Music and video iconicity: theory and experimental design.
Experimental studies on the relationship between quasi-musical patterns and visual movement have largely focused on either referential, associative aspects or syntactical, accent-oriented alignments. Both of these are very important, however, between the referential and areferential lays a domain where visual pattern perceptually connects to musical pattern; this is iconicity. The temporal syntax of accent structures in iconicity is hypothesized to be important. Beyond that, a multidimensional visual space connects to musical patterning through mapping of visual time/space to musical time/magnitudes. Experimental visual and musical correlates are presented and comparisons to previous research provided.
Kendall
Roger A
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Music Cognition and Acoustics Laboratory, Department of Ethnomusicology, Program in Systematic Musicology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657, USA. kendall@ucla.edu
D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music; D012107:Research Design; D014796:Visual Perception