CONTRIBUTIONS OF MUSIC SEMIOTIC EXPERIENCES SELF-NARRATIVE TO KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

Specialized language is not the only way of referring to music, and therefore it is not the only way for users to search for music information. Thus, for Knowledge Organization (KO), we focus precisely on those concepts suggested by the experience of non-expert listeners. The experience as it is lived cannot be directly transmitted, but can be shared through the self-narrative of the person who lived it. The objective of this research is to understand how the users of music information, in the role of listeners, report the experiences related to music through the description of the elements that compose this experience. The Semiotics of Pierce is the theoretical basis that allows the structuring of these elements: sign, object, interpretant and habit. Therefore, 17 individual interviews were conducted with young adults aged between 18 and 29 years, who had no formal knowledge in music. Each interviewee was invited to report an intense moment he or she had lived while listening to music. The deductive and inductive analyses of the data resulted in the following matrix: five categories of sign description; four categories of object types; two categories of occurrence of the emotional interpretant; two categories of energetic interpretant and three of logical interpretant; considerations regarding habit in three aspects: maintenance of the emotional state, use of music as background and use of music for physical exertion. The categorization of the reports associated with other strategies offers a representational framework of the conceptual universe of music. This representation makes possible the sharing of experiences, respecting the semantic variations that are proper and necessary for their verbalization.