Perceptual experience

July 2, 2015

On Words With Resonance: Alva Noë’s “Varieties Of Presence”

“Experience, in the large, and in the small, is complex and manifold; it is always an encounter with hidden complexity. Experience is fractal in this sense. Perceptual experience extends to the hidden. In a way, for perception, everything is hidden. Nothing is given.” -Alva Noë, Varieties Of Presence (2012, p. 19) Continue reading

On Words With Resonance, presence

Perceptual experience

Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.

Perceptual experience

On Words With Resonance: Alva Noë’s “Varieties Of Presence”