{"title":"Time flies","authors":"Nicola Pennill","doi":"10.2218/cim22.1a18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/cim22.1a18","url":null,"abstract":"Disciplinary background A. Music psychology. In Western classical music, participation generally involves a preparation period, and a performance. Time constraints have been shown to affect behaviour during rehearsal (Kokotsaki, 2007) and shifts in focus observed as performance approaches, from verbal communication to nonverbal interactions (King & Gritten, 2018). Disciplinary background B. Organisational science. The punctuated equilibrium model of team development (Gersick, 1991) predicts a change in behaviour at the calendar midpoint, regardless of the timeframe over which this unfolds. Later research suggests this provides a type of ‘semistructure’(Okhuysen & Waller, 2002), which, along with familiarity, norms and goals, provides a framework for working on complex tasks. Abstract This research aims to explore the group development and interactions experienced by newly-formed music ensembles as they prepare for performance. This study contributes to understanding of the role of time in the pacing and unfolding of activities in rehearsal series, using a mixed-methods approach including patterns of verbal interactions, interviews, and visual diagramming. Two newly-formed vocal quintets were studied over a three-month period. The study identified time-bracketed periods of rapid development and change, which were triggered by internal factors (interactions, feedback, new ideas) and external influences (deadlines, time constraints). Within this cultural context, the practice-based norms of Western classical music provided a source of structure and stability, whilst internal and external events were catalysts for change (Pennill & Breslin, 2021). These opposing tensions gave rise to a series of transition points and phases of development. The findings also revealed that non-conscious patterns of verbal interaction arose during the earliest interactions, became more complex to the mid-point of the rehearsal series, and then simplified as the group progressed towards their recital at the end of the study period. Qualitative data from interviews and visual diagramming with group members also supported a mid-point shift in group development. Together, these findings suggest a new, three-phase framework for small group collaboration. The study contributes to research on emergent behaviour in newly-formed groups, providing further evidence","PeriodicalId":91671,"journal":{"name":"CIM14, Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology : proceedings. Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (9th : 2014 : Berlin, Germany)","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74338178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does prosocial attitude affect creativity in musical improvisation?","authors":"Adrian Kempf, A. Schiavio","doi":"10.2218/cim22.1a13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/cim22.1a13","url":null,"abstract":"Disciplinary background A. Statement of background in Psychology of Creativity: Organizational psychology has demonstrated the importance of social dynamics for group creativity (Hennessey et al., 2020). Prosocial attitudes, e.g., feeling close to each other, can affect joint creativity in different ways (Oztop et al., 2018). It remains unclear whether such findings can be applied to other domains, such as music. Disciplinary background B. Statement of background in Musical Improvisation: Musical improvisation research includes descriptive analyses, as well as investigations based on quantitative methodologies. And although musical improvisation is often participatory, the social dynamics at the heart of such an activity have rarely been addressed from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together both approaches. Abstract The present research aims to shed light on how intra-group social dynamics shape creative musical improvisation, examining the perspectives of both improvisers and external raters. To study the impact of prosocial attitude in musical improvisation, we implemented a quasi-social improvisation task (done remotely), in which novices were invited to improvise with a virtual avatar (i.e., a moving stick-figure drummer hitting a cymbal in synchrony with a backing track). Using a virtual improvisation partner ensured comparability of outcomes; and to further reduce the variance among participants we kept the baseline of expertise consistent by only recruiting novices. Furthermore, it has been shown that prosocial attitude towards a virtual partner can increase through an imagined synchronization task (Stupacher et al., 2020). Based on this finding we demonstrated in a preliminary study (n = 65) that an overt synchronization task with the virtual drummer can increase prosocial attitude, assessed through felt closeness. Building on this research, the present empirical study involved two experimental phases: in the first phase (“improvisation”), 18 novices were invited to improvise in three conditions, each starting with a priming task. In condition 1 a neutral prime was used to not alter prosocial attitude; in condition 2 participants had to synchronously move with a black dot to a metronome, which allowed to control","PeriodicalId":91671,"journal":{"name":"CIM14, Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology : proceedings. Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (9th : 2014 : Berlin, Germany)","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83746115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Civilian wind bands as agents of non-formal and informal education","authors":"J. Cidade, João Caramelo, Alexandra Sá Costa","doi":"10.2218/cim22.1a47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/cim22.1a47","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91671,"journal":{"name":"CIM14, Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology : proceedings. Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (9th : 2014 : Berlin, Germany)","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81412434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond WEIRD and towards the decolonisation of music for wellbeing and health","authors":"Juan M. Loaiza, R. Timmers, Nikki Moran","doi":"10.2218/cim22.1a34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/cim22.1a34","url":null,"abstract":"Disciplinary background A. Background in critical anthropology of music for wellbeing and health. The recent surge of interest in how music is used in everyday life to support wellbeing and health (Sheppard & Broughton 2020; MacDonald 2013) has been characterised by an over-representation of Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic societies (WEIRD) (Bradley 2012; Henrich et al 2010). This proposal takes a critical stance regarding pervasive WEIRD biases in the current understanding of music for wellbeing and health. Disciplinary background B. Background in the embodied, ecological, and enactive -“4E”- cognitive science and the philosophy of participatory sense-making (PSM). The proposal builds on PSM and 4E’s fundamental hypothesis about mind and behaviour as shaped by the continuous coordination between body, brain, physical and social environment at and across multiple timescales (Chemero 2011; Loaiza 2016; Schiavio et al 2017; Moran 2014). Abstract Our aim is to identify an alternative understanding of music for wellbeing and health grounded in anthropological accounts of Afro-Brazilian music [9,10], and explore a theoretical framework and methodological implications that link this alternative understanding with 4E conceptions of irreducible ecology between body, mind and environment and coordination across multiple spatio-temporal-scales. WEIRD-based research conclusions have tended to endorse assumptions about music, wellbeing, and cognition that are couched in terms of individual-centred processes and internal psychological mechanisms. Anthropological accounts of, for example Afro-Brazilian music, present an important alternative understanding of music for wellbeing and health, namely music-as-health-establishing. The process of musicking in ritual and festival contexts establishes health in its maintenance and repairing of relationships (or ‘coordination’) with ancestors, each other, materials and environment (Daniel 2005).","PeriodicalId":91671,"journal":{"name":"CIM14, Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology : proceedings. Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (9th : 2014 : Berlin, Germany)","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82490314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Participation in the modernist music experience","authors":"Nena Beretin","doi":"10.2218/cim22.1a21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/cim22.1a21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91671,"journal":{"name":"CIM14, Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology : proceedings. Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (9th : 2014 : Berlin, Germany)","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88988709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biologists singing: Collective vocalization, posthuman listening, and interspecies audibility","authors":"J. Reimer","doi":"10.2218/cim22.1a29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/cim22.1a29","url":null,"abstract":"Disciplinary background A. This research draws on the tightly woven intersection of science and technology studies, posthumanism, and animal studies by investigating modes of listening and observation between species and the interfacing technologies which mediate these relationships. A field work component undertaken in collaboration with a bioacoustic amphibian laboratory interrogates the roles of ecological sciences in the formation of cross-species listening modalities. Disciplinary background B. This research critically considers notions of vocal emergence within a sound and soundscape studies context by zoning in on nonhuman acoustic communication. By considering how the embodied and participatory musical logic of choral singing might offer an experimental imagination for more-than-human choruses, I try to think alongside critically endangered chorus frogs in a speculative and arts-based form of 'choral' ethnomusicology. Abstract The aim of this research is to develop an expansive notion of chorusing which might challenge humanist notions of vocal participation. By looking to bioacoustics as a site of sonic acoustic knowledge and interspecies relation, this inquiry considers the disciplinary production of listening modalities and the musical aesthetics of ecological inquiry. The construction of the humanist liberal subject voice is bound up in a history which relies on a systematic separation of listening and sounding subjects and objects. But what about when voices join? From Greek theatre to Western musical traditions, the notion of a chorus has muddied the individuation of voice by assembling an observing or narrating mass rather than invoking a self-realizing human subject. By performing a kind of ‘audienceship,’ choral voice beckons listeners into its fold with aggregational sonic momentum. While interpreting such a phenomenon as musical may be circumscribed to the human, vocal and indeed chorusing behaviours are prevalent across species. My research focuses on locating multispecies voices as features of sympoetic (collectively making) systems as a way to interrogate the primacy of the human within interspecies sonic relationships. This inquiry into voice binds sonic materiality with auditory perception– the two caught in a perceptual loop,","PeriodicalId":91671,"journal":{"name":"CIM14, Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology : proceedings. Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (9th : 2014 : Berlin, Germany)","volume":"129 6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86928750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PLAYED: How Music and Tech Grooms Violence Against Black Girls Online","authors":"Kyra D. Gaunt","doi":"10.2218/cim22.1a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/cim22.1a6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91671,"journal":{"name":"CIM14, Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology : proceedings. Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (9th : 2014 : Berlin, Germany)","volume":"145 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87217718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Primate duet display via arboreal locomotor predictability: emergent height and variety as selecting for more complex gibbon great calls","authors":"D. Schruth","doi":"10.2218/cim22.1a59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/cim22.1a59","url":null,"abstract":"Disciplinary background A. Behavioral ecology is the science of modeling a species’ adaptive fit of their behavior to their environment (Fox and Westneat, 2010). Primates exhibit a vast array of behavioral modes and live in a wide variety of habitats across the world, but primarily in forested environs (Fleagle, 1999). Consequently, such a profusion of possible tree species exerting selection pressures on this array of primate positional and communicative modes challenges researchers with myriad habitat considerations. Presumably, such a wide variety of tree shapes, sizes, and statures should exert a corresponding diversifying selection on the behavior of its residents. This exceptional behavioral diversity of primates, incidentally makes them ideal models for testing evolutionary theories that interpenetrate the noesis of human behavior. Unlike our species, gibbons sleep in tall trees—that emerge through the forest canopies of southeast Asia—which also often serve as the primary setting for their exceptional vocal displays Alexander et al., 2018). Disciplinary background B. Many pair bonded primates participate in coinciding vocal behavior that often manifests in the form of calls with interacting male and female contributions. Socially monogamous gibbons (Geissmann, 1986), tarsiers (Clink, Tasirin and Klink, 2020), and callitrichids (Muller and Anzenberger, 2002) produce mutable vocal duets that feature such acoustic patterning. Gibbons, in particular, routinely exhibit duetting behaviors in all but a few species. The females’ “great call” forms the center-piece of such elaborate displays—often featuring a diversity of syllables which typically increase in frequency and accelerate into a rapid series of upward frequency sweeps (Raemaekers, Raemaekers and Haimoff, 1984) blurring repetition into both transposition and trill. Theories on the function of these calls range from resource spacing Mitani, 1985), to pair-bonding and mate attraction (Geissmann, 1986). But few studies to date have looked at various features, especially in combination, and how display structure could relate to ecology. Abstract Such structured patterning (e.g. rhythm)","PeriodicalId":91671,"journal":{"name":"CIM14, Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology : proceedings. Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (9th : 2014 : Berlin, Germany)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89281483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}