Mimetic behavior and construction of meaning. Aerial execution as outsourcing of cognition
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mimetic behavior, construction of meaning, aerial performance, externalizationAbstract
Arnie Cox’s mimetic hypothesis holds that we understand musical sounds by comparing them with those we make, and that this process involves a tacit imitation of an earlier sound production experience. Among non-musicians, a common form of mimetic behavior is aerial execution: the recreation ‘in the air’ of bodily actions of instrumental performance. Under the assumption that the behavior reveals aspects of the images associated with the musical experience, an experiment was proposed with 36 music students, which involved aerial execution during the audition of a musical fragment, to observe characteristics of the mimetic behavior of the participants. and analyze their relationships with other modalities of experience. Three modalities of mimetic behavior were isolated and analyzed to what extent and how the features of the experience communicated by mimesis were transferred to a transcript and a sung version of the fragment.
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