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Mapping physical effort to gesture and sound during interactions with imaginary objects in Hindustani vocal music
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Paschalidou, Stella Clayton, Martin Eerola, Tuomas |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | In the Dhrupad genre of Hindustani vocal improvisation singers often appear to engage with melodic ideas by manipulating intangible, imaginary objects with their hands. Despite the fact that no real object is involved, we observe vocalists executing repeated patterns of bi-manual effortful gestures, comprising gripping, exerting and releasing phases (Rahaim, 2009). They stretch, pull, push, throw and perform other movements, whereby they appear to be fighting against or yielding to some imaginary resistive force. This observation suggests that some patterns of change in acoustic features of the voice allude to the effortful interactions that such objects through their physical properties can afford, such as viscosity, elasticity, weight, friction etc. The present paper focuses exclusively on these types of gestures (abbreviated as ‘MIIOs’, i.e. Manual Interactions with Imaginary Objects) and it seeks to examine whether hand movements during MIIOs relate to the action of imagined forces, and if so, what type of forces and on what types of materials. We consider such voluntary imitations of interactions with real objects of particular interest to embodied music cognition research, as it has been previously argued that musical thinking is grounded in the ubiquitous patterns of actions we possess through our ecological knowledge of interacting with objects of the real world. Despite the specificity of the genre, the paper aims to address concerns in the study of gesture-sound relationships that are of interest to the wider research community and thus outcomes may be extended to other |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.escom2017.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ESCOM2017_122_Paschalidou_paper.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
