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.