Younes EL HAYANI Can music influence the perception of space? Perception, in architecture, is the vector of an immaterial ephemerality. Perception of space, as defined by Gibson, is the concrete and primitive detection of the stable permanent framework of...
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Younes EL HAYANI Can music influence the perception of space? Perception, in architecture, is the vector of an immaterial ephemerality. Perception of space, as defined by Gibson, is the concrete and primitive detection of the stable permanent framework of the environment.1 Merleau-Ponty showed us that to rediscover the world of perceptions, one has to analyze the role senses play in the formation of knowledge.2 And as Mikel Dufrenne wrote, art is the apotheosis of the sensuous in the way that it contains the other aspects of the aesthetic object experience (representation, imagination, reflection and feeling). 3 The relation between the subject (auditor) and the aesthetic object (piece of music) becomes intersubjective4 and the experience of the subject becomes a synthesis between passion and rationality, emotion and understanding, and body and spirit.5 These statements about perception of space and art help to understand what we are going to focus on, which is the aural perception of
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