{"product_id":"sound-actions-isbn-9780262544634","title":"Sound Actions","description":"\u003cb\u003eA techno-cognitive look at how new technologies are shaping the future of musicking.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Musicking” encapsulates both the making of and perception of music, so it includes both active and passive forms of musical engagement. But at its core, it is a relationship between actions and sounds, between human bodies and musical instruments. Viewing musicking through this lens and drawing on music cognition and music technology, \u003ci\u003eSound Actions \u003c\/i\u003eproposes a model for understanding differences between traditional acoustic “sound makers” and new electro-acoustic “music makers.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhat is a musical instrument? How do new technologies change how we perform and perceive music? What happens when composers build instruments, performers write code, perceivers become producers, and instruments play themselves? The answers to these pivotal questions entail a meeting point between interactive music technology and embodied music cognition, what author Alexander Refsum Jensenius calls “embodied music technology.” Moving between objective description and subjective narrative of his own musical experiences, Jensenius explores why music makes people move, how the human body can be used in musical interaction, and how new technologies allow for active musical experiences. The development of new music technologies, he demonstrates, has fundamentally changed how music is performed and perceived.Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003ePrelude xi\u003cbr\u003ePart I Musicking\u003cbr\u003e1 Music as an Active Process 3\u003cbr\u003e2 Music as an Embodied Process 23\u003cbr\u003e3 Musical Instruments 39\u003cbr\u003ePart II Embodiment\u003cbr\u003e4 Music-Related Body Motion 53\u003cbr\u003e5 Functional Aspects 71\u003cbr\u003e6 Representations of Sound Actions 85\u003cbr\u003ePart III Interaction \u003cbr\u003e7 Action–Sound Couplings 99\u003cbr\u003e8 Action–Sound Mappings 123\u003cbr\u003e9 Spationtemporality 159\u003cbr\u003ePart IV Affection\u003cbr\u003e10 From Ivory to Silicone 177\u003cbr\u003e11 Unconventional Instruments 205\u003cbr\u003e12 Performing in the Air 219\u003cbr\u003ePostlude 243\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 253\u003cbr\u003eIndex 281“A thorough and systematic treatment of new musical instrument research in the digital age, \u003ci\u003eSound Actions\u003c\/i\u003e is an interdisciplinary tour de force that will be a key encyclopedic reference for all musickers interested in the empirical study of embodied musical experience.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Atau Tanaka, Series Editor, Goldsmiths Press Sonics Series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Engaging with instruments both real and imagined, handmade and mass-produced, this account of embodied musicking techniques is driven by keen scholarship and tenacious experimentation.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sally Jane Norman, Director of Te Kōkī – New Zealand School of Music, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Well-researched, yet personal in approach, this book emphasizes something that we know as musicians but can forget as technologists: that ‘relationships between actions and sound are the core of music making.’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Perry Cook, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Music, Princeton University; author of Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound\u003c\/b\u003eAlexander Refsum Jensenius is Professor of Music Technology at the University of Oslo.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300411592933,"sku":"NP9780262544634","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544634.jpg?v=1767737004","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/sound-actions-isbn-9780262544634","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}