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  • Music Perception and Cognition
  • Auditory Neuroscience
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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  • Musical ensemble timing involves intentional and unintentional variations in individual player timing.
  • These timing fluctuations create between-player note asynchrony, necessitating adjustments to maintain ensemble cohesion.
  • The relationship between timing adjustments and asynchrony (correction gain) influences the variability and nature of asynchrony.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To estimate perceptual thresholds for between-player asynchrony variability in musical performance.
  • To determine if listeners utilize differences in the magnitude and microstructure of timing variability to judge ensemble togetherness.
  • To investigate the impact of correction gain and within-player timing variability on perceived asynchrony.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments using computer-simulated musical performances of a Haydn excerpt.
  • Systematic manipulation of between-player note asynchrony by varying within-player timing variability (Experiment 1) and correction gain (Experiment 2).
  • Listening tests where participants compared two performance samples and identified the one perceived as 'less together'.

Main Results:

  • Participants' ability to detect asynchrony differed significantly between experiments, indicating sensitivity to both variability level and microstructure.
  • The threshold for detecting asynchrony was lower when correction gain was varied (Experiment 2) compared to when timing variability was adjusted (Experiment 1).
  • This suggests that the micro-structure of timing variations, influenced by correction gain, plays a crucial role in judging ensemble timing.

Conclusions:

  • Listeners are sensitive to both the overall degree of asynchrony variability and its underlying temporal characteristics (microstructure).
  • Correction gain, representing the dynamic adjustments within an ensemble, significantly impacts the perception of togetherness.
  • These findings advance our understanding of auditory perception in complex, dynamic contexts like musical ensembles.