Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices
Edited by Kathleen Coessens
Embodied
experience and sensorial understandings in Western music
The Western history of aesthetics is characterised by tension between theory
and practice. Musicians listen, play, and then listen more profoundly in order to
play differently, adapt the body, and sense the environment. They become deeply
involved in the sensorial qualities of music practice. Artistic practice refers
to the original meaning of aesthetics—the senses. Whereas Baumgarten and Goethe
explored the relationship between sensibility and reason, sensation and
thinking, later philosophers of aesthetics deemed the sensorial to be confused
and unreliable and instead prioritised a cognitive or objective approach.
Written by authors from the fields of philosophy, composition, performance, and artistic practice, Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices repositions aesthetics as a domain of the sensible and explores the interaction between artists, life, and environment. Aesthetics becomes a field of sensorial and embodied experience involving temporal and spatial influences, implicit knowledge, and human characteristics.
Contributors: Kathleen Coessens
(Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Orpheus Institute), Tim Ingold (University of
Aberdeen), Michaël Levinas (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de
Paris), Fabien Lévy (Hochschule für Musik Detmold), Lasse Thoresen (Norwegian
Academy of Music), Vanessa Tomlinson (Queensland Conservatorium of Music),
Salomé Voegelin (University of the Arts London)
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed
Peer-Reviewed Content).
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Format: Edited volume - ebook
192 pages
Illustrated b/w
ISBN: 9789461662910
Publication: July 15, 2019
Series: Orpheus Institute Series
Languages: English