Abstract

This paper presents the acousmatic compositional project “Listening animals”, an octophonic piece comissioned by the Laboratory of Creation and Musical Cognition, “AcusmaLab”, which in turn is part of the Center for Argumentation and Reasoning Studies in the Psychology Faculty of the Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. The comission was made as part of the research project “Towards a grammar of unwritten musics: a neurophenomenological approach”1 carried forward by Federico Schumacher and Claudio Fuentes, both researchers of the AcusmaLab. The project “[...] seeks to explore within the musical experience through mixed, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, arising from neurophenomenology, focusing on acousmatic music as a "limit case of pure listening” (CEAR)2 This presentation describes the piece, its links with the mentioned investigation and how from this one, specific aspects of its plan and structure were setted.