The influence of cellist's postural movements on their musical expressivity

Roze, Jocelyn; Aramaki, Mitsuko; Kronland‐Martinet, Richard; Ystad, Sølvi

doi:10.1121/1.4988387

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“…In line with this interpretation, similar effects have been observed in solo string players during various forms of perturbations. First, enhanced metrical coupling between head and bow motion, reduced head motion and shifts toward movements at faster metrical timescales all occurred spontaneously and without much change in bow motion properties when cellists had their posture constrained (Rozé et al, 2017(Rozé et al, , 2019(Rozé et al, , 2020. Next, violists' head motion changed (and most often diminished) when their bow strokes were constrained as well (Visi et al, 2014).…”

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Interpersonal sensorimotor communication shapes intrapersonal coordination in a musical ensemble

Laroche

Tomassini²,

Volpe³

et al. 2022

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Social behaviors rely on the coordination of multiple effectors within one’s own body as well as between the interacting bodies. However, little is known about how coupling at the interpersonal level impacts coordination among body parts at the intrapersonal level, especially in ecological, complex, situations. Here, we perturbed interpersonal sensorimotor communication in violin players of an orchestra and investigated how this impacted musicians’ intrapersonal movements coordination. More precisely, first section violinists were asked to turn their back to the conductor and to face the second section of violinists, who still faced the conductor. Motion capture of head and bow kinematics showed that altering the usual interpersonal coupling scheme increased intrapersonal coordination. Our perturbation also induced smaller yet more complex head movements, which spanned multiple, faster timescales that closely matched the metrical levels of the musical score. Importantly, perturbation differentially increased intrapersonal coordination across these timescales. We interpret this behavioral shift as a sensorimotor strategy that exploits periodical movements to effectively tune sensory processing in time and allows coping with the disruption in the interpersonal coupling scheme. As such, head movements, which are usually deemed to fulfill communicative functions, may possibly be adapted to help regulate own performance in time.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Interpersonal sensorimotor communication shapes intrapersonal coordination in a musical ensemble

Laroche

Tomassini²,

Volpe³

et al. 2022

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…We are aware that these kinds of physical constraints raise an epistemological issue, since bowing or acoustic alterations may result from other factors than the only limitation of postural movements, such as physical, psychological discomfort, estrangement from the concert situation... All the selected cellists were professional or very experimented, to ensure that no kind of technical weaknesses would potentially result in a lack of expressivity. These two experimental conditions are part of a larger experiment thoroughly described in [14].…”

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“…This study falls within a more global experimental context of sound-gesture relationship for the cello players in musical performance situations [14]. Related works explored the instrumentalists' postural movements for the clarinet [6], the piano [16], the harp [3], or the violin [17].…”

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Eluding the Influence of Postural Constraints on Cellists’ Bowing Movements and Timbral Quality

Roze

Kronland‐Martinet

Aramaki

et al. 2017

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While playing expressively, cellists tend to produce postural movements, which seem to be part of their musical discourse. This article describes how their instrumental bowing gestures and timbral features of the produced sounds may be affected when constraining these postural (or ancillary) movements. We focus here on a specific acoustic timbre alteration qualified as harshness in the constrained condition. A method based on Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) is used to extract the correlations between the bowing displacement and the sound rendition with and without postural constraint among several cellists. Then a detailed investigation of the covariation between gestural and sound data for the duration of the note is carried out, using Functional Data Analysis (FDA) techniques. Results reveal interesting effects of the postural constraint on the coupling patterns between the bowing movement and the spectro-temporal acoustical features.

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The influence of cellist's postural movements on their musical expressivity

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Interpersonal sensorimotor communication shapes intrapersonal coordination in a musical ensemble

Interpersonal sensorimotor communication shapes intrapersonal coordination in a musical ensemble

Eluding the Influence of Postural Constraints on Cellists’ Bowing Movements and Timbral Quality

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