Luca Matsukawa, M. A.
Cologne Systematic Musicology Lab (CSML)
Institut of Musicology
Office: Room 1.417
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
Germany - 50923 Cologne
Mail: luca.matsukawa(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: +49 221 470-2578
Consultation Hours: Please contact by email for an appointment
Pronouns: he/his
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Consulting services
Counsel for students of musicology/music and science
Counseling for prospective students interested in our Master's course with international and/or non-musicological/music and science related Bachelor's degrees
CV
Since 04/2025 Research assistant in Systematic Musicology, CSML
Since 04/2023 Workshop instructor “Feel the beat. Beeinflusst Musik den Herzschlag?“ at Alfried-Krupp-Schülerlabor der Künste (in cooperation with the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen)
04/2023 – 09/2025 M. A. Musicology at University of Cologne
05/2024 – 03/2025 Student assistant at Cologne Systematic Musicology Lab (CSML), Institute of Musicology, University of Cologne
10/2023 – 03/2024 Tutor for scientific writing at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen
01/2023 – 03/2023 Assistant to project management „Quellen.digital“ at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen
11/2022 – 02/2023 Standby-Nurse at University Hospital Cologne
08/2022 – 12/2022 Internship and follow-up short-term employment as student assistant at Joseph Haydn-Institut, Cologne
10/2021 – 03/2023 Student assistant of substitute professor Julian Caskel, Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen
10/2019 – 01/2023 B. A. Musicology/Piano at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen
04/2015 – 03/2020 Nurse at University Hospital Cologne, oncology ward
04/2012 – 03/2015 Nursing School at University Hospital Cologne
05/2011 – 03/2012 Several internships and untrained employments
07/2010 – 04/2011 Civilian service at St. Marien-Hospital Bonn, cardiological outpatients’ department
06/2010 German higher education entrance qualification (Allgemeine Hochschulreife)
Research interests
Embodied Cognition of Music
Perception of Musical Tempo
Publications
Matsukawa, L. & Egermann, H. (under review). Body Height, Age, Musical and Dance Sophistication Predict Tempo Perception in Music. Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie.
Matsukawa, L. (2025). Musikalisches Tempo als enaktivistischer Faktor veränderter Bewusstseinszustände im Kontext ritueller Tänze. In J. Caskel und J. Weißenfeld (Eds.), Musik im Ritual. Rituale in der Musik, (pp. 331–362), Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
Hochgesand, M., Kreuzer, M. & Matsukawa, L. (2024). ESCOM12 – The 12th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, 3.–6. Juli 2024, York, mit Hubs in Melbourne und La Plata. In R. Kopiez (Ed.), Musikpsychologie – Empirische Forschung – Ästhetische Experimente. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie: Band 32 (pp. 198–201), Münster: Waxmann.
Matsukawa, L. (2024). Essen: Gut informiert in die Alte Musik. Vorstellung des Datenbankprojekts Quellen.digital an Folkwang, Forum Musikbibliothek: Beiträge und Informationen aus der musikbibliothekarischen Praxis 45(2), 31–35.
Matsukawa, L. (2024). Musikauswahlmethoden musikmedizinischer Studien. Eine Analyse anhand von Studien mit dem Parameter Herzfrequenz, StiMMe 2/2, 32–57. https://doi.org/10.59714/stimme.v202440
Presentations
Matsukawa, L., Egermann H. & Hochgesand, M. (05–06 March 2026). Social dynamics on the dancefloor. Eine explorative Club-Studie mit Bewegungserfassung [Spoken Presentation]. Meeting of the section Systematic Musicology within the German Musicological Society, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Matsukawa, L. & Egermann, H. (21–25 July 2025). Body height, age, musical and dance sophistication influence perception of musical tempo [Spoken Presentation]. Zur Materialisierung musikalischer Zeit, Online-Workshop.
Matsukawa, L. & Egermann, H. (12–14 September 2025). Körpergröße, Alter, musikalische und tänzerische Erfahrenheit beeinflussen Wahrnehmung musikalischen Tempos [Spoken Presentation]. 41. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie, Freiburg, Germany.
Matsukawa, L. & Egermann, H. (21–25 July 2025). Body height, age, musical and dance sophistication influence perception of musical tempo [Spoken Presentation]. 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC18), São Paulo, Brazil.
Matsukawa, L. & Egermann, H. (3–4 March 2025). Embodied Perception of Musical Tempo. Körpergröße, Alter, musikalische und tänzerische Erfahrenheit beeinflussen wahrgenommenes Tempo in Musik [Spoken Presentation]. Meeting of the section Systematic Musicology within the German Musicological Society, Weimar, Germany.
Matsukawa, L. & Egermann, H. (21 January 2025). Individuelle Tempowahrnehmung in Musik [Spoken Presentation]. Guest session in the seminar „Musik und Körper“ by substitute professor Jana Weißenfeld at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, Germany.
Matsukawa, L., Isfeldt, A., Peters, P., Qiu, X., Mädrich, J., Severijns, K., Thiesen, F. C. (3–6 July 2024). Older, wiser, better? No effects of perfomers‘ age and gender on the assessment of a solo piano performance [Poster]. ESCOM12, York, United Kingdom. https://youtu.be/d37VOmEMLmg
Matsukawa, L. (31–2 March/April 2023) Der Einfluss von Musik auf den Herzschlag [Spoken Presentation]. 35th DVSM junior scientists‘ symposium, Weimar, Germany.
Scholarships/Memberships/Programmes
Member of the German Society for Music Psychology
Research Master alumnus at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne
Scholarship for Master’s and Bachelor’s programmes, granted by Stiftung Begabtenförderung berufliche Bildung (foundation for supporting gifted students with beforehand work experience), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Teaching
2025/26
- Research methods in music research
- @University of Cologne
- Level: Undergraduate
- Seminar, theory-focused
- Contents: Introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methods; basics in statistical approaches to hypothesis-testing; experimental design; questionnaire design
- What makes us dance? Music features as predictors of dance
- @University of Cologne
- Level: Undergraduate
- Seminar, hands-on-research
- Contents: Development of indiviual research questions in an experiment conducted by the CSML-research group of dance behaviour in DJ contexts; Guiding theoretical framework: Entrainment, Groove, Music Information Retrieval, Embodied Cognition
- What indeed makes us dance? Seminar for dealing with quantitative data
- @University of Cologne
- Level: Undergraduate
- Contents: Generating and testing hypotheses using real-live data; recapitulation and practicing statistical methods; preparing and presenting a scientific poster
- The influence of extra-musical factors on music perception. An introduction to quantitative-experimental research
- @Folkwang University of the arts, Essen
- Level: Postgraduate
- Seminar, theory-focused
- Contents: Reading papers with quantitative methods regarding the seminar topic; introduction to statistical approaches in music research;