Julia Vigl on music preference similarity in couples:

-couples are more similar in preferences than pseudo-couples
-fave. artist similiarity shows a small association with relationship quality

sooo interesting. #MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky

i got to talk about our work on communal, focused music listening experiences at #MUSICONNEX today.
- super interesting to think about the other sensory elements of a listening event. music is both multi-sensory and trans-temporal so there's still much to learn!

#MusicScience #MusicPsychSky

@margulisa.bsky.social runs through a stack of research on musical imagination and shared experience in a #MUSICONNEX keynote.

-fictional imagining is common
-imaginings unfold dynamically
-shared content emerges early in development but doesnt extend cross-culturally

#MusicScience

@studylistening.bsky.social explores the topic of social deep listening, a practice organised by Sonaur in Australia, through interviews. Fascinating setup for a study that reveals notions about focus, well-being & motivation to listen to music in a particular frame of mind #MusicScience #MUSICONNEX

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Nicole Koefler, Live music fosters collective effervescence and leads to lasting positive outcomes:

collective effervescence is intertwined experience of connection and sacredness felt in crowds (eg., sporting events, concerts, religious gatherings)

#MusicScience #MUSICONNEX

Serena Allegra argues the history of music is also an archive of experiments on human connection, carried out over centuries

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Alessandro Ansani, Solitropic and sociotropic tendencies as predictors for individual and social music listening:
- healthy listeners are "connected yet comfortable alone" (high sociotropism, high solitude, low isolation)

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky

Natalie Miller, on a study of live video game music concerts

-thought descriptions highlight thoughts about the concert but also social relationships and memories.
- absorption sig. predicts social connection to audience + performers + fan community

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky

But why people prefer live concerts? It is all about #connection, to the artist, to the others, to emotions, to themselves..... More to think about at #MUSICONNEX #musicscience event, and various possible solutions talked about in other presentations, including Hauke Egermann's keynote.

Margarida Baltazar, Attending concerts in-person:
- Connecting to the audience + artists, subjective experiences, personal relationships with music, and live-in-person concert characteristics.
- VIBES are important.
- Synergy with previous work we've done on format prefs.

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience

Dan Baczkowski, Effects of listener-responsive visuals and bespoke composition on social connection in a Western-classical concert setting
>highlighting that while we want to do the science, it's always the concert that comes first making this work challenging.

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Maren Hochgesand, examining audience movement at live music:
- positive association between movement entrainment and social connection at an indie rock concert and also in a dj club setting
- at the concert, ppl felt a stronger connection to musicians than other audience

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience

Adelaide Beckwith, asking how people with hearing loss engage with everyday music listening + how is this related to well-being:
- average daily listening: 2hr, 17min
- increased use of music for mood regulation assoc. w. higher WB scores

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky

Gunter Kreutz, sharing on a secondary analysis of german household data re: Leisure activities and adolescents’ wellbeing:
findings support the HYP that lack of leisure opportunities might increase mental health risks in young adolescents.

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky

Gladys Heng, Impact of music engagement on mental health and quality of life in an Asian context:
showing that a moderate amount of music listening is associated with better physical and psychological health (with the caveat that additional future work is needed)

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience

Jovana Blagojević on well-being of youth choir singers:
perceived optimism in choir buffers against anxiety, independent of age.
#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky

Jan Stupacher, talking on the pleasurable urge to move to music in people with Parkinson’s disease:
data from an experiment showing that movement synchrony adds more than a timing cue. it adds motivation and social connection as well.
#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky

@cerenayyildiz.bsky.social tells us how older adults’ musical choices for alleviating loneliness are different from the music they like; and the key ingredients are greater autobiographical memories, positive affect, & meaning. Great talk! #MUSICONNEX #musicscience

@cerenayyildiz.bsky.social--> comparing music selections older adults believe alleviate loneliness vs. music they simply like, there appears to be a difference in terms of the music being immersive/memory-based (lonely) and hedonic enjoyment/aesthetic (liked only)
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