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Capturing the alignment between the movements of musicians and listeners with Dr. Alexander Demos
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Host Finn Upham recommends “How Music Moves Us: Entraining to Musicians’ Movements” by Alexander Demos and Roger Chaffin, published in Music Perception, 2017. They interview Dr Demos about this study and adjacent issues.
Note: This interview goes fairly deep into the challenges of time series data analysis. Feel free to use the time stamps listed in the show notes to skip ahead if this is not your cup of tea.
Time Stamps
- [0:00:10] Intro to article and Alex
- [0:03:20] Design of Air Conducting experiment
- [0:11:15] Capturing movements of performers and listeners
- [0:15:40] Assessing alignment between motion time series
- [0:25:26] Non-linearity in these time series
- [0:31:18] False negatives and intermittent alignment
- [0:38:32] Theories of Music and Ancillary motion
- [0:45:04] Closing Summary and Implications
Show notes
- Recommended article:
- Interviewee: Dr. Alexander Demos, Clinical assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (website)
- Some publications cited in the discussion:
- Schreiber, T., & Schmitz, A. (1996). Improved surrogate data for nonlinearity tests. Physical Review Letters, 77(4), 635–638.
- Cook, N. (2013). Beyond the score: Music as performance. Oxford University Press.
- Theiler, J., Eubank, S., Longtin, A., Galdrikian, B. & Farmer, J. D. (1992). Testing for nonlinearity in time series: The method of surrogate data. Physica D, 58, 77–94.
- Dean, R. T., Bailes, F., & Dunsmuir, W. T. (2014). Time series analysis of real-time music perception: Approaches to the assessment of individual and expertise differences in perception of expressed affect. Journal of Mathematics and Music, 8(3), 183-205.
- Wanderley, M. M., Vines, B. W., Middleton, N., Mckay, C., & Hatch, W. (2005). The musical significance of clarinetists’ ancillary gestures: An exploration of the field. Journal of New Music Research, 34(1), 97–113. DOI: 10.1080/092982105 00124208
Credits
The So Strangely Podcast is produced by Finn Upham, 2019. The closing music includes a sample of Diana Deutsch’s Speech-Song Illusion sound demo 1.
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Episode 3: Interactions of Metrical and Tonal Hierarchies with Bryn Hughes and guest Chris White
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Music Theorist Bryn Hughes recommends Chris White’s “Relationships Between Tonal Stability and Metrical Accent in Monophonic Contexts“, published in the Empirical Musicology Review (2017). Bryn and Finn interview Prof. White about his sequence of perceptual studies on how tonal stability may inform metrical hierarchy and vis versa, and together they discuss implications for music theory and some common issues in music cognition studies.
Show notes
- Recommended article:
- White, C. (2017). Relationships Between Tonal Stability and Metrical Accent in Monophonic Contexts. Empirical Musicology Review, 12(1-2), 19-37.
- Interviewee: Prof. Chris White, Department of Music and Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst twitter: @chriswmwhite
- Co-host: Prof. Bryn Hughes, in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge twitter: @brynmdhughes
- Papers cited in the discussion:
- Krumhansl, C. L., & Kessler, E. J. (1982). Tracing the dynamic changes in perceived tonal organization in a spatial representation of musical keys. Psychological Review, 89, 334–368. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033- 295X.89.4.334
- Lerdahl, F., & Jackendoff, R. (1983). A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Time Stamps
- [0:00:10] Intro with Prof. Bryn Hughes
- [0:11:48] Interview: Corpus studies inspiration and Study format
- [0:23:31] Interview: Effect Size and Gender as a factor
- [0:36:00] Interview: Experiment 4 and more design questions
- [0:43:34] Interview: Follow up and future work
- [0:53:33] Closing summary and surprises with Prof. Bryn Hughes
Credits
The So Strangely Podcast is produced by Finn Upham, 2018.
The closing music includes a sample of Diana Deutsch’s Speech-Song Illusion Sound Demo 1.
- Recommended article:
