The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music

Contents

• List of Figures
• Introduction Overview of the Book
• 1. Defining Electronic Music Early Years of Electronic Music The Electronic Medium Non-musical Sound Birth of the Electronic Music Studio A New Frontier Electronic Music Nomenclature The Medium is the Genre Acousmatic Music Electroacoustic Music Broadeni
• 2. Situating the Electronic Music Experience Foundations of Musical Behavior Evolutionary Perspectives From Biology to Culture The Material and Language of Music Music and Emotion Affect in Music Experiential Idiosyncrasies of Electronic Music The Compos
• 3. A Study on Listening Imagination A Cognitive Approach Experimental Studies on Electronic Music "Talking about music is like..." Stimuli Birdfish (2012, 4'40") Sound Design Form Element Yon (2011, 3'45") Sound Design Form Christmas 2013 (2011, 2'16") S
• 4. The Electronic Gesture Events in the Environment Environmental Sounds Models of Mental Representation Affordances Gestures in Electronic Music ...is a meaningful narrative unit... ...operates within causal networks... ...coexists with other gestures i
• 5. Worldmaking in Electronic Music Diegesis An Interdisciplinary Contextualization of Diegesis Coalescence of Mimesis and Diegesis Presentationality Narrativity Diegetic Affordances and Affect Music as A Diegetic Actor Quoting Music within Music A Dieget
• 6. Tracing the Continuum Domains of Experience The Physical Domain Awareness of the Physical Self Stream Segregation Habituation The Semantic Domain Effects of Semantic Context Semantic Gestalts Signs of Life Contacts Between the Two Domains Inside and O
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography