In many musical styles, vocalists manually gesture while they sing. Coupling between
gesture kinematics and vocalization has been examined in speech contexts, but it is an …

In this paper, we report on a free-hand motion capture study in which 32 participants
'traced'16 melodic vocal phrases with their hands in the air in two experimental conditions …

How can the classical Karnatik music of South India illuminate performers' and researchers'
understanding of the art music of seventeenth-century Italy, and specifically Monteverdi's …

In electronic musical instruments (EMIs), the concept of “sound sculpting” was proposed by
Mulder, in which imaginary objects are manually sculpted to produce sounds, although …

In recent decades, musicologists have argued for the socio-historical contingency of the
notion of “music improvisation,” and have questioned the usefulness of the terms …

In the South Indian style known as Karnatak music, vocal teachers often spontaneously
produce elaborate manual gestures while demonstrating phrases to be imitated by their …

Embodiment lies at the core of music cognition, prompting recent pedagogical shifts towards
a multi-sensory, whole-body approach. However, the education of oral music genres that …

With the recent advent of research focusing on the body's significance in music, the
integration of physiological sensors in the context of empirical methodologies for music has …

In vocal performance contexts, vocalists tend to gesture in ways that show both similarities
and idiosyncrasies. We present a quantitative analyses and visualisation pipeline that …

Physical effort has often been regarded as a key factor of expressivity in music performance.
Nevertheless, systematic experimental approaches to the subject have been rare. In North …