{"id":105911,"date":"2024-07-12T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T20:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=105911"},"modified":"2024-07-15T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T12:00:01","slug":"report-newly-published-study-looks-use-extended-reality-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2024\/07\/12\/report-newly-published-study-looks-use-extended-reality-musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT | Newly Published Study Looks At The Use Of Extended Reality For Musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is a growing body of research delving into the physical and emotional processes that take place between musicians as they play, and audiences as they experience, music. More and more, though, new technology is bringing artists together in mixed reality experiences that don\u2019t have a precedence.<\/p>\n

How do those conditions affect performance, and issues like coordination between musicians in an ensemble?<\/p>\n

Answering that question was the goal of a newly published study<\/a> by researchers at the Department of Art, Music, and Theatre Science at Ghent University in Belgium.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the first studies to look at how using real-time, low-latency networking to facilitate collaboration between musicians affects the result.<\/p>\n

The Experiment<\/h2>\n

They began by creating a mixed reality platform where musicians could play together remotely in real time, using three-dimensional avatars in what amounts to a virtual drum circle. The participants had to perform polyrhythmic patterns together.<\/p>\n

They evaluated their performance using statistical and regression analyses, among others. The researchers used two different dimensions to measure the effects:<\/p>\n