In Pursuit of Measuring Pre-reflective Music Listening Experiences

Abstract
While the diverse effects and uses of music and sound have been extensively documented within music psychology, relatively little attention has been paid to the process and experience of listening itself. Previous literature have, however, considered different ways of attending to sounds via the concept of listening modes, which highlights the different ways and strategies through which listeners intentionally orientate themselves to the activity of listening and creating the experiential meaning of the sound. In this paper, we continue on these lines by focusing on the very basic attentional dispositions for listening that often remain unconscious. As op posed to more deliberate and intentional listening strategies, this pre-reflective domain of listening is characterised by its receptive quality, that is, being attuned to sound in a pre-conceptual and pre cognitive manner without cognitive appraisal of its meaning. Based on previous theoretisations and following ideas from embodied and enactive cognition, we re-conceptualise pre-reflective listening through five modes of listening. Moreover, in order to bring these theoretical considerations into dialogue with empirical research we also operationalise the suggested listening modes into prototyped survey items and discuss methodological issues with the aim of building a groundwork for developing psychometric measures of pre-reflective music listening experiences.
Main Authors
Format
Conferences Conference paper
Published
2022
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
ACM
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202210134864Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
Parent publication ISBN
978-1-4503-9701-8
Review status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/3561212.3561220
Conference
Audio Mostly Conference
Language
English
Is part of publication
AM '22 : Proceedings of the 17th International Audio Mostly Conference
Citation
  • Tuuri, K., Koskela, O., & Vahlo, J. (2022). In Pursuit of Measuring Pre-reflective Music Listening Experiences. In AM '22 : Proceedings of the 17th International Audio Mostly Conference. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3561212.3561220
License
CC BY 4.0Open Access
Funder(s)
Research Council of Finland
Kone Foundation
Funding program(s)
Centre of Excellence, AoF
Huippuyksikkörahoitus, SA
Research Council of Finland
Additional information about funding
This work is funded by Kone Foundation (grant number 201908388) and Academy of Finland (Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies, project n:o 312397).
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