Encountering music : event collection method
Catherine Dosso · theses.fr (ABES) · 2020
Children listening to music, considered as an aesthetic experience, has been the subject of little research work. We hypothesize that examining aesthetic experience through the lens of the process of the encounter enables one to rightly consider the specificities of childrens musical listening experiences characterized by the movement of the sound flow. Simondian concepts of transduction and disparation, Deuleuze & Guattari concepts of disjunctive synthesis, hecceity and refrain create an intense philosophical space that enable us to approach the phenomenon that we are investigating. From traces that appear in different forms, we produce here a set of event examples that refuses the ways of a typology that seems incompatible with the phenomenon of the “Encounter”. This set of examples presents events from which we pick affect valencies. We postulate that they are affirmative of an encounter with a musical artwork. Those examples have hypothetic value, and can be seen as possible encouters with music.