The Discipline
Theories - The principle of Human-Cosmos unity develops in the Cosmo-psycho-physiologic aesthetics, which models the “connecting structure” (Bateson again) Human being-Nature. The traditional theory of the Four elements (water, air, earth, fire) and their metamorphoses, as much as morphogenesis (that is, the principles and processes of the energy becoming matter), are now reviewed and become a comparative model for reading tonic movements, expressive behaviours, artistic creations. Within such a framework, the symbologies of colour and matter are also developed.
The theory of Prenatal expressive Styles connects the sequence of the in-utero life stages to many daily, artistic and regressive expressive behaviours. In the ‘Journey of the hero’, the labour of birth is the model used for reading the entire life as a succession of going/working out episodes, and an archetype that can be traced in many human expressions, daily and artistic ones, from fairy tales to musical forms.
Emo-tonicity teorizes the ‘taking body’ of deep emotions of vital tonus in the muscular tone; and Synaesthesia explains how all this comes to representation into different sensations and images. Syhaesthesia as a primary human potential is the key of the vicariousness of senses: hence the ‘globality’ of the languages, the possibility of their ‘transduction’, the idea of a globality of the arts and consequently of a MusicArTherapy where music, poetry, dance, painting, sculpture etc. are felt and thought in a tight interrelation, upstream of the current cultural separation.
The emo-tono-phonosymbolism continues its path from emotions to muscular tone to verbal language, as a form of embodiment of the external world.
The bio-energetic theory of the Three-folded Body leads to the processes of charge and discharge of vital energy, the most common musical experiences, rooted in the body (melody, rhythm and sound) and, along with them, the basic expressive modes of figuration (line, colour, shaping).
From the ancestral memories of the Body-History, the GdL elaborates a Bodily Map that applies, in organic form, a series of “memories of the body”, that is, of specific sensibilities that enable the description of the diverse psycho-sensorial and motory states.
Back to the English menu
