The E-music box: an empirical method for exploring the universal capacity for musical production and for social interaction through music.

ABSTRACT: Humans are assumed to have a natural-universal-predisposition for making music and for musical interaction. Research in this domain is, however, typically conducted with musically trained individuals, and therefore confounded with expertise. Here, we present a rediscovered and updated invention-the E-music box-that we establish as an empirical method to investigate musical production and interaction in everyone. The E-music box transforms rotatory cyclical movements into pre-programmable digital musical output, with tempo varying according to rotation speed. The user's movements are coded as continuous oscillatory data, which can be analysed using linear or nonlinear analytical tools. We conducted a proof-of-principle experiment to demonstrate that, using this method, pairs of non-musicall

SUBMITTER: Novembre G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4680608 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature