Receiving Performance Arts: Music Cognition and Audience Studies
Most of the time, when we are looking for a connection between music and how people move, the focus in on the movement: when the beat drops, when the feet start tapping, when people start to sway. In the Music Lab Copenhagen concert experiment, we found some of that (paper forthcoming) but more strikingly, we [ ]
I ve received requests for my opinion on SUSY, or Surrogate Synchrony, as an analysis strategy for synchrony between music-concurrent physiology measurements. In the subsequent discussion with colleagues, I have learned that many folks in this research area are unfamiliar with the math defining SUSY s limitations. Rather than sketch the issues repeatedly over email, I ve produced [ ]
In concert experiments measuring audience members and performers with a variety of sensor systems, strategies are needed to synchronise measurements across devices. In two concert experiments, we asked participants to tap to a beat on their respective accelerometer-inclusive sensor devices. The imbedded tapping signatures allowed hundreds of recordings to be aligned in time, from deviations [ ]
This last year, I served virtual technology chair for the 21st meeting of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval ISMIR 2020, a position deemed necessary when COVID-19 lockdowns began to spread. The transformation of a week-long in person conference to a week-long 24 hr virtual meeting required a whirlwind of effort from all the [ ]
I had the pleasure of attending ISMIR properly for the first time in its 20 years of bringing together music technology specialists. Through the main meeting and satellite events ran a theme of how these systems for interpreting, organising, and generating musical materials impact our musical cultures. Whether or not researchers are worried about the [ ]
Open science was a bit of a theme at this year s meeting of the Soceity of Music Perception and Cognition. Around my NYU hosting duties, I got to moderate and contributed to the Symposium on Open Science, a two part affair intended to encourage open science practices in our Music Cognition community. The whole project [ ]
Finally, my PhD dissertation is posted in full on ProQuest, open access to all. It s a bit of a behemoth at 64 MB and 441 pages, but if you want to know everything about involuntary respiratory phase alignment to music, this is the document for you. The first half is a lot of technical details [ ]
Updated version of the Activity Analysis toolbox is up on GitHub now. The changes in functions came from working with more psychophysiological measurements and events. Now there is an option to assess the coordination score for a response collection using the distributions of local rank in activity levels, instead of the distribution of activity levels [ ]
A talk and a poster discussed a number psychophysiological responses to music, specifically events measurable over repeated listenings in skin conductance, respiration rate, heart rate, and zygomaticus and corrugator contractions. The talk explains how Activity Analysis can be applied to these responses in order to identify reliable reactions to musical stimuli, and the poster shares [ ]
This year s ICMPC recorded all of the talks in support of virtual attendance. Here is my long talk (20 min + Q A) on coordination in respiration between audience members. The Audience s Breath: Collective Respiratory Coordination in Response to Music F. Upham, H. Egermann, and S. McAdams Abstract Performers have used respiratory metaphors to describe the [ ]