The Hidden Unity ― An Experimental View on Aesthetics and Semiotics of Music in the Czech Milieu

Studying music using the interpersonal hypothesis allows researchers to conduct experiments, says Cern, and emphasizes the character of music as a specifically oriented activity that overcomes the individual personal dimension and addresses the individual person's relationship within a small social group based on "familiarization through choice." Within that framework, she explores a half-forgotten line in Czech aesthetics, the experimental aesthetics and the historical context, with a focus on cybernetics. Her topics are aesthetics, experiments, and values; between cybernetics, aesthetics, and semiotics; "I/other" oppositions in music, aesthetics, and semiotics; interpersonal analysis in film music; and Janacek from an interpersonal viewpoint. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Jarmila Doubravova studied Aesthetics and Musicology at the Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). For many years she was the Czech representative in the executive committee of IASS/AIS and led the semiotic group of the Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics (CSKI). Currently she is head of the Aesthetics Department at the West Czech University in Plzen (Czech Republic).