{"title":"Music in the moment: how twenty-four expert free form musicians experienced sense of agency and an improvisational state of mind","authors":"William Ashley Sol","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2023.2192411","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Study of musical improvisation has proven a significantly worthwhile topic of psychological and musicological research. This qualitative study asked: How do musicians experience sense of agency and state of mind while freely improvising? Twenty-four experts in free form music (Morris, 2012. Perpetual frontier: The properties of free music. Riti) performed short free improvisations that were explored via semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis. Participants reported low sense of agency, minimal conscious thought, and decisions experienced as body-doing or action guided by intuition, as well as moments of increased agency. Frequent reports of focused present-moment awareness suggest parallels between improvisation and mindfulness.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"203 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of New Music Research","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2192411","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Study of musical improvisation has proven a significantly worthwhile topic of psychological and musicological research. This qualitative study asked: How do musicians experience sense of agency and state of mind while freely improvising? Twenty-four experts in free form music (Morris, 2012. Perpetual frontier: The properties of free music. Riti) performed short free improvisations that were explored via semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis. Participants reported low sense of agency, minimal conscious thought, and decisions experienced as body-doing or action guided by intuition, as well as moments of increased agency. Frequent reports of focused present-moment awareness suggest parallels between improvisation and mindfulness.
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The Journal of New Music Research (JNMR) publishes material which increases our understanding of music and musical processes by systematic, scientific and technological means. Research published in the journal is innovative, empirically grounded and often, but not exclusively, uses quantitative methods. Articles are both musically relevant and scientifically rigorous, giving full technical details. No bounds are placed on the music or musical behaviours at issue: popular music, music of diverse cultures and the canon of western classical music are all within the Journal’s scope. Articles deal with theory, analysis, composition, performance, uses of music, instruments and other music technologies. The Journal was founded in 1972 with the original title Interface to reflect its interdisciplinary nature, drawing on musicology (including music theory), computer science, psychology, acoustics, philosophy, and other disciplines.
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