Exploring Space, Time, and Rhythm in Movement

Posted on Sep 13, 2024 in Music

The Partial Space

The partial space is the space we feel is ours. There’s a chance encounter with another partial space, making it a common area.

Imaginary Axes:

  • Vertical
  • Horizontal Transverse
  • Anteroposterior Horizontal

Considering these axes as a reference, we obtain three basic dimensions and six directions of motion:

  • Vertical Dimension: Up and down
  • Transverse Dimension: Left and right
  • Sagittal Dimension: Forward and backward

Plans arising from the combination of two axes:

  • Vertical Plane
  • Horizontal Plane
  • Sagittal Plane

Tips for Working with Partial Space

  1. Body movement exercises, low-medium-to-high-normal in the air.
  2. Games where movements are represented by different basic actions.
  3. Exploring kinesphere.
  4. Exploring the relationship between high levels of sound and space.

The Total Space

The total space is that between one and another, between one and objects, among others and objects. It is what we can achieve through movement. For the structuring of space, we focus on the total trajectories. We can define the paths and direction from the translation of the body in space.

Suggestions for Incorporating Elements of Total Space

  1. Exercises of locomotion.
  2. Exercises in basic steps of dance.
  3. Exercises in change of address.
  4. Exercises and social games in pairs and in groups.
  5. Songs with movement.
  6. Animated tales.
  7. Games and rhythmic exercises.
  8. Choreography.

Introduction

The main channels of perception of time are the auditory and kinesthetic. Tempo refers to the degree of rapidity with which a musical or rhythmic sequence is produced. These sequences may be short or long, but always the same. By linking each sound with one step, or a gesture in space, we are connecting space and time. Pace is the proportionality linking the different sequences of movement.

Fundamental Dimensions of Noise and Sound

Sound may occur as a result of the vibration of a body. If vibration occurs with regularity, the resulting sound is “musical,” that is, it forms a musical note: do, re, mi… If vibration is uneven, the result is noise.

Characteristics of Sound:

  • Height or Pitch: Refers to the discrimination of a sound as serious or severe.
  • Intensity or Volume: Given by the amplitude of the sound wave.
  • Timbre or Color: The quality that defines the difference in color tone of a note played by different instruments or voices.
  • Duration: Greater or lesser extension.
  • Articulation: According to the form and means of production.

Pulse and Time

Pulse is the infinitesimal impact that happens regularly. Tempo is marked by the speed of the set; it is the duration between pulse and pulse rate, the degree of rapidity or slowness with which it manifests. Tempo can vary from very slow to rapid.

The Personal and Common Tempo

Tempo is the result of an emotional state. Tempo can come from the self when the body responds to impulses, or it may come from an adaptation to a tempo directed from outside. Own tempo, the way pulses externally manifest, intertwines with the personality of the performer or the circumstances that move and motivate them. To find a common tempo means to create a community, the same atmosphere, to live an internal communication that underlies outward manifestations. Around the common tempo, dual and group improvisations can develop.

The Perception of Rhythmic Structures

Rhythm is the break in the regularity of sounds or movements, hence its expressive force. Rhythm can be achieved through the introduction of accents, or the association of short and long intervals within a sequence.

Compass: The measure taken to divide a piece of music into fragments of equal length.

Orders of Bars:

  • Binary: Consist of two beats.
  • Ternary: Consist of three beats. The first beat is marked down, the second right, and the third above.
  • Quaternary: Consist of four beats. The first beat is marked down, the second up, the third left, and the fourth upstairs.

Indication of the Measures: In the form of a fraction. The numerator of the fraction indicates the number of figures of the same species that complete the measure. The denominator indicates the number of figures of the same species that complete the round.

Setback: Any note which has a weak time, and is preceded by a silence, placed louder in time.

Pauses or Silences: Figures in musical notation indicating a disruption of sound, having a definite duration.

Perception of Temporal Organization

  • The Moment: Awareness of the precise time an action happens.
  • Simultaneity: Performing two or more actions at the same time.
  • Succession: Performing an action after a previous one has been completed.

Definition and Basic Concepts of Rhythm

. The pace is a game of contrasts: contrast may be caused by intensity, duration or ring tone.
The pace in corporal expression should be studied and lived first in their primary manifestations. Distinction between rhythm and meter, between the rhythmic expression as vital phenomenon, Creator, and how they can be “measured” to be written. The metric is how to measure the rate and give you a script.