Editorial: Corporeality and Subject

Listening, Corporeality and Presence

The use of sound to create or enhance the sense of presence is well recognized and the measurements of which have focused on hearing, e.g. “were you able to identify a particular sound?”, “how well could you localize the sounds”. To this treatment of audition we now add, listening. Listening is active, directed, intentional hearing. This aspect of the phenomenology of sound listening has receiv...

Corporeality in the Digital Age

ion, symbolic thought, metaphor thus are depicted as properties of the male; the female is completely excluded from meaningful symbolic communication. But the sema itself, the product of metis, provides a false security which these texts also acknowledge. The creation of the first sema, at least in the Theogony, is explicitly linked to the female in the figure of Pandora, the perfect sema, the ...

Corporeality, Actions and Perceptions in Gestural Performance of Digital Music

What is the relationship between the performer’s body, the instrument, the musical actions and their perception by an audience? And how do they relate when the music is generated by abstract digital processes controlled through actions on technical control surfaces, or gestural, tangible interfaces? This article investigates these questions by examining elements and concepts from physiology, th...

Olfactory Art, Trans corporeality, and the Museum Environment

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