Le 29 juin 2017
de 14h00 à 14h30
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
salle 3202
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Mark Reybrouck
Music, as a temporal and sounding art, is characterised most typically by its articulation over time, balancing between actual sensation and representation. Music analysis, on the other hand, has a nominalist tradition of sense-making by abstracting from mere sensory experience to verbal and abstract categories. The aim of this contribution is to bring together music, analysis and experience. It starts by questioning whether music is an ontological or an epistemological category, to be conceived as a structure or artefact, or as something that must be heard or listened to in order to be meaningful. Music analysis, in this view, should rely not only on a static and symbolic description of the music, but also on a dynamic-vectorial approach that keeps step with the sonorous unfolding over time. Such an approach to musical sense-making stresses the importance of the moment-to-moment history of epistemic interactions with the music as it sounds. Starting from some older philosophical writings, from the enactive and embodied claims of cognitive linguistics and from empirical findings from neurobiology and psychobiology, it elaborates on the experiential approach to music in an attempt to bring together analysis and experience. Rather than conceiving of them as opposed to each other, they are brought in relation to the dynamics of representation that spans a continuum between step-by-step processing and synoptic overview in an attempt to go beyond traditional dichotomies which revolve around the discrete/continuous, the in time/outside of time and the deictic vs. symbolic approach to musical knowledge.
