Subject: Re: music listening styles From: Alexander Refsum Jensenius <a.r.jensenius@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:24:33 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>As a classical (and later jazz) pianist [...], I have no problems switching between a more analytic mode and a more emotional mode when listening to music. I think this depends very much on the situation and the music being played, e.g. listening to muzak in a shopping centre, free jazz in a club, acousmatic music at a conference, and classical piano students playing their exam concerts. Just to mention a perspective that has not been touched upon much so far: What about the bodily aspects of "listening"? In my research group we have been studying how people "listen" through body movement (e.g. air instrument performance, dancing, sound-drawing) within a framework of embodied music cognition. More information here: http://musicalgestures.uio.no http://www.arj.no/research Cheers, Alexander