Does time and timing matter?
Music is well known for its ability to engage, yet the nature of this engagement remains elusive. This project explores aspects of rhythm, temporality, and meaning in musical engagement, such as listening and performing. We work from various research angles, including musical sense-making and ethics, absorption in musical performance, spatiality and immersion, and relational interaction.
Methodologies
Methodologies are drawn from music studies, philosophy – phenomenology in particular – 4E cognition, media studies, music technology, music psychology, and affect theory. Work in this project unveils how different modes of engagement and absorption are core facets of musical experience and can lead to novel insights into human perception and action.
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The vitality and affective potential of the live concert experience is a result of rich, cross-sensory interactions and varied participatory practices. The complexity of such entanglements has recently led philosophers to argue for an enactive, affordance-based approach that interrogates a variety of perceptual and sensory possibilities inherent in aesthetic experiences. Further, Shaun Gallagher's recent addition of the 4As (Affect, Agency, Affordance, Autonomy) to the 4Es (Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, Extended) for clarifying mind–world relations seem to have potent explanatory power for these kinds of encounters. Building on such curre