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Music Improvisation: Spatiotemporal Patterns of Coordination

Walton, Ashley, M.S.
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-8373
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1457619683

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2016, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Psychology.
Interpersonal coordination plays a key role in the dynamics and effective outcome of musical performance. Such coordination is not only characteristic of musicians performing highly practiced and structured musical scores, but it is also a dominant feature of improvised musical performance. The current study was designed to investigate the multi-scaled dynamics of the movement coordination that supports collaborative musical improvisation and performance. The spatiotemporal dynamics of movement coordination that occur between improvising musicians was captured by recording the playing behavior and body movements of pairs of improvising pianists. The structure and complexity of the performance context was manipulated (i.e., musical key, chord progression, and rhythm), as well as visual information about a musician’s co-performer. The patterning and dynamic stabilities of the inter-musician coordination that emerged from the different improvisation contexts was then examined across multiple spatial and temporal scales using a range of process-oriented nonlinear time-series techniques. It was hypothesized that the dynamic structure of a musical performance, including the emergence and stability of novel musical expressions, would not only be constrained by the structure of the musical context (i.e., backing-track, visual information), but also by the dynamic structure of inter-musician movement coordination and synergistic responsiveness (i.e., reciprocal adaptation to unexpected behavioral fluctuations).
Michael Richardson, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Anthony Chemero, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Adelheid Kloos, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Peter Langland-Hassan, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
136 p.
Behavioral Sciences
music improvisation; embodiment; movement; coordination; creativity

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  • Walton, A. (2016). Music Improvisation: Spatiotemporal Patterns of Coordination [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1457619683

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Walton, Ashley. Music Improvisation: Spatiotemporal Patterns of Coordination. 2016. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1457619683.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Walton, Ashley. "Music Improvisation: Spatiotemporal Patterns of Coordination." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1457619683

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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