Body Music: Phenomenologies of Sonic Gesture

On the visceral engagement of the body in musical performance, and how technological mediation can foster, or break, forms of audience empathy.

Body Music: Phenomenologies of Sonic Gesture is a musician’s account of the relationship between corporeal movement and musical sound. It examines the conscious and subconscious strategies behind musical expression, and ways in which sound and gesture become the medium of intersubjectivity with the spectator. It looks at the design of technologies th...