burrows Limited preview - 2007 |
Time and the Warm Body: A Musical Perspective on the Construction of Time David L. Burrows No preview available - 2007 |
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action activity African American music associated awareness balance basilar membrane beat biotemporal body/mind brain cellist cello cognitive complex composer concepts configuration consciousness construction continues culture dance defined disequilibrium duration dynamical systems effect emergence emotion energy entities everyday evolved example feeling flow foundational level function going and stabilizing happening human hypothesis Ian Cross immediacy individual involved J. S. Bach keep going kinesthesia landscape language layers meaning memory meter mobility Morton Feldman move movement Mozart music models musical experience musical mindscape musicians narrative Nelson Goodman neuronal now-acts now-past-future organism organism's oscillations participants past and future perceptual performers and listeners phrase physical pitch pitch-class polyphony present proto-present range relation relatively rhythm Sarabande scheme sensations sense sensory shaped simultaneously sound space spatial specious present speech spiral succession suggest survival sustained Symphony synchrony temporal territory timbre timeline timespans tion tone