ESCOM 2017 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS 25th Anniversary Edition of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) Expressive Interaction with Music 31 July – 4 August 2017, Ghent, Belgium www.escom2017.org ESCOM 2017 31 July-4 August 2017 Ghent, Belgium 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music BOOK OF ABSTRACTS Edited by E. Van Dyck IPEM, Ghent University, Belgium Table of Contents Welcome to ESCOM 2017 1 Marc Leman - ESCOM 2017 Conference Chair 1 Irène Deliège - ESCOM Founder 2 Richard Parncutt - ESCOM President 3 Jukka Louhivuori - ESCOM General Secretary 4 Reinhard Kopiez - Editor-in-Chief of MUSICÆ SCIENTIÆ 5 Jane Ginsborg - Past-President of ESCOM, 2012-2015 6 John Sloboda - Past-President of ESCOM, 1995-1997 6 ESCOM 2017 Committees 7 Awards 10 Concerts 12 Presentation Guidelines 14 Overview of the Conference Program 15 ESCOM ABSTRACTS 16 Tuesday 1st August 17 Conference Opening by Marc Leman 17 Keynote 17 Emotion 1 17 Audio-Visual Stimulation 20 Ensemble Performance 1 22 Amusia 24 Gesture & Embodiment 1 27 Ensemble Performance 2 31 Children 34 Expressive Performance 38 Poster Session 1 41 Memory 73 Performance 77 Sight Reading 81 Semiotics & Politics 84 ii Wednesday 2nd August 88 Keynote 88 Laureate ESCOM Young Researcher Award 88 Gesture & Embodiment in Performance 89 Music Therapy 92 Vocal Expression 94 Jazz Expertise 96 Perception 98 Brain 103 (A)Synchrony 107 Education & Training 111 Poster Session 2 116 Aesthetic Experience 147 Cross-Modal & Conducting 151 Dance 156 Thursday 3rd August 161 Keynote 161 Laureate Ghent University Award 161 Cognition 163 Emotion 2 165 Well-Being: Parkinson 167 Consumption 169 Gesture & Embodiment 2 172 Preference & Familiarity 176 Well-Being 181 Poster Session 3 184 Friday 4th August 216 Plenary 216 Workshop 1A/1B 216 Workshop 2A/2B 217 Workshop 3 218 Author Index 223 ICMPC15-ESCOM10 229 ESCOM 230 Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies 231 SysMus 232 CONΨMUSICA 233 iii Welcome to ESCOM 2017 Welcome by Marc Leman - ESCOM 2017 Conference Chair The 25th anniversary conference of ESCOM indicates a historical landmark that calls for reflection, both on the past and the future. Are we doing well? Are we happy with the results? Should we explore new directions? How can we attract new members? Who are we, and what do we represent? What activities should we organize? And so on. Societies, such as ESCOM, therefore, are always in a sort of existential crisis. Their time for action is always limited, and their decisions have to be executed fast and efficient, in order to have impact. We know how it works, and it is fascinating. After all, our own life is one existential crisis – all the time, isn’t it? As far as ESCOM is concerned, I must confess that I was an observer of the society’s existential crisis, rather than a contributor of solutions - although Irène Deliège asked me several times, right from the start up to recently, actually, but I couldn’t join. There were preoccupations with a journal (JNMR), another society (ISSSM), a large research project, and so on. Sorry for that, Irène! I always admired your enormous energy: In building up the society, in gathering excellent people around you, and in becoming increasingly professional and attractive to researchers. You were always in full action, stimulating others. Let this conference also be a tribute to you! Nowadays, ESCOM offers a solid platform for exchanging ideas, for networking, and for building social skills on an international basis, Europe-wide, and worldwide. The upgrade of the ESCOM journal, with an international publisher, was an excellent move, and we may expect that ESCOM’s associated journal, MUSICÆ SCIENTIÆ, will remain a strong player in music and cognitive sciences. For both society and journal, we all want to go on for another 25 years. However, in view of that future, it is of interest to consider ESCOM’s existence in a broader context, that of the cognitive sciences. This context may require our particular attention, as it forms both an opportunity and a challenge. Look how different the landscape is today, compared to the early 1990s when ESCOM was founded. The most important achievement, probably, is that the dominance of linguistics, as research paradigm for music, has been replaced by a music-based research paradigm. Consequently, the cognitivist approach had to stand back and make place for the study of sensorimotor processes, embodiment, and interaction. Likewise, semantic-based emotion research had to stand back and make place for research on affect and expression, including physiological and neuroscience aspects. In short, music research adopted a performance-based paradigm and by doing this it could become a core player in interaction technologies and is upcoming augmented and virtual reality applications. However, despite these fascinating developments there are some issues that bother concern as well. Music-related neuroscience and engineering, such as research on the brain circuits of reward (cf. the dopaminergic system) and the automated music performance systems (cf. the deep learning 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, 31 July-4 August 2017, Ghent, Belgium 1 techniques), have become specialized research areas that we see rather seldom at ESCOM meetings, as if they neglect the performance-based research focus that characterizes ESCOM. Is performance out of the picture? Should we be concerned about this? I think we should, and very much! This drifting apart of sister-disciplines is a treat and a challenge that we, and perhaps ESCOM, should act upon. Action should be taken to promote convergence of all music sciences! Well, that’s certainly my mission, and it is the reason why we focus in this 25th anniversary conference on Expressive Interaction with Music; a topic that can be a binding factor for all music sciences. Hence our focus on interaction rather than cognition, on expression rather than emotion, and on applications and systems, together with invited keynote speakers from neuroscience, neurobiology and ethnomusicology. I would be happy if the outcome of this conference would make people aware about our existential crisis. Let us celebrate ESCOM’s 25th anniversary by asking questions about ESCOM and about our own research. Let’s question ourselves all the time. Let us go to the bottom and ask the essential thing: who are we, what do we stand for, where do we go? While meditating about our existence, I would like to thank my staff and all the collaborators who made all this possible, in particular, co-chair Edith Van Dyck, and scientific conference assistants Dirk Moelants, Micheline Lesaffre, Luc Nijs, and Pieter-Jan Maes, with the clever logistic conference assistance of Katrien Debouck, Ivan Schepers, Joren Six, Bart Moens, and Guy Van Belle. Also thanks to all conference assistants who volunteered to help us at the time of the conference (Konstantina Orlandatou and Anemone Van Zijl) and last but not least, I wish to express my sincere thanks to the Executive Council of ESCOM for the help and support in organising this conference. ___________________________________________________________________________ Welcome by Irène Deliège - ESCOM Founder 25th Anniversary of ESCOM: A bit of history At the turn of the 1990s, the foundation of ESCOM was seen as an important priority. A first major event, organized by Stephen McAdams and myself, was held at IRCAM in Paris in March 1988. It was the International Symposium Music and the Cognitive Sciences, which summarized the various orientations recently developed in the field, mainly in the United States and Europe. This event resulted in the launch the following year of an analogous undertaking, the ICMPC (International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition), located alternately every two years in Asia and in the United States. The foundation of a European host for ICMPC became urgently needed. A meeting of founding members organized at the University of Liège at the end of 1990 established the premises of the society and the official birth of ESCOM came to fruition during its first congress in Trieste in October 1991. The following year, in February 1992, an agreement was reached with the ICMPC founders. At the second ICMPC in Los Angeles, I proposed to the General Assembly of the members a junction between ICMPC and ESCOM in order to plan regular sessions on European soil in the future. This proposal was unanimously accepted and the 3rd ICMPC was thus carried out at the 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, 31 July-4 August 2017, Ghent, Belgium 2 University of Liège in 1994. The European sessions that followed were held in Keele (2000), Bologna (2006), and Thessaloniki (2012). Graz will host ICMPC 2018. The official journal of ESCOM, MUSICÆ SCIENTIÆ was inaugurated in 1997. I managed its editorial tasks until 2010. Reinhard Kopiez is currently responsible for its development, while Jukka Louhivuori has taken over the duties of permanent secretary. I am very grateful to them. This quick overview has traced only a few major pillars of our history. A number of major events - congresses, symposia, etc. - as well as publications from our many activities, could not be mentioned here: details are available in the special issue of MUSICÆ SCIENTIÆ which was dedicated to me in 2010 and edited by John Sloboda. For having lived it on a daily basis, I confess that the time spent at the centre of ESCOM has been particularly exciting for me. Before closing this message, I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the colleagues and friends who have agreed to join me in the committees, which operated over the two decades of my tenure. I have a wonderful memory of your generous welcome to my initiatives.