Audiation

Quick meaning: Audiation is a noun meaning (music) The comprehension and internal realization of music by an individual in the absence of any physical sound.

Meaning

(music) The comprehension and internal realization of music by an individual in the absence of any physical sound.

Example Sentences

Rock's fantasists and their immediate parents, like the Beats, invented their visions and audiations from a vocabulary of imaginary sound and time spaces (thus, perhaps, "audiochronotopes").

Audiation takes place when one hears music through recall or creation (the sound not being physically present) and infers musical meaning as compared to aural perception where one listens to music actually being performed.

Some performers spend considerable time reviewing the score and experiencing the music through audiation, or engage in internal dialogue to get themselves into the right orientation to play while others complete a technical/physical warm-up with their instruments, playing both exercises and parts of the repertoire.

Children will stare for a few seconds at the parent, teacher, or another person as they become aware that there is a difference between their own singing or chanting and someone else's. […] In a sense, children are now attempting to enter the world of audiation. At this point, however, they do not know how to correct their singing, chanting, or movement and, thus, they are unable to begin to cope with audiation.

Word Forms

• audiations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clairaudience, hearing, audile, somatosound, de-acousmatization, innerstanding.

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