Resistance of the perceived material and table in the plot of the intensity. The conceptual origin of Giovanni Piana

Abstract

Piana's work is characterized by broad interest in music. For the Italian philosopher, the perceptual experience of sound material represents a mystery that must be investigated in all its different aspects. The sounds, the materials of music, con-vey expressiveness thanks to their own phenomenological materiality and we could hardly open the subject of musical expressiveness, if the raw material could be understood as so-mething expressively neutral. This statement points to a number of problems to be solved in relation to the elementary distinctions that apply on this plane, and on the plane of the termi-nology that corresponds to them. The aim of this article is to introduce Piana's analysis of sound and the listening experience.