RT Journal Article
T1 Gearing Time Toward Musical Creativity: Conceptual Integration and Material Anchoring in Xenakis’ Psappha
A1 Besada Portas, José Luis
A1 Barthel-Calvet, Anne-Sylvie
A1 Pagán Cánovas, Cristóbal
AB Understanding compositional practices is a major goal of musicology and music theory. Compositional practices have been traditionally viewed as disembodied and idiosyncratic. This view makes it hard to integrate musical creativity into our understanding of the general cognitive processes underlying meaning construction. To overcome this unnecessary isolation of musical composition from cognitive science, in this conceptual analysis, we approach compositional processes with the analytic tools of blending theory, material anchoring, and enaction. Our case study is Iannis Xenakis’ use of sieves for distributing rhythmic patterns in Psappha. Though disregarded in previous accounts, the timeline and the gearwheel provide crucial conceptual templates for anchoring Xenakis’ idea of time for this score. This case study of conceptual integration templates for temporal representation seeks to gain insight into musical creativity, embodiment, and blending, especially into how virtual interactions with material structures facilitate the construction of complex meanings.
PB Frontiers
SN 1664-1078
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/7755
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/7755
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)/FEDER
NO Comunidad de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 1 may 2024