Call for Participants
Interpersonal Entrainment in Music Performance
Open Workshop, Durham University, Thursday 9th March 2017
We invite expressions of interest from researchers wishing to participate in a workshop on musical entrainment. The workshop is linked to the AHRC-funded project ‘Interpersonal Entrainment in Music Performance’ (investigators Martin Clayton, Tuomas Eerola, Peter Keller and Antonio Camurri). Researchers involved in the project, which brings together research groups at Durham, Western Sydney and Genoa universities, will lead the workshop. The project aims to develop methods for (a) studying interpersonal entrainment in a wide variety of music genres using audiovisual recordings, (b) exploring – also cross-culturally – listeners’ preferences and ability to discriminate between different patterns of entrainment in sound files, and (c) relating entrainment dynamics to social and cultural factors.
Workshop activities will include both presentations on the topic and the approach of the IEMP project, and interactive sessions exploring particular areas of theory and analytical method, such as (a) entrainment analysis using audio onset data, (b) entrainment analysis using movement data extracted from video, and (c) discussion of the relationship between empirical analysis and ethnographic or contextual information.
For more details of the project, see musicscience.net/projects/iemp/
Expressions of interest from (typically) postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers should be sent to project administrator Jacky Pankhurst (jacqueline.pankhurst@xxxxxxxxxxxx) by 31st January 2017. Limited funds are available to support the travel of postgraduate students to attend the session: please indicate if you wish to be considered for a bursary.