Joint actions and empathy in Jazz improvisations
Joint actions and empathy in Jazz improvisations
This research project aims at investigating the communicative processes in free improvisations of Jazz duos. Drawing on research in music psychology and studies on joint actions in psychology, we investigate the interactions of visual (bodily) and auditory (musical) information when performing together. 3D Motion capture, audio recordings and empathy inventories are employed to analyse the multilayered facets of these creative processes from the perspectives of the dyads and the audience.
Principal investigator
Prof. Dr. Clemens Wöllner
Main collaborator
Vassilis Sevdalis, University of Cologne
Research staff
Jesper Hohagen
Publications
Sevdalis, V. & Wöllner, C. (2015). Capturing motion for enhancing performance: An embodied cognition perspective on sports and the performing arts. In: M. Raab, B. Lobinger, S. Hoffmann, A. Pizzera, & S. Laborde (eds.), Performance psychology. Perception, action, cognition, and emotion (pp. 223–234). Amsterdam: Academic Press/Elsevier.
Wöllner, C. (in press). Audience responses in the light of perception-action theories of empathy. In E. King & C. Waddington (eds.), Music and empathy. Farnham: Ashgate.
- Dauer: 2016-2018
- Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Clemens Wöllner