Invited talk by Rolf Inge Godøy

Title:
Quantal elements in musical experience

Abstract:
The aim of my talk is to present a model for understanding unit formation, what we prefer to call chunking, at short-term timescales in musical experience, typically in the du­ration range of approximately 0,5 to 5 seconds. The idea is that at these short-term timescales, chunks of sound and associated body motion are perceived and conceived holistically, hence demonstrate what may be called quantal elements in musi­cal experience. Very many salient musical features for identifying style, motion and affect, can be found at such short-term timescales (and sometimes at even shorter time­scales as suggested by Gjerdingen and Perrott 2008). A better understanding of such quan­tal elements in musical experience could be useful in the fields of music perception, music analysis, and music information retrieval, as well as in var­ious practi­cal artistic and educational contexts.