Description
In social interactions, coordination, or the temporal covariation of two or more signals, occurs between people in different modalities (e.g., behaviors, speech/language, and physiology). For example, two peoples’ heart rates may become coupled as they have a conversation. Increasingly, a growing body of work shows that certain patterns of coordination can function toward facilitating effective interaction processes and outcomes such as psychotherapy effectiveness, relationship satisfaction, and teamwork (Halgas et al., 2022; Palumbo et al., 2017; Wiltshire et al., 2020). In the case of collaboratively creating with others, such as in musical improvisation, coordination is not yet well understood. And it can occur with varying degrees of intentionality, in the aforementioned modalities, as well as in the creative modalities being improvised (e.g., piano, drums, etc,). In this talk, I discuss the coordination dynamics framework for understanding the role of coordination in collaborative creativity. I then discuss a few empirical examples looking at dyadic movement improvisation and dyadic and triadic musical improvisation (Vaarten & Wiltshire, 2023; Wiltshire & Fairhurst, 2023). Lastly, I will detail some recent methodological work evaluating several multivariate measures of coordination applied to group movements (Hudson et al., 2022). I’ll conclude by identifying gaps that are needed to be addressed to better understand the coordination dynamics that underpin collaborative creativity in music production.| Period | 22 Feb 2024 |
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| Held at | Center for Music in the Brain, Denmark |
| Degree of Recognition | International |