Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond: Multimodal Explorations

Clemens Wöllner is Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. His research focuses on performance, multimodal perception and the acquisition of expert skills, employing a range of interdisciplinary methods including motion capture, eye-tracking and physiological measures. He has published widely on topics related to musical conducting, perception–action coupling, human movement, imagery and attention in pianists, empathy and research reflexivity.

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Series editors’ preface

Notes on contributors

1 Introduction: structured sounds in bodily and spatial dimensions

Clemens Wöllner

Part I

Bodily movements, gestures and sonification

2 The empowering effects of being locked into the beat of the music

Marc Leman, Jeska Buhmann and Edith Van Dyck

3 Exploring music-related micromotion

Alexander Refsum Jensenius

4 Cross-modal experience of musical pitch as space and motion: current research and future challenges

Zohar Eitan

5 Gestural qualities in music and outward bodily responses

Clemens Wöllner and Jesper Hohagen

6 Aesthetics of sonification: taking the subject-position

Paul Vickers, Bennett Hogg and David Worrall

Part II

Sound design, instrumental affordances and embodied spatial perception

7 Instruments, voices, bodies and spaces: towards an ecology of performance

W. Luke Windsor

8 Sonic spaces in movies: audiovisual metaphors and embodied meanings in sound design

Kathrin Fahlenbrach

9 The colourful life of timbre spaces: timbre concepts from early ideas to meta-timbre space and beyond

Christoph Reuter and Saleh Siddiq

10 ‘Music as fluid architecture’: investigating core regions of the spatial brain

Christiane Neuhaus

Part III

Presence and immersion in networked and virtual spaces

11 Music as artificial environment: spatial, embodied multimodal experience

Peter Lennox

12 Music perception and performance in virtual acoustic spaces

Jude Brereton

13 Space and body in sound art: artistic explorations in binaural audio augmented environments

Martin Rumori

14 Embodiment and disembodiment in networked music performance

Georg Hajdu

15 Presence through sound

Mark Grimshaw

Index