Improvised Sound-Making within Musical Apprenticeship and Enactivism: An Intersection between the 4E`s Model and DMIs

Isabela Corintha, and Giordano Cabral

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2021
• Location: Shanghai, China
• Article Number: 65
• DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.56a01d33 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

From an epistemological perspective, this work presents a discussion of how the paradigm of enactive music cognition is related to improvisation in the context of the skills and needs of 21st-century music learners. Improvisation in music education is addressed within the perspective of an alternative but an increasingly influential enactive approach to mind (Varela et al., 1993) followed by the four theories known as the 4E of cognition - embedded, embodied, enactive and extended - which naturally have characteristics in common that led them to be grouped in this way. I discuss the “autopoietic” (self-maintain systems that auto-reproduce over time based on their own set of internal rules) nature of the embodied musical mind. To conclude, an overview concerning the enactivist approach within DMIs design in order to provide a better understanding of the experiences and benefits of using new technologies in musical learning contexts is outlined.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME21_65,
 abstract = {From an epistemological perspective, this work presents a discussion of how the paradigm of enactive music cognition is related to improvisation in the context of the skills and needs of 21st-century music learners. Improvisation in music education is addressed within the perspective of an alternative but an increasingly influential enactive approach to mind (Varela et al., 1993) followed by the four theories known as the 4E of cognition - embedded, embodied, enactive and extended - which naturally have characteristics in common that led them to be grouped in this way. I discuss the “autopoietic” (self-maintain systems that auto-reproduce over time based on their own set of internal rules) nature of the embodied musical mind. To conclude, an overview concerning the enactivist approach within DMIs design in order to provide a better understanding of the experiences and benefits of using new technologies in musical learning contexts is outlined.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {65},
 author = {Corintha, Isabela and Cabral, Giordano},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.56a01d33},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/dGb5tl_tA58},
 title = {Improvised Sound-Making within Musical Apprenticeship and Enactivism: An Intersection between the 4E`s Model and DMIs},
 url = {https://nime.pubpub.org/pub/e4lsrn6c},
 year = {2021}
}