Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

Appendix 3.01 Survey of The Neurosciences and Music I

• Conference 2002

Title, Categ

ory

Aim

Mus. Material, Cultural Ref.

Technology & Procedure

Main focus of interest

Conclusion

33. Duckworth (254

-262)

Virtual music on the web

Cat

. 2

1:

Creative project

34. Rosenboom (263

-271)

Propositional music

Cat

. 2

1:

Creat

ive project

*35. Roads (272-281)

Perception of microsound

Cat

. 3: Complex sounds
Cat. 17: Sensory

-motor

Thought

-provoking paper

by a

microsound composer and scientist

36. Minciacchi (282

-301)

Translation of neurobiological data

Cat

. 2

1:

Creative proje

ct

Creating a website with tools that allow listeners to participate actively in the creation of music

Creating interactive, feedback

-based, sel

f-

organizing musical structures

Contributing to a theory of microsound: sound p

article

s

which last only a few milliseconds

Using biological information for the realization of music

Created online

CR:

---

Generative models of music based on measured

EEG waveforms and computer algorithms

CR:

---

Electronically synthesized new tones made up of stre

ams or clouds of sonic

particle

s

CR: Atonal Western

Various instrumentations of sound parameters, e.g. three pianos

CR:

---

Web

-based tools and virtual

instruments for creating music

Direct monitoring of biological phenomena

Ppaper

sound synt

hesis

techniques: granular and pulsar synthesis

Neurobiological data are converted into structures from which sound objects are generated

To create an imaginative,

on

going artistic experience

that builds community

Integration of perfor

mance,

com

position and

improvisation. Active imaginative listening

Preattentive and sub

liminal

perception. Liquid-

like or

cloud

-like structures of

microsound

To c

hallenge the classical

quest for universals in music

Creative project, blurring distinction bet

ween art and

gaming.

Creative project

”Foundations of music cognition extend far deeper than any musical theory dogma

. Ultimately, music is

rooted in the senso

-motoric

dynamics of the human nervous system”

(p. 278)

Creative project on the basis of neurobiological data