Gearing Time Toward Musical Creativity: Conceptual Integration and Material Anchoring in Xenakis’ Psappha

Understanding compositional practices is a major goal of musicology and music theory. Compositional have been traditionally viewed as disembodied idiosyncratic. This view makes it hard to integrate musical creativity into our understanding the general cognitive processes underlying meaning construction. To overcome this unnecessary isolation composition from science, in conceptual analysis, we approach with analytic tools blending theory, material anchoring, enaction. Our case study Iannis Xenakis’ use sieves for distributing rhythmic patterns Psappha . Though disregarded previous accounts, timeline gearwheel provide crucial templates anchoring idea time score. integration temporal representation seeks gain insight creativity, embodiment, blending, especially how virtual interactions structures facilitate construction complex meanings.