Exposition

The Timbre of Tone, the Texture of Space: An Embodied Approach to the Atmospheric Modulations of Éliane Radigue (2020)

Mark Saccomano

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The electronic music of Éliane Radigue provides a striking experience of sound, space, audition, and their interdependence - dramatically demonstrating the link between music perception and listener actions. Radigue’s musical structures are not fully realized until they are taken up by the listener; listening subject and musical object participate in an event that is mutually constitutive of these roles, articulating the space shared by both. Drawing on James J. Gibson’s (1986) ecological approach to perception, as well as Scott Marratto’s (2012) work on Merleau-Ponty’s theory of embodiment and meaning, I show that space is more than simply a transparent medium through which music flows: sonic characteristics of the music combine with bodily comportment to constitute a work wherein sounds come to inhabit space with the same material presence as the listener. By calling upon our capabilities as embodied listeners, Radigue’s music offers us an opportunity to become reattuned to our surroundings, presenting new possibilities for action within the spaces we inhabit.
typeresearch exposition
date03/09/2020
published07/09/2020
last modified07/09/2020
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightSaccomano
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/979475/979476
published inJournal of Sonic Studies
portal issue20. Issue 20


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979478 JSS Banner JSS All rights reserved
979569 Example 1 - Kailasha excerpt 0.00 - 1.10 Saccomano All rights reserved
979622 Figure 1 - Kailasha Spectrogram Saccomaco All rights reserved
979626 Example 1 - Ikeda Minus excerpt 1'40 - 2'40 Saccomano All rights reserved
979628 Example 2 - Kaillasha excerpt 35.08 - 36.08 Saccomano All rights reserved
979637 Example 3 - Ikeda Minus excerpt 1.40 - 2.40 Saccomano All rights reserved
979644 Example 4 - Kailasha excerpt 41.15-42.15 Saccomano All rights reserved
979648 2222 Saccomano All rights reserved
979650 3333 Saccomano All rights reserved

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