mahgister, very interesting what you say. I’m particularly interested in the word "gesture." What exactly do you mean by a musical gesture?
As i said i am not a musician and frogman could explain it better than me...
But "a musical gesture" is an embodied rythm... Speech is born from embodied rythm as music is born from it too...
In an embodied rythm, musical time is internal to the gesture not external...
Poetry as music are grounded in embodied rythms...
This embodied rythm transcend all distinction of styles, genres, or the difference between written music and interpretation..
Why ?
Because the distance or the frontier separating improvisation from written music is created historically on the surface of the gesturing body of the speaker or of the musician... The embodied rythm is the hidden dimension, the fundamental musical qualia, the underground or the roots of all music...
This is why i could compared speaking about the musical time of musician as different as African yoruba master or Furtwangler... And Jazz musicians between these two extremes...
The meaning of music is in the embodied rythm in the gesture... The gesture express the musician body and instrument "timbre" which is a universal of music...The vibrating sound source , violin, drum, singer body, communicate an information about his internal state, his timbre, conveyed by an internal time and timing rythm like a breathing which cannot be captured completely by metronome abstraction...It can be abstractly described but the cost may be loosing his life...
It is why the african master said, this do not "roll"...
It is why Miles said, this "lag behind the beat"...
It is why Gergiev said about Furtwangler that he was among all maestro one who was able to let the music grow with and from his internal time without imposing any external time on it...The music cannot be separated from his timing embodied rythm...
I personaly think music and speech are born from the necessity from the mother communicating with his baby and calming it for survival...The mother body in synch with the baby body...It is also born from the males hunting synchronisation and communication... Hunting is silent music or rythm and speech too... Embodied gestures means gestures executed as a rythm not in a discontinuous way but in a continuous flow...
In a collective hunt you must be spontaneously act in an organized musical way...