Synchronizacja oparta na rytmie jako przedrefleksyjna matryca komunikacji społecznej

Justyna Herda

doi:10.18290/rkult25164.8

Published : 2025-12-15

Vol. 16 No. 4 (2025)

Rhythm-Based Synchronization as a Pre-Reflective Matrix of Social Communication

Justyna Herda

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6775-6385

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rkult25164.8

Abstract

The aim of this article is to explore the relationship between music (and particularly one of its components – rhythm) and social life from a philosophical-cognitive perspective, using the tools of phenomenology of the body, embodied cognition, and results of neuroscientific and cognitive scientific research.

The authors put forward a thesis that rhythmic synchronization, which can manifest at various levels of material organization, from the subcellular to the social one, is the most fundamental, bodily form of communication, creating and strengthening bonds, and thus creating human communities. Rhythm constitutes the fundamental structure of experiencing the world and social communication, thus locating the subject in the world. This type of synchronization can occur during shared listening to music, playing instruments, or engaging in shared rhythmic behaviors.

The emerging motor-affective resonance is not based on reading the minds of others, but rather emerges as a response to rhythm, which is no longer merely a temporal ordering but a structure for social experience. Shared rhythms enable the creation of an affective field in which individuals experience mutual belonging, simultaneity, and cooperation. Rhythmic synchronization between participants in diverse activities can therefore constitute a pre-linguistic and pre-reflective communication matrix.

This article highlights also the fact that the phenomenon of affective synchronization, as a matrix for social relations and communication, is particularly significant in the context of developing digital technologies and virtual worlds. On the one hand, this situation raises numerous new psychological and social issues demanding attention, and on the other, it uncloses a new cognitive realm open to empirical research and philosophical reflection.

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music, rhythm, synchronization, social communication, emotions, digital technologies

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Herda, J. (2025). Rhythm-Based Synchronization as a Pre-Reflective Matrix of Social Communication. Roczniki Kulturoznawcze, 16(4), 131–148. https://doi.org/10.18290/rkult25164.8

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