Sound stands on the skin
Filippo Marani Tassinari, Matteo Meda · Phenomenological Reviews · 2020
The paper tackles the notions of timbre and sonorous matter and their connection with the dimension of corporeality in Piana's phenomenological researches on music. The first section highlights the centrality of timbre as the properly material element in musical perception and the most elementary musical fact. The second section tackles the primitive role of timbre in constituting the material base of any elementary musical unit, with a proper expressive power. Timbre reveals itself as the crucial factor for the manifestation of the auditory object’s corporeality, that Piana calls the