Abstracts
Abstract
What does music signify? And how do listeners make sense of music as a collection of sounding stimuli? A common way is to study the structure of the music, conceiving of music as a self-reflective system with elements that refer mainly to themselves. This is a position that deals with music in computational terms relying on symbols that can be manipulated at a virtual level of imagery, without any connection to the music as it sounds. Music, however, is also a temporal and sounding art. It can be described in acoustic terms, providing a totally objective rendition of the sonorous articulation through time. As such, there is a major distinction between “in time” and “outside of time” descriptions of the music, with the former relying on the first hand sounding stimuli and the latter on second-order symbolic replicas of the sounds.
Keywords:
- Musical Sense-Making,
- Perceptual Immediacy,
- Symbolic Representation,
- Music as Structure,
- Experience,
- Computation
Résumé
Quel sens doit-on attribuer à la musique? Comment peut-on comprendre la musique comme un ensemble de stimuli sonores? Une manière largement utilisée est d’étudier la structure de la musique et de concevoir la musique comme un système clos avec des éléments qui font référence primairement à eux-mêmes. C’est une position qui traite la musique en termes computationels en considérant des symboles qui peuvent être traités à un niveau imagé virtuel, sans connection avec la musique comme ensemble sonore qui résonne en temps réel. Or, en tant que phénomène temporel et sonore la musique peut aussi être décrite en termes d’acoustique, de manière à fournir une description objective de l’articulation sonore à travers le temps. C’est donc qu’il existe une distinction majeure entre une description « en temps » et une description « en dehors du temps » : la première a besoin de stimuli sonores immédiats, alors que la deuxième se penche sur des répliques symboliques qui tiennent lieu de sons.
Mots-clés :
- Signification musicale,
- immédiateté perceptuelle,
- représentation symbolique,
- musique comme structure,
- experience,
- computation
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