Timbre as a form-bearing element in music: Perceptual and cognitive issues
The seminar covers a variety of interdisciplinary topics concerning the perceptual "representation" of timbre in the auditory system, multidimensional models of timbre as predictors of perceptual and musical effects of timbre, the role of timbre as a structuring force in music, the eventual limits imposed on this role by perception and memory for absolute timbre and timbral relations, and the use of timbre as an expressive device in musical performance.