The article substantiates the concept of auditory–motor thinking as a key artistic–cognitive structure of musical performance. Drawing on the phenomenological tradition of analyzing embodied consciousness and the temporality of musical action, it proposes a distinction between sensorimotor integration as the physiological precondition of performance and auditory–motor thinking as an...
As a universal music form in the world, shamanic music not only retains its religious (divine) nature in the historical construction but also shows different national characteristics with the embedding of specific cultural scene patterns. Citing the perspective of ethnomusicology, the source of religious consciousness of the current shamanic music object form is explained with “music in...
Tourists travelling to Turkey may encounter circling (mevlevi) dervishes in Konya, spinning in circles to achieve a kind of altered state of consciousness and enter a trance-like state of ecstasy. The world of popular music has also been inspired by the concepts of Christianity and ecstasy, and some rock bands have emerged from a combination of the two. This altered state of consciousness is...