Abstract

Anthropology of Music / Chronolysis is an interdisciplinary theoretical work that examines music as a fundamental anthropological phenomenon operating at the intersection of time, perception, embodiment, and culture. Rather than treating music solely as an aesthetic or symbolic system, the text approaches sound as a primary mode of human temporal experience. The concept of chronolysis is introduced to describe the dissolution and reconfiguration of linear time through musical sound. Chronolysis refers to the process by which music alters temporal perception, suspends chronological order, and generates expanded or transformed states of consciousness. This framework is developed through dialogue with philosophy, phenomenology, psychoacoustics, cultural anthropology, and sound studies. The work integrates theoretical analysis with long-term artistic research conducted within the Lux Aeterna Light and Music Theatre and related interdisciplinary practices. Particular attention is given to music as a multisensory, embodied, and emotionally operative phenomenon capable of shaping cognition, affect, and existential meaning. Anthropology of Music / Chronolysis proposes a model in which sound functions as an active anthropological agent—structuring human experience of time, mediating inner states, and contributing to processes of cultural continuity and transformation. The publication is intended for researchers in anthropology of music, sound studies, philosophy of art, neuroaesthetics, and interdisciplinary artistic research.