Doing multimodal intersubjectivity in music: embodied affordances in digital horn hangouts

This contribution describes the digital streaming interview about brass music at the interface between trumpet playing and multiple intersubjective relations. The cognitive linguistic notion of intersubjective construal is brought to a multimodal level, in line with the visual and acoustic affordances imposed by the digital interview, such as gaze directions and camera angles proper to the digital recording setting. Other constraints have to do with the embodied aspects of trumpet playing on the members in the online community, which jointly practice trumpet techniques. We qualitatively analyze sequences in two interviews, or so-called digital horn hangouts produced online. Our central conclusion is that when intersubjectivity is taken beyond the verbal layer of communication we need to integrate knowledge about musical objects and performing subjects in this community at the interplay between technological and bodily aspects of the media format and musical interaction.

ISBN:978-2-87558-697-1

Publication year:2018