Memory as the Aspatial Domain for the Perception of Certain Genres of Contemporary Art Music

This paper enquires into the nature of connections between memory and certain genres contemporary art music whose unique features rely particularly on our early mnemonic processes. Specific sound configurations this are often associated, during listening, with visual tactile sensorial qualities abstract geometries. They perceived fundamentally as results acoustic-physical forces energies organized according to Gestalt kinesthetic principles. kind calls for a specific listening attitude, which we define vertical stance, seems apt respond mechanisms working where echoic, short- long-term memories assume central role. In is involved in mental construction (segregation, storage, prediction) within perceptual domain that crucially has no spatial connection external world. tying neurophysiological psychological research musicological theories, discuss approach these practices light philosophical concept ‘No-Space world’ conceived by philosopher Peter Strawson. We propose – under conditions may be realm purely spectro-temporal music. The particular part an internal-external framework, being decoded conceptual space perception able elicit high-order recollections typical embodied engagement