Mathematical Gesture Theory

Guerino Mazzola; Maria Mannone; Yan Pang; Margaret O’Brien; Nathan T Torunsky

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47334-5_19

Mathematical Gesture Theory

Guerino Mazzola, Maria Mannone, Yan Pang, Margaret O’Brien, Nathan T Torunsky

Music (Twin Cities)

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What is a gesture? This is a concept which everyone knows, but no one is able to define. In that way, it is similar to its counterpart, time. The concept of gesture is very important in art, philosophy, and communication. Formally, a gesture is a system of continuous curves connecting points in space and time. A curve that connects a gesture to another one is a hypergesture. We explore the creativity of new music which uses the gesture as a starting point for composition.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Computational Music Science
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	163-171
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47334-5_19
State	Published - 2016

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Name	Computational Music Science
ISSN (Print)	1868-0305
ISSN (Electronic)	1868-0313

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Continuous Curf
French Philosopher
Musical Performance
Physical Gesture
Symbolic Gesture

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