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Based on the spatial composition method proposed by the author and its application in the piece, Materia Oscura (This work was premiered at MediaLab-Prado, Madrid, Spain on October 11, 2013.), some geometric representations that allow the description and documentation of the relation between cognition, sound and space are proposed. The purpose of developing this analysis is to establish a formal precedent for future studies related to different perceptual skills with which we abstract three-dimensional space information through our ears. The applications of these studies range from artistic creation to the development of educational tools for music and mathematics.
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Denis Smalley developed the term spectromorphology in 1995 as “tools for describing and analysing listening experience. The two parts of the term refer to the interaction between sound spectra (spectro-) and the ways they change and are shaped through time (-morphology). The espectro- cannot exist without the -morphology and vice versa: something has to be shaped, and shape must have sonic content” [4].
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Lobato-Cardoso, J.A. (2017). Topos Echóchromas Hórou (The Place of the Tone of Space). On the Relationship Between Geometry, Sound and Auditory Cognition. In: Pareyon, G., Pina-Romero, S., Agustín-Aquino, O., Lluis-Puebla, E. (eds) The Musical-Mathematical Mind. Computational Music Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47337-6_15
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