Analysis of interaction in musical communication and its modeling

Listening to music at a live performance is different from listening to music from passive media (e.g. a CD), and a live performance gives a better impression. This is caused not only by the sound facilities but also by interaction between the player and the listener. In this research, in order to analyze such interactions in music communication, the relation between the listener´s respiration and the music was investigated. As a result, forced entrainment was discovered between the period of a musical bar and the period of the listener´s respiration in listening to music from passive media, and mutual entrainment was discovered between these periods in listening to music from a live performance. Based on our measurement results, a communication model was constructed with a mutual entrainment model and an experiment was performed. The result was that most of the subjects felt that its music was live