Abstract
We investigated the effect of live performance where the audience shares time and place with a performer on the audienceʼs psychological evaluation of the performance. Each of 110 audience members evaluated the impression of either the live or recorded performance by means of continuous (during the performance) and overall rating methods (after the performance). Results showed that the audience evaluated the live performance as better and affectively richer than the recorded one, for both pieces with different impressions. By contrast, the audience avoided extreme evaluation for continuous ratings of valence and arousal in the live rather than the recorded condition. These results suggest that different mechanisms exist between overall and continuous evaluation of live music performance.
