Space-Awareness and Space-Feeling
as Components of
Knowledge
Potential and
Kinetic Energy in
the Musical Sound-Space
“Static” and
“Dynamic” Experience of
Space
The Musical
Interplay of
Feeling and
Understanding
Space-awareness and space-feeling are components of knowledge which are experienced from the level of the mind and which are therefore not at all directly related to any aspect of the environment.
The distance of things separated in time or space corresponds to the phenomenon of potential energy in nature and creates the space-awareness of the understanding. The change of the distance between things separated in time or space corresponds to the phenomenon of kinetic energy in nature; it predominantly stimulates the feeling, and from the feeling level it generates the experience of space through the senses.
Thus,
we distinguish two kinds of spatial experience: the “static” experience of
space through the analytical understanding and the “dynamic” experience of
space through the synthesizing feeling.
When listening to music, these two phenomena of spatial experience always
appear together and in mutual dependence; sometimes, the one dominates, and
sometimes the other.
The interplay of feeling and understanding generated in this process is the sphere of influence of music.
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