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From Program Music to Sonification: Representation and the Evolution of Music and Language
From Program Music to Sonification: Representation and the Evolution of Music and Language
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Taylor, Stephen
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Research into the origins of music and language can shed new
light on musical representation, including program music and
more recent incarnations such as data sonification. Although
sonification and program music have different aims—one
scientific explication, the other artistic expression—similar
techniques, relying on human and animal biology, cognition,
and culture, underlie both. Examples include Western
composers such as Beethoven and Berlioz, to more recent
figures like Messiaen, Stockhausen and Tom Johnson, as well
as music theory, semiotics, biology, and data sonifications by
myself and others. The common thread connecting these
diverse examples is the use of human musicality, in the biomusicological
sense, for representation. Links between
musicality and representation—dimensions like high/low,
long/short, near/far, etc., bridging the real and abstract—can
prove useful for researchers, sound designers, and composers.
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2017-06
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