ArticleScientific reports2023
Audience synchronies in live concerts illustrate the embodiment of music experience.
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- Exploring movement entrainment in an ecologically valid concert setting.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- From Lab to Concert Hall: Effects of Live Performance on Neural Entrainment and Engagement.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The effect of social settings and olfactory environments on spontaneous movement synchrony.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Physiological audience synchrony in classical concerts linked with listeners' experiences and attitudes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Culture, sex and social context influence brain-to-brain synchrony: an fNIRS hyperscanning study.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Reliability for music-induced heart rate synchronization.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
A study of 132 audience members of three classical public concerts (all three staged the same chamber music pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, Brett Dean, and Johannes Brahms) had the goal of analyzing the physiological and motor responses of audiences. It was assumed that the music would induce synchronous physiology and movement in listeners (induction synchrony). In addition to hypothesizing that such synchronies would be present, we expected that they were linked to participants' aesthetic experiences, their affect and personality traits, which were assessed by questionnaires before and after the concerts. Clear evidence was found of physiological synchrony (heart rate, respiration rate, skin conductance response) as well as movement synchrony of the audiences, whereas breathing behavior was not synchronized. Thus the audiences of the three concerts resonated with the music, their music perception was embodied. There were links between the bodily synchrony and aesthetic experiences: synchrony, especially heart-rate synchrony, was higher when listeners felt moved emotionally and inspired by a piece, and were immersed in the music. Personality traits were also associated with the individual contributions to induction synchrony.
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