ISOPHONIA
Independent Research Initiative

ISOPHONIA

Understanding how musical thought becomes acoustic reality and how acoustic reality becomes musical experience.

Exploring the chain of transformations linking musical thought, movement, acoustic reality and musical experience.

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The central question

How does musical thought become musical experience?

Between the musician's first musical intention and the listener's final musical experience lies a remarkable chain of transformations. Understanding this chain is the purpose of Isophonia.

The Isophonia Framework
The Isophonia Framework, showing the chain from musical thought through movement, mechanical energy, bow, violin, acoustic reality and auditory perception to musical experience.
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Research

Discover the scientific questions, research programme and current projects that shape the Isophonia initiative.

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Musical Fidelity

Read the first working paper introducing the bow as the acoustic encoder at the heart of musical performance.

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Books

Explore published books, working papers and forthcoming projects on sound, movement and musical performance.

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