Dear Group C members, We had a Skype meeting of group leaders this morning and had a good discussion of the work of the various groups thus far. We’ve been told that a way to ‘opt in’ for email notifications of comments for posts will be implemented soon, which may […]
I appreciate Julie drawing my attention to musical ornamentation in the technical sense, and, if I remember correctly, this is often left to the player’s discretion and not noted, right? Once again we are bumping into the problem of aurality’s relative “untraceabilty.” But I wonder about “captivation” effects in the […]
I’ve been reading Shai Burstyn’s “In Quest of the Period Ear” with great interest — thanks, Julie, for suggesting this reading. I think there are some interesting connections between this argument and the model of ‘cognitive ecology’ put forward by Ed Hutchins. Burstyn’s thesis adapts Michael Baxandall’s concept of the […]
Thought people might find this excerpt from Gina Bloom interesting/helpful: “Representations of the ears as self-protective fortresses appear in a range of early modern moral treatises. In Essaies Upon the Five Senses (1620), Richard Brathwaite writes that “a discreet eare . . . cheers the affections, fortifying them against all […]
I’ve been studying descriptions of music making found in French accounts of travel to the Levant from 1550 to 1700. At that time, the pursuit of musical knowledge was not yet a motivation for travel (this would begin in the eighteenth century), but music nonetheless had both ontological and epistemological […]
My interests in the sense of hearing revolve around the visual arts and their capacity (and incapacity) to conjure sound. As Erasmus wrote of Albrecht Dürer’s prints, they show us “the whole mind of man as it shines forth from the appearance of the body, and almost the very […]
As I mentioned in our meeting, I have a number of research interests around music, including some past work on sound and fear in Macbeth; research on the metrical psalms; and interest in the role of sound and attention within the cognitive ecology of early modern English theatre. For the […]
I’ve been interested for a while in Alfred Gell’s work in Art and Agency, a study that seeks an art theory that reads across western and non-western cultures. He proposed animism as the underlying unifying principle, suggesting how the west remains a deeply animist society. In particular, his work on ornamentation […]
I had a few ideas for how I might focus my work in the group, drawing on our initial discussions. I thought that it would be very interesting for me to investigate the general ideas of words and music, and performing vs. listening, in relation to Conversion. One point is […]
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