Impact of Lockdown Measures on Joint Music Making: Playing Online and Physically Together
fpsyg-12-642713 May 24, 2021 Time: 15:52 # 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 28 May 2021 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.642713 Impact of Lockdown Measures on Joint Music Making: Playing Online and Physically Together Kelsey E. Onderdijk1*, Freya Acar2 and Edith Van Dyck1 1 IPEM, Department of Art, Music and Theatre Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2 Department of Data Analysis, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium A wide range of countries decided to go into lockdown to contain the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020, a setting separating people and restricting their movements. We investigated how musicians dealt with this sudden restriction in mobility. Responses of 234 people were collected. The majority of respondents (95%) resided in Belgium or the Netherlands. Results indicated a decrease of 79% of live music making in social settings during lockdown compared with before lockdown. In contrast, an increase of 264% was demonstrated for online joint music making. However, results showed that most respondents were largely or even completely unaccustomed with specialized platforms for online joint music making Edited by: (e.g., JamKazam, Jamulus). Respondents reported to mostly use well-known video- Niels Chr. Hansen, conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Skype when playing together virtually. Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark However, when such video-conferencing platforms were used, they were often not Reviewed by: employed for synchronized playing and were generally reported to insufficiently deal Mine Dogantan-Dack, with latency issues. Furthermore, respondents depending on music making as their University of Cambridge, main source of income explored online real-time methods significantly more than those United Kingdom Leon R.
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