...Nádia Moura; Sofia Serra Quantitative studies demonstrate that performers’ gestures reflect technical, communicative, and expressive aspects of musical works in solo and group performances. However, musicians’ perspectives and experiences toward body movement are little understood. To address...

... by altering the rhythm and signing space for existing lexicalized signs ( Klima & Bellugi, 1989 ; MacFarlane & Morford, 2003 ; Schick, 1990 ; Supalla, 1986 ) and by creating new “productive musical signs” that fuse with emotive gestures ( Godøy, Haga, & Jensenius, 2006 ; Johnston...

... showed that performers communicated gesturally following held notes. Gesture patterns became more consistent as duos rehearsed, though consistency dropped again during a final performance given under no-visual-contact conditions. Movements were smoother and interperformer coordination was stronger during...

...Geoff Luck; Petri Toiviainen Previous work suggests that the perception of a visual beat in conductors’ gestures is related to certain physical characteristics of the movements they produce, most notably to periods of negative acceleration, and low position in the vertical axis. These findings...