ArticlePhenomenology and the cognitive sciences2021
Exploratory expertise and the dual intentionality of music-making.
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- Habitually breaking habits: Agency, awareness, and decision-making in musical improvisation.Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences · 2026Article
- Embodied, Exploratory Listening in the Concert Hall.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Music performance as knowledge acquisition: a review and preliminary conceptual framework.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Exploring in a climbing task during a learning protocol: a complex sense-making process.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Meaning-making and creativity in musical entrainment.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Processes and Experiences of Creative Cognition in Seven Western Classical Composers.Musicae scientiae : the journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music · 2022Article
- Oral Tradition as Context for Learning Music From 4E Cognition Compared With Literacy Cultures. Case Studies of Flamenco Guitar Apprenticeship.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Optimizing Performative Skills in Social Interaction: Insights From Embodied Cognition, Music Education, and Sport Psychology.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
In this paper, we advance the thesis that music-making can be advantageously understood as an exploratory phenomenon. While music-making is certainly about aesthetic expression, from a phenomenological, cognitive, and even evolutionary perspective, it more importantly concerns structured explorations of the world around us, our minds, and our bodies. Our thesis is based on an enactive and phenomenological analysis of three cases: the first concerns the study of infants involved in early musical activities, and the two latter are phenomenologically inspired interviews with an expert jazz improviser, and members of a prominent string quartet. Across these examples, we find that music-making involves a dual intentionality - one oriented towards the exploration of the sonic, material, and social environment, and one oriented toward the self, including the exploration of bodily awareness and reflective mental states. In enactivist terms, exploration is a fundamental way of making sense of oneself as coupled with the world. Understanding music-making as a pre-eminent case of exploration helps us explicate and appreciate the developmental, sensorimotor, and more advanced cognitive resources that exist in music-making activities.
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