Modeling Musical Imagery in a Framework of Perceptually Constrained Spatio-Temporal Representations
R.I. Godoy, H. Jorgensen · 2012
Musical imagery can be defined as the capacity for the mental representation of musical sound in the absence of a direct audible and corresponding sound source. Musical imagery is not a hallucination or the experience of hearing real music when none is there. It rather denotes the mental re-experience, remembrance, recall, or mental creation of a sonoric object or a musical process. Reference can be made to an inner ear or to a vivid representation that is close to the actual perception of music. Most people, moreover, will agree that the representation of a sonoric object in mind may occur in different degrees of vividness and abstraction. Such a mental given may be associated with non-sonoric objects and generated on the basis of metaphors. Metaphors obviously entail the projection of an image or process in a certain domain (e.g., the visual or tactile domain) onto the sonoric domain.