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The Virtual Drum Circle: Polyrhythmic Music Interactions in Extended Reality by Van Kerrebroeck, Bavo; Crombé, Kristel; Wilain, Stéphanie; Leman, Marc; Maes, Pieter-Jan is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Virtual Drum Circle: Polyrhythmic Music Interactions in Extended Reality about?

Emerging technologies in the domain of extended reality offer rich, new possibilities for the study and practice of joint music performance. Apart from the technological challenges, bringing music players together in extended reality raises important questions on their performance and embodied coordination. In this study, we designed an extended reality platform to assess a remote, bidirectional polyrhythmic interaction between two players, mediated in real time by their three-dimensional embodied avatars and a shared, virtual drum circle. We leveraged a multi-layered analysis framework to assess their performance quality, embodied co-regulation and first-person interaction experience, using statistical techniques for time-series analysis and mixed-effect regression and focusing on contrasts of visual coupling (not seeing / seeing as avatars / seeing as real) and auditory context (metronome / music). Results reveal that an auditory context with music improved the performance output as measured by a prediction error, increased movement energy and levels of experienced agency. Visual coupling impacted experiential qualities and induced prosocial effects with increased levels of partn

Author

Van Kerrebroeck, Bavo; Crombé, Kristel; Wilain, Stéphanie; Leman, Marc; Maes, Pieter-Jan

Published

2023

Language

EN