Microtiming in Swing and Funk affects the body movement behavior of music expert listeners

Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Senn, Olivier

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01232

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“…Several studies have shown that exposure to music induces a number of physiological and psychological reactions in humans (Blood and Zatorre, 2001;Hodges, 2009;Janata et al, 2012). More particularly, music can induce spontaneous body movement either as simple as tapping and nodding, or as complex as full-body movements (Madison, 2006;Kilchenmann and Senn, 2015;.…”

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Analysis of the Movement-Inducing Effects of Music through the Fractality of Head Sway during Standstill

González-Sánchez

Żelechowska

Jensenius

2019

Journal of Motor Behavior

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The links between music and human movement have been shown to provide insight into crucial aspects of human's perception, cognition, and sensorimotor systems. In this study, we examined the influence of music on movement during standstill by analyzing head sway fractality, with the aim of further characterizing the correspondences between movement, music, and cognition. Eighty seven participants were asked to stand as still as possible for 500 seconds while being presented with alternating silence and musical stimuli. The auditory stimuli were all rhythmic in nature, ranging from a metronome track to complex electronic dance music. The head position of each participant was captured with an optical motion capture system. Long-range correlations of head movement were estimated by detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA). The results support findings from previous work on the movement-inducing effect of music, showing significantly greater head sway and lower head sway fractality during the music stimuli. In addition, the patterns across stimuli suggest that there is a two-way adaptation process, with the music stimuli influencing head sway while at the same time fractality modulated movement responses. The results indicate that fluctuations in head movement in both conditions exhibit long-range correlations, suggesting that the effects of music on head movement depended not only on the value of the most recent measured intervals, but also on the values of those intervals at distant times.

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Analysis of the Movement-Inducing Effects of Music through the Fractality of Head Sway during Standstill

González-Sánchez

Żelechowska

Jensenius

2019

Journal of Motor Behavior

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“…Kilchenmann and Senn ( 2015 ) addressed the claims of PD theory and the exactitude hypothesis by measuring the actual bodily entrainment response to microtiming manipulations in swing and funk music examples, using video-based motion tracking technology. The data suggest that the timing manipulations had significant effects on the behavior of music expert listeners, while no effects were measured in non-expert listeners.…”

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The Effect of Expert Performance Microtiming on Listeners' Experience of Groove in Swing or Funk Music

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This study tested the influence of expert performance microtiming on listeners' experience of groove. Two professional rhythm section performances (bass/drums) in swing and funk style were recorded, and the performances' original microtemporal deviations from a regular metronomic grid were scaled to several levels of magnitude. Music expert (n = 79) and non-expert (n = 81) listeners rated the groove qualities of stimuli using a newly developed questionnaire that measures three dimensions of the groove experience (Entrainment, Enjoyment, and the absence of Irritation). Findings show that music expert listeners were more sensitive to microtiming manipulations than non-experts. Across both expertise groups and for both styles, groove ratings were high for microtiming magnitudes equal or smaller than those originally performed and decreased for exaggerated microtiming magnitudes. In particular, both the fully quantized music and the music with the originally performed microtiming pattern were rated equally high on groove. This means that neither the claims of PD theory (that microtiming deviations are necessary for groove) nor the opposing exactitude hypothesis (that microtiming deviations are detrimental to groove) were supported by the data.

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“…77The fact that most empirical psychological experiments have failed to show that microtiming is positively related to groove does not mean that it is undeserving of the attention given in musicology and ethnomusicology. Rather, as Klichenmann and Senn () have shown, it seems to matter greatly how these rhythmic nuances are implemented, and the conditions under which microtiming is effective have been difficult to recreate in a laboratory setting.…”

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Filling In: Syncopation, Pleasure and Distributed Embodiment in Groove

Witek¹

2016

Music Analysis

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What is it about groove in music that makes people move? And what explains the physical pleasure listeners and dancers experience as they synchronise their bodies to the beat? In this article, groove is analysed phenomenologically as a triangulation of rhythmic structure, embodiment and pleasure. Following a brief review of groove research, theories of extended mind and affective practice are added to demonstrate how groove is distributed amongst mind, body and music. In this distributed process, pleasure is not caused by some cognitive‐physical stimulation, but rather emerges dynamically in the active participation in a cyclical mind‐body‐music system. The syncopated nature of the music provides the structural premise for the embodied extension. By opening up empty spaces in the rhythm – as illustrated in the house track ‘Drum Track’, by Helix (2012) – syncopations invite the body to fill in through entrainment and synchronised movement. When filling in the gaps, listeners and dancers enact aspects of the musical structure and thus become part of the groove itself. Rejecting drive‐oriented models, this article argues that it is the process in action, rather than the achievement, that makes groove pleasurable, and it makes suggestions for how this process might be socially distributed.

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Microtiming in Swing and Funk affects the body movement behavior of music expert listeners

Cited by 50 publications

References 53 publications

Analysis of the Movement-Inducing Effects of Music through the Fractality of Head Sway during Standstill

Analysis of the Movement-Inducing Effects of Music through the Fractality of Head Sway during Standstill

The Effect of Expert Performance Microtiming on Listeners' Experience of Groove in Swing or Funk Music

Filling In: Syncopation, Pleasure and Distributed Embodiment in Groove

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