A musical communication between a player and a listener and its model

In this paper, to analyze the mechanism of the communication between a player and a listener, the relation between the time course of the acoustic level and the time course of the physiological level of a live performance were analyzed at the same time. The results revealed that, where scatter of notes was low, music rhythm of a player and handclap rhythm of a listener were likely to synchronize, and where scatter of notes was high, both respiration rhythms were likely synchronize. Then where scatter of notes was high, the coupling between acoustic level and physiological level became strong. To interpret these results, we hypothesized that where scatter of notes is high, a player and a listener have to anticipate the timing of sounding, and proposed a new communication model between a player and a listener.