Judgment of togetherness in performances by musical duos

Frontiers in Psychology

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Sara D'Amario¹  Werner Goebl¹  Laura Bishop² 

[1] Department of Music Acoustics, Wiener Klangstil ,(IWK), mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna;RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, University of Oslo;Department of Musicology, University of Oslo

关键词: togetherness;    ensemble performance;    motion capture;    joint-actions;    music perception;    Flow;    interpersonal synchronization;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.997752

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Musicians experience varying degrees of togetherness with their co-performers when playing in ensembles. However, little is know\sara{n} about how togetherness is experienced by audiences and how interpersonal dynamics in body motion and sound support the judgment of togetherness. This research investigates audience sensitivity to audio and visual markers of interperformer coordination and expressivity in ensembles, in relation to modality of stimulus presentation and audience music background. A set of duo ensemble performances, comprising motion capture recordings of the musicians’ upper bodies and instruments, were presented to participants with varying music background, including novices and semi-professional musicians. Participants were required to: i) watch and listen, ii) only watch, and iii) only listen to the selected recordings, whilst providing dynamic ratings of how much togetherness between musicians they perceived. Results demonstrate that sound intensity and similarity in right arm motion (quantified using cross-wavelet transform analysis) were significant predictors of \sara{rated} togetherness in novices, whilst sound synchronization and chest motion coordination predicted togetherness responses in semi-professional musicians. These results suggest the relevance of the quality of body motion coordination and of certain features of the audio outputs in the audience perception of togetherness. This research contributes to a better understanding of the perceptual mechanisms supporting socio-cognitive judgments of joint action activities.

【 授权许可】

CC BY