The role of the body movement in ensemble performance by two participants

examining the importance in the time adjustment between co-performers

Abstract

In the ensemble performance, it is noted that players use co-performer's body movement in order to adjust the ensemble performance. In previous research, the author has obtained the result of suggesting the possibility that under the face-to-face condition, players use co-performer's body movement as information, and that a time adjustment between co-performers was able to be done better compared with the non-face-to-face condition. On the other hand, the research has shown the result that a time adjustment was done better even under the non-face-to-face condition following after the face-to-face condition. In this research, using dyadic synchronization task of electronic drum tapping, we examine when the body movement becomes important for a time adjustment of ensemble performance. The result obtained from this research is important to clarify the role of the bodily movement in the ensemble performance in detail.