This article investigates how listening to music is connected with our bodily and multisensory relationship to the world around us. Particular attention is paid to the tangibility and intangibility of music, including its diverse...
moreThis article investigates how listening to music is connected with our
bodily and multisensory relationship to the world around us. Particular
attention is paid to the tangibility and intangibility of music, including its
diverse platforms as a source of multi- and intersensory information, and
the use of media consisting of both technical devices and human bodies/
minds which are repeatedly involved in the process. Methodologically, the
research draws on the concepts of sensobiography and sensobiographic
walks and interviews supported by a listening walk method. Utilising
empirical fieldwork data, the article elaborates issues of sensory turn and
puts sensory turn into a dialogue with theoretical and methodological
approaches from ethnomusicology and sound studies. Theoretical
approaches are supported by empirical evidence from previous research
addressing the sensory experiences of diverse generations and how they
relate to and overlap with each other.
Keywords: sensory turn; tangibility; listening; sound studies;
sensobiography
