Emotional entrainment in music performance

Abstract

This work aims at defining a computational model of emotional entrainment. Music, as a non-verbal to express emotions, is chosen as an ideal test for these aims. We start from multimodal gesture and signals, recorded in a real world collaborative in an ecological setting. Four violin players asked to play, alone or in duo, a music fragment in different perceptual feedback modalities and in four emotional states. We focused our attention on Synchronisation of the head motions of the players. observation by subjects (musicians and observers), evidence of entrainment emerges between players. The results, based on a reduced data set, however not grasp fully this phenomenon. A more extended analysis is current subject of investigation. © 2008 IE.