Lecture/Demonstration on Qualia in
Music
with talking by Joseph Goguen & demonstration by
Ryoko Goguen
This is an abstract for an event at the Univeristy of Vienna, Depts of
Computer Science and Art, on 20 March 2003:
Philosophers have generally taken a simplistic view of qualia, as feeling
tones associated with basic perceptions, such as a patch of red. But much
more complex qualia appear in music, involving simultaneous perceptions,
sequences of perceptions, emergent properties of blended qualia, sensory and
conceptual discrimination limitations, both short and long term memory, and
much more. We will discuss and demonstrate such phenomena, and also consider
improvisation, mentioning some challenges that it poses to the philosophy of
music. We will argue that certain problematic aspects of both qualia and
improvisation arise from failure to take full account of the situatedness of
human experience, and in particular, of its social contextualization.
See also the abstract for a related event, Metaphor,
Blending and Information in Music.
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To structure and values in music project
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Last modified: Fri Jun 25 16:09:05 PDT 2004