4. Practice-based Research

b)  Relationship of Gesture to Communicative Authenticity in Performance 

 

William Westney, Kristoffer Jensen,  Cynthia M. Grund

 

William Westney, Cynthia M. Grund:

 

What does an audience "get" when it experiences a performance as genuine?

 

• Participation in direct performer-audience communication through music might be one suggestion.
• Another possibility is that the audience perceives the performer's commitment to the music itself and that this commitment infuses the performance with a kind of integrity. In this latter scenario, the notion of communication seems inappropriate - or at least less-than-adequate - as a means of characterizing what is going on.
     In this project we explore this aspect of the performer-audience dynamic against the backdrop provided by
  • reflections on the insights won during Westney’s 25 years of research within the evolving laboratory provided by his Un-Master Classes; and
  • Grund’s suggestion that listening in the musical context be characterized as a species of counterfactual hearing.
    

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Kristoffer Jensen: Description on the way.

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Institute of Philosophy,  Education and the Study of Religions   Research Director for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound and  Editor and Webmaster for www.soundmusicresearch.org: Cynthia M. Grund cmgrund@ifpr.sdu.dk     Projects   (For descriptions, please click on the the tabs at the top of the page.)   1.Understanding Music through Modern Technology a) Recognizing Music b) Recognition of Expressive Styles in Music Performance c) Autonomous Agents – An Accompanist in VR d) The Composition and Its Role in the Ensemble 2. Intermediality 3. Learning through Music a) Music Communication b) Children's Knowledge Creation with Intelligent Agents in Music Education - Understanding for Optimizing Motivations c) Adaptable Interfaces & Augmented Avatar - Introducing Tools  for the Disabled and Musicians in VR d) Community Singing and/or Ideology 4. Practice-based Research a) Analysis and Implementation of Practice-Based Research b)  Relationship of Gesture to Communicative Authenticity in Performance  c) Musical Implications of the Work of Pragmatist Philosophers James, Dewey and Peirce d) Employing the Methods of Discourse Narrative to Support Interpretive Choices Faced by the Practicing Musician e) Soundmapping the Genes f) A Program of Practice-based Research Designed to Examine Listener Reaction to Olivier Messiaens Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus 5. Selective Bibliography