What the Music of the Body Might Be

International Body Music Festival

"As the being-in-itself of our own body, as that which the body is besides being object of perception, namely representation, the will, as we have said, proclaims itself first of all in the voluntary movements of this body, insofar as these movements are nothing but the visibility of the individual acts of the will. These movements appear directly and simultaneously with those acts of will; they are one and the same thing with them, and are distinguished from them only by the form of perceptibility into which they have passed, that is to say, in which they have become representation" ("The World as Will" 73).