When listening to music, we naturally move our bodies rhythmically to the beat, which can
be pleasurable and difficult to resist. This pleasurable sensation of wanting to move the body …

Music is thought to engage its listeners by driving feelings of surprise, tension, and relief
through a dynamic mixture of predictable and unpredictable patterns, a property …

What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so,
how might that creativity inform their practice and that of others in related artistic spheres …

Both movement and neural activity in humans can be entrained by the regularities of an
external stimulus, such as the beat of musical rhythms. Neural entrainment to auditory …

Jazz music that swings has the fascinating power to elicit a pleasant sensation of flow in
listeners and the desire to synchronize body movements with the music. Whether …

Musical sequences are correlated dynamical processes that may differ depending on
musical styles. We aim to quantify the correlations through power spectral analysis of pitch …

Healthy human heart rate fluctuates overtime showing long-range fractal correlations. In
contrast, various cardiac diseases and normal aging show the breakdown of fractal …

We report psychophysical experiments and time series analyses to investigate sensorimotor
tap** strength fluctuations in human periodic tap** with and without a metronome. The …

We explored how drummers express a 'back-beat'pattern with different timing styles (laid-
back, on-beat, pushed) via stroke onset and intensity features. Based on hierarchical …

This practice-based multi-media study sets out to reveal how procedural methodologies
effect transformative change in a polyrhythmic drum-set idiolect, premised on the idea that …