Musical fragmentation

Musical Fragmentation investigates the aesthetics and pleasures of musical rhythms and grooves that are experienced as fragmented or as related to machines.

About the project

A special focus is directed towards sample-based music, cut-and-paste and glitch aesthetics, and other experimental music expressions.

The aim is to explore how we as listeners make meaning out of musical fragmentation and machine rhythms and how these experiences are related to cognitive processes.

Other focus areas include the production and reception of complex rhythms; the perceptual violation of expectations when listening to music, and the cognitive restructuring of rhythmic flow; musical samples’ ability to stretch beyond the perceptual "now" to historical narratives and to generate a "changing same" through repetition; and  the sociocultural and legal implications of playing with the tangibility of time.

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Published Jan. 24, 2025 1:18 PM - Last modified Jan. 24, 2025 1:18 PM