Spatiotemporal Structures to Music from a Quantum Field-Theoretic Framework

In exploring the essence of music, at the ontological level, there exists the generative-structural account. The generative process and generative structure together constitute music. Today, people are exploring the possibility of mapping different structures to music, which has both practical and theoretical significance. Theoretically, it allows us to understand the nature of music and spatiotemporal structures. Practically, it establishes possibilities for multimodal music creation, which is particularly beneficial for the freedom of artistic creation by people with disabilities. While existing approaches to mapping structures to music often treat spectral and generative aspects separately, a unified theoretical and practical framework remains lacking. QFT, as a universal language for describing spatiotemporal structures and their generative processes, this work will first explore using it as a general framework to model spatiotemporal structures and generativity, and map them to musical structures. As a preliminary case study, it will be conducted on the spatiotemporal structures of EEG, considering its important significance for well-being. Secondly, from the perspectives of philosophy of art and philosophy of science, we will discuss structure and art, as well as possible debates about this method in philosophy, science, and engineering. As a proposal, this work expects to provide the first systematic quantum field-theoretic framework for structure-to-music mapping.