The Co-Structuring of Gesture-Vocal Dynamics: An Exploration in Karnatak Music Performance.

ABSTRACT: In music performance contexts, vocalists tend to gesture with hand and upper body movements as they sing. But how does this gesturing relate to the sung phrases, and how do singers' gesturing styles differ from each other? In this study, we present a quantitative analysis and visualization pipeline that characterizes the multidimensional co-structuring of body movements and vocalizations in vocal performers. We apply this to a dataset of performances within the Karnatak music tradition of South India, including audio and motion tracking data of 44 performances by three expert Karnatak vocalists, openly published with this report. Our results show that time-varying features of head and hand gestures tend to be more similar when the concurrent vocal time-varying features are also more simila

SUBMITTER: Pearson L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12665335 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature