ABSTRACT
The two most important surfaceless spaces are the space of the felt-body and the space of feelings as atmospheres. An atmosphere is a total or partial – in any case, considerably extended – occupation of a surfaceless space in the region of that which is lived as present in a particular case. Some atmospheres, like weather and silence, extend completely throughout the lived present and can be, but are often not, feelings. All atmospheres are intensive magnitudes. They reveal differences of magnitude, such as in cases of solemn or oppressive silence, which can be powerfully gripping feelings. Acoustic and, in particular, musical forms are among the carriers of atmospheres of feeling via corpus-proximate bridging qualities. Their place among such carriers is exceptional in that they unify two kinds of intensity: spatial intensity, through the occupation of a surfaceless space; and the temporal intensities of duration and the properties connected with it, such as fast and slow.
