UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Music moves. This project focusses on the live experience of the audience in rock, pop and jazz concerts. The main interest lies in the phenomenon of movement entrainment, the synchronised movement to music, which can be expressed by swaying or dancing along. Who moves to the music? How does this movement entrainment affect the concert experience? What are the differences between a seated concert and an unseated concert? And what effects can be observed on the social experience?

In contrast to ‘classical’ concerts, the experience of the audience in an ecologically valid rock, pop or jazz concert has hardly been investigated to date - this gap is being closed with this project. In three sub-experiments, data from over 200 people have so far been collected using questionnaires and physical and physiological measurements. The results have already been presented in numerous conference papers and will be included in Maren Hochgesand's dissertation. This doctoral project is being supervised by Prof Dr Hauke Egermann.