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Musicians spend a significant amount of time practicing. Over the years, intuitions and understandings accumulate that may be difficult not only to share, but also to make sense of. 'Musika', a research by Stanimira Withers, is an exercise in musical metaphysics, which attempts to articulate and contextualize some of these intuitions and understandings, expanding the territory on which thinking about music is familiarly performed. With the presumption that consciousness is fundamental, this dissertation proposes that music is a form of consciousness, which enters in a mutualistic relationship with sentients to acquire experience and to propagate its evolution. ‘Musika’ is defined as a consciousness organization cultivating sound-based forms and intelligences. Incorporating and integrating insights from physics, philosophy and psychology with a cultural-musicological attitude, 'Musika' is concerned with contextualizing and validating the artistic experience and its practice-derived tacit knowledge. A contribution to the fields of philosophy of music and music ontology, and specifically, to the musicological discourse of musical meaning, the study explores how music and consciousness trace the same fundamental process of evolution, constructing different information-based realities.

type	research exposition
keywords	consciousness, musical meaning, musical ontology, musical entity, implicate order, body without organs
date	27/10/2020
last modified	02/02/2023
status	in progress
share status	public
copyright	Stanimira Withers
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1787124/1787125
connected to	Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
external link	https://hdl.handle.net/1887/137929

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Musika: The becoming of an artistic musical metaphysics (last edited: 2023)

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