Date of Award

2019

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Dancigers, Mark

Area of Concentration

Psychology and Music

Abstract

I present a chamber music composition Units of Consciousness written for violin, cello, double bass, and piano. It consists of three movements: “Units of Consciousness”, “Dissonant Coherence”, and “Intrusions”. The piece employs various modern music composition techniques and focuses on concept of consciousness as an integral part of existence and interaction between all elements of the environment. This work raises questions about the conflicting role of humanity in the current evolutionary and revolutionary processes of the planet. Units of Consciousness is based on multimodal synesthetic experience of the composer; on my own perceptions of time, consciousness, and music. Rather than depicting consciousness as an abstract concept, I translate to the best of my abilities multimodal synesthetic perception of my reality into the aural stream of music. The phenomenon of consciousness and its paradox within and beyond humancentricity is reviewed from natural science, social science, and cultural perspectives. Synesthesia in its multimodal type is a factor that makes possible translation of nonhomogenous complex incoming sensory stimuli into a coherent inter-connected canvas of my musical piece.

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