Barthes: Crystallize Lindsey Sterling

"it is a muscular music; in it the auditive sense has only a degree of sanction: as if the body was listening, not the "soul"; this music is not played "by heart"; confronting the key board or the music stand, the body proposes, leads, coordinates - the body itself must transcribe what it reads: it fabricates sound and sense: it is the scriptor, not the receiver; the decoder"

Original:

In this quotation on "music you play", Barthes labels the body, not the voice, as the 'decoder' of the music that is being performed. In this regard, the body is acting as the translator between that which signifies the music and the music itself. Barthes uses the example of the key board and the music stand to exemplifies this. The key board and the music stand is the medium in which the body is able to translate the codes that it deciphers. The codes can be the received thoughts, signs, and musical notes that guides the performer to produce the melodic sound that is music. It is a type of music that can only be done through physical means, hence Barthes's use of the term 'muscular'. In my example with Lindsey Sterling's  'Crystallize', the musician utilizes an external instrument, the violin, to script the signals received by her senses into a 'muscular music' that progresses throughout the duration of the song.

Question: Would Barthes consider dancing as an act that can 'play' music?

Updated:

In this quotation on the playable type of music, Barthes labels the body, not the voice or the 'soul', as the 'decoder' of the music. This means that music is no longer being created through the expression of the voice but from the proposition, lead, and coordination of the movement of the body as it confronts a piece of implementation that can perform that task in the place of a voice. In this regard, the body is acting as the translator between the instruments that signifies music and the form of the music. Barthes uses the example of the key board and the music stand to exemplifies this. The key board and the stand is the medium in which the body expresses the musical codes that it perceives and deciphers. These codes can be received in the form of thoughts, visual cues, and sound just to name a few, that guides the performer's fabrication of 'sound and sense' into music. It is a type of music that can only be done through physical means, hence Barthes's uses the term 'muscular' to signify the movement of the body. In this example of Lindsey Sterling's 'Crystallize', Sterling confronts the violin as Barthes would say to script the codes of sound that she receives through her senses into a 'muscular' type of music that can only be performed through the expression of the body. This expression comes from the movement of the muscles strumming the instrument with the bow. Sterling utilizes large combinations of rapid, slow, big, and small movements to create different changes in pitch and tone. She then scripts those patterns to create a combination that is manifested as the beautiful harmony, 'Crystallize'.