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SUMMARY:Exploring overlapping cognition in music making - Dr Neta Spiro (R
 esearch Fellow in Performance Science at the Royal College of Music)
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DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nTo what extent and in what ways do participants 
 who just made music together understand what they were doing in the same w
 ay? In this talk\, I’ll explore this question drawing on case studies in
  a range of music making contexts: improvisation on a jazz standard\, free
  improvisation\, and a classical duo. In these case studies\, we developed
  methods of data collection and visualisation that prioritise individual p
 articipants’ characterisations of what happened during music making sess
 ions and their ratings of agreement with each other’s characterisations.
  So far\, our case studies suggest that performers' interpretations are no
 t always privileged relative to an outsider's. In three different musical 
 settings\, with different constraints – such as being able to see each o
 ther or not – we find that the levels of agreement among people among wh
 o were making music together are lower than with their audience. In a furt
 her recent case study\, we have extended the work into the domain of music
 al care – an online group songwriting intervention – where we find tha
 t levels of agreement among participants correlate with feelings of connec
 tedness.\n\n*Biography*\n\nNeta Spiro is Reader in Performance Science at 
 the Royal College of Music and an honorary Research Fellow at Imperial Col
 lege London. Neta’s background is in music\, cognitive science\, and mus
 ic psychology. She was previously Head of Research at Nordoff Robbins\, Lo
 ndon\, and Research Fellow at Royal Holloway\, University of London and at
  the New School for Social Research\, New York. Two questions underlie her
  research: What is the potential role of music in peoples’ health and we
 llbeing\, and what is communicated when we make music together? Neta’s c
 urrent research includes a British Academy/Leverhulme funded project which
  explores the equitable upscale of musical care in the UK. She is also exp
 loring the possible levels of shared understanding across a variety of for
 ms of music making. Neta co-leads the Musical Care International Research 
 Network.\n\n*Zoom link*\n\nhttps://zoom.us/j/99433440421?pwd=ZWxCQXFZclRtb
 jNXa0s2K1Q2REVPZz09 (Meeting ID: 994 3344 0421\; Passcode: 714277)
LOCATION:CMS computer room\, Faculty of Music (11 West Road\, Cambridge\, 
 CB3 9DP)
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