【Music】Article four: 'Digital music and critical music literacy'
The Society of Music Analysis report indicated that digital music often sits uncomfortably within a curriculum where the main focus is on the non-digi... [more]
【Music】Music-making for music teacher identity: perspectives from novice music teachers in South Korea
Music teacher identity is constructed at the intersection between musician and teacher. This study investigated the meaning of music-making among Kore... [more]
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Archives of the Dance (28): Chisenhale Dance Space
This contribution to the 'Archives of the Dance' series explores Chisenhale Dance Space's collection and my work with it as a PhD researcher. My re...
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Dance matters: dancing in Tunisia
A Tunisian youth movement, Dancers Citizens South (DCS), founded on 31 May 2015, encourages young people to find agency in their communities by creati...
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Robotic interface for embodied interaction via dance and musical performance
A substantial robotic interface is proposed for collaborative work between humans and machines in a multimodal musical environment. The robotic interface is regarded as a moving instrument that displays the reactive motion on a stage,while producing sound
Music via motion: Transdomain mapping of motion and sound for interactive performances
This paper presents a framework called Music via Motion (MvM) designed for the transdomain mapping between physical movements of the performer(s) and multimedia events, translating activities from one creative domain to another-for example, from physical
Human-technology interaction and music perception and performance: Toward the robust design of socio
A common framework for studying perception and performance in both human-technology, interaction and music is presented. The framework represents the cognitive challenges faced by both musicians and human operators in technological systems. In the percept
Teamwork in the performing arts
This paper addresses the nature of teams and teamwork in the performing arts, including symphony, chamber orchestra, chorus, and jazz, as well as musical theater straight theatre, improv, ballet, and puppetry. The results of an interview study of performi
Musings on music making and listening: Supervisory control and virtual reality
This paper offers two perspectives on the relation between music and supervisory control. The first is that music making can be viewed as a three-level hierarchy of control and feedback interactions. The top level is the composer or conductor interacting
To Offer Dance as Aesthetic Experience and Communication Among Elderly People: An Art-Based Study
As a contribution to the field of community dance, this article explores the teacher role in a setting where elderly people are offered to take part in a dance workshop. The aim of the study is to describe the role of the teacher when offering participati
Observing the Delivery of a Curriculum-Integrated Dance Programme Across Four New Zealand Primary Sc
This paper explains the design, development and delivery of a curriculum-integrated dance programme across four primary schools in Auckland, New Zealand. Four teachers and their respective classes (101 children in total) were part of the programme. Each c
Colours on the surface of my body in motion: The relationship between synaesthesia and dance improvi
In synaesthesia, the stimulation of one sense or cognitive concept simultaneously and involuntarily produces a sensation in a second sense or cognitive experience. While synaesthesia has been investigated from neuroscience and psychology to social science
Applying Critical Consciousness to Dance/Movement Therapy Pedagogy and the Politics of the Body
Dance/movement therapy (DMT) is a profession and cultural community with its own habitus, assumptions, and biases. Because of the profession's progressive and unique embodied-dance approach to psychotherapy, the lack of social critique of the inherent '
(Re-) Defining Dance/Movement Therapy Fifty Years Hence
The cultural turn of the 1980s suggests re-visiting the definition of Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) for the purposes of understanding the power the language has in shaping the profession. Such re-examination of the original American Dance Therapy Associati
Dynamics of brain activity in motor and frontal cortical areas during music listening: a magnetoence
There are formidable problems in studying how 'real' music engages the brain over wide ranges of temporal scales extending from milliseconds to a lifetime. In this work, we recorded the magneto-encephalographic signal while subjects listened to music as
Rap music genres and deviant behaviors in French-Canadian adolescents
This study investigated the links between the preference for 4 rap music genres (American rap, French rap, hip hop/soul, and gangsta/hardcore rap) and 5 types of deviant behaviors in adolescence (violence, theft, street gangs, mild drug use, and hard drug
Noise exposure of music teachers
A noise exposure survey it-as performed to assess the risk of hearing loss to school music teachers during, the course of their activities. Noise exposure of 18 teachers from 15 schools was measured using noise dosimeters. The equivalent continuous noise
Recorded music and practices of remembering
Despite a resurgence of work that has begun to examine critically the artefactual mediation of memory, very few accounts have focused upon the interconnections between recorded music and daily acts of remembering. Drawing upon in-depth case study-based re
Music preference correlates of Jungian types
The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationship between personality and music preferences, using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. It was hypothesized that the sensing-intuition dimension would correlate with overall musical enjoyment. Thu