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Abstract
This paper presents the methodology and some results from a British Academy-funded collaboration, the ‘Improvising Duos’ project. We recorded video, audio and kinematic data from 24 improvising musicians in 12 duo pairings, with the aim of analysing emergent properties of their joint performance. We set out to explore the extent to which observers could demonstrably judge ‘real’ versus ‘fake’ musician duos, thus making the behavioural manifestation of the musical interaction process into the object of analysis. We used 3D motion-capture animations of the duos to create a set of stimuli. These ten-second excerpts of duo performance included both authentic (‘real’) duos and but also ‘fake’ duos spliced from two different duo pairs. In an experiment, participants watched the animations and judged the authenticity of the improvising duo. Formally-trained musician participants were able to discriminate reliably between genuine versus synthetic duos.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 22 Nov 2013 |
Event | Researching music as process: methods and approaches - University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Duration: 22 Nov 2013 → 22 Nov 2013 |
Conference
Conference | Researching music as process: methods and approaches |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Oxford |
Period | 22/11/13 → 22/11/13 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- music performance
- social interaction
- nonverbal communication
- improvisation
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