
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)
Serena Allegra argues the history of music is also an archive of experiments on human connection, carried out over centuries
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)
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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)
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)
#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience
Hauke Egermann runs through a solid set of live concert studies to discus how social bonding in the audience can create social connection. Amazing body of work that shows the importance/interaction of spatial co-presence and temporal simultaneously
#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
#MUSICONNEX Day 2 keynote by Hauke Egermann about social bonding in the audience. New tools for live music research and great conceptual framework to bring the crucial elements under the focus of #musicscience
#musicconnex is a blast so far! Getting the word out about how we can study the dynamic, situated, and contextual experience of music #musicscience
Niels Chr. Hansen speaks to music for coping with different types of crises (both personal and societal).
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