[Smt-talk] Pieces with improvisatory openings

[JAY RAHN]

Arnie Cox considers the possibility that '"improvisatory" passages are distinguished not merely as patterns of sounds but as patterns of either imagined or performed actions.  One might want to say *of course* this is the case, but I'm not sure to what extent this is reflected in the vocabulary and rhetoric of our discipline.'

In general, I would characterize relationships between an acoustical event (stimulus) and a perceptual/cognitive event (response) via a 'heard-as' predicate: e.g., onset-pair x and y is heard as time-intervallically the same as onset-pair y and z. Correspondingly, onset-pair x and y might be heard as having been realized as time-intervallically the same as onset-pai'r y and z, or x and y might be 'felt' (i.e., as in an act of 'performing along with') as time-intervallically the same as y and z, and so forth. 

In a behavioural account, imagining can be considered perceiving in the absence of an otherwise perceivable thing: e.g., I might imagine the Eiffel Tower or the opening of Mozart's 41st without being in Paris or in a concert hall etc.  

Jay Rahn, York University

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