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Collective music makers and music listeners: Anticipatory synchronization in a quartet of synchronizing drummers and an enhanced embodied response to music in collective setting| old_uid | 17582 |
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| title | Collective music makers and music listeners: Anticipatory synchronization in a quartet of synchronizing drummers and an enhanced embodied response to music in collective setting |
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| start_date | 2019/03/28 |
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| schedule | 10h30-12h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Music and other social interactions often involve groups larger than dyads. From a mechanistic perspective the accumulation of variability, delays, and N-way “mirroring systems” from each member should hinder performance and experience in larger groups but this is not the case. In one study, we examined 4-person drumming circles of non-professional musicians performing a synchronization-coordination task in Solo and Group conditions. As expected, the lag-1 auto-correlations of inter-beat intervals in the Solo, Group, and Individuals-in-Group modalities were negative, suggestive of self-correction. Importantly, cross-correlations between pairs during group performances were positive at both lag-0 and lag-1, a signature of anticipatory synchronization. In contrast, dyad studies typically report positive lag-1 and negative lag-0 cross-correlations, indicative of mutually reactive inter-personal dynamics. Arguably, the central moment of group timing acts as stabilizing feedback and allows for mutual anticipation. Alternatively, the possibility for anticipatory synchronization could be due to the dynamic similarity among participants. Unlike typical finger-tapping studies, here the task was subject to the biomechanical enabling constraints associated with using the whole upper body to drum. In a different study, we examined embodied response to music in collective setting with higher (eyes-open) and lower (eyes-closed) inter-personal coupling. We found that the movement energy was enhanced by groove and by seeing the rest of the audience, consistent with social facilitation, and we found evidence for inter-personal synchronization. Yet, these two effects appeared to be independent. This brings forth the limitations associated with reducing joint action to a construct of linear synchronization. |
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| responsibles | Marin |
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