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The Event-Based and Emergent Timing in Music Performance: Current Findings and Implications

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology
  • Abbr : JKSM
  • 2022, 30(2), pp.7~39
  • DOI : 10.34303/mscol.2022.30.2.001
  • Publisher : The Korean Society for Musicology
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Musicology > Other Musicology
  • Received : October 15, 2022
  • Accepted : December 8, 2022
  • Published : December 30, 2022

Lee Mi-Kyung 1

1전남대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The traditional theory of short time interval processing is the centralized internal clock model. However, recent advances have proposed that the brain represents time in a distributed manner and advocated that time for short interval can be estimated by the process of change in other ways, rather than using a pacemaker-accumulator model. In line with it, the beat perception and production in musical activity can not be processed by one kind of centralized internal clock in the brain. The beat is not only perceived as the isochronous regularity but also experienced as the continuous flow. Research into musical timing has been explained this duality as an expressive fluctuation of metric timing. However, I argue that there may be two processes in beat perception and production, which are alternative and discordant, based on the two modeling frameworks to account for sensorimotor synchronization. Event-based timing involves a clock-like neural process and an explicit internal representation of the time interval. In contrast, emergent timing can be maintained without reference to any explicit representation of the time interval, and emerges from timing intrinsic dynamics of the effector’s body. In distinctions in two timing control ways, I consider an embodied timing mode of beat perception and production. I highlight the implications of this theory applying to the musical rhythm and timing study and discuss the difficulties facing the empirical study field.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.