title: Influences of rhythm- and timbre-related musical features on characteristics of music-induced movement.
abstract: Music makes us move. Several factors can affect the characteristics of such movements, including individual factors or musical features. For this study, we investigated the effect of rhythm- and timbre-related musical features as well as tempo on movement characteristics. Sixty participants were presented with 30 musical stimuli representing different styles of popular music, and instructed to move along with the music. Optical motion capture was used to record participants' movements. Subsequently, eight movement features and four rhythm- and timbre-related musical features were computationally extracted from the data, while the tempo was assessed in a perceptual experiment. A subsequent correlational analysis revealed that, for instance, clear pulses seemed to be embodied with the whole body, i.e., by using various movement types of different body parts, whereas spectral flux and percussiveness were found to be more distinctly related to certain body parts, such as head and hand movement. A series of ANOVAs with the stimuli being divided into three groups of five stimuli each based on the tempo revealed no significant differences between the groups, suggesting that the tempo of our stimuli set failed to have an effect on the movement features. In general, the results can be linked to the framework of embodied music cognition, as they show that body movements are used to reflect, imitate, and predict musical characteristics.
authors: Department of Music, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland.
authors: Birgitta
authors: B
authors: Burger
authors: Marc R
authors: MR
authors: Thompson
authors: Geoff
authors: G
authors: Luck
authors: Suvi
authors: S
authors: Saarikallio
authors: Petri
authors: P
authors: Toiviainen
keywords: dance; motion capture; music-induced movement; musical feature extraction; pulse clarity; spectral flux
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