{"id":651,"date":"2023-10-05T07:46:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T07:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/?page_id=651"},"modified":"2023-10-13T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:23:50","slug":"cognitive-effort-and-experiences-of-togetherness-in-classical-duo-playing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/about\/cognitive-effort-and-experiences-of-togetherness-in-classical-duo-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Effort and Experiences of Togetherness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5180-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"279\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5180-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/about\/img_5180\/\" class=\"wp-image-279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5180-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5180-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5180-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5180-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5180-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5180-1568x1176.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Faure-duo6-1024x724.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"655\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Faure-duo6.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/faure-duo6\/\" class=\"wp-image-655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Faure-duo6-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Faure-duo6-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Faure-duo6-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Faure-duo6-1536x1087.png 1536w, https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Faure-duo6-2048x1449.png 2048w, https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Faure-duo6-1568x1109.png 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">(1) Photo from a Lied duo recording session featuring musicians wearing eye-tracking glasses and suits for motion capture. (2) Plot showing togetherness ratings given by a singer and pianist pair for one of their performances (high numbers on the y-axis indicate high togetherness). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Playing music as part of a group can be challenging, but it can also be rewarding when the performance goes well. Ensemble playing can lead to feelings of enjoyment, aesthetic pleasure, and social connection between performers, which we refer to as &#8220;musical togetherness&#8221;. In this study, we test the hypothesis that ensemble players&#8217; body rhythms support their feelings of togetherness. We also test the hypothesis that experiences of togetherness are cognitively engaging and therefore evoke cognitive effort (which can be indexed through pupil size measurements).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singer-piano duos participated in the study. They performed two Lieder as we captured their head motion, breathing patterns, and pupil size. Afterwards, they rated how together they felt using a continuous scale while watching and listening to their recorded performance. Our analysis investigates how synchrony in head motion, synchrony in breathing, and pupil size changes relate to musicians&#8217; ratings of togetherness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary results from this study were presented at RPPW in June 2023: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bishop, L., Niemand, A., D&#8217;Amario, S. and Goebl, W. (2023) Coordinated head motion predicts cognitive effort and experiences of musical togetherness in singing-piano duos. Paper presented at the 19th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop, Nottingham, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing music as part of a group can be challenging, but it can also be rewarding when the performance goes well. Ensemble playing can lead to feelings of enjoyment, aesthetic pleasure, and social connection between performers, which we refer to as &#8220;musical togetherness&#8221;. In this study, we test the hypothesis that ensemble players&#8217; body rhythms<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/about\/cognitive-effort-and-experiences-of-togetherness-in-classical-duo-playing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Cognitive Effort and Experiences of Togetherness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651\/revisions\/669"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdw.ac.at\/togetherness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}