When it meets other fields.
Its intersection with literature can be explored through rhythm, form, and relationships between words and sound. Elsewhere, technology and physics provide tools to study or produce that experience. A musical interest should be distinguished from professional contributions as a composer or performer.
A way to begin.
Choose a short passage and represent its rhythm visually. Compare what the diagram preserves with what you perceive only by listening. Try another way of representing the same structure.
What can a musical structure teach you about another form of making?Explore in the laboratory