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Meaning-making and creativity in musical entrainment
Andrea Schiavio1,2, Maria A G Witek3, Jan Stupacher4
1School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York, York, United Kingdom.
Frontiers in Psychology
|January 18, 2024
Summary
Musical entrainment, the synchronization of biological rhythms with external stimuli, fosters creativity. This process, rooted in embodied experience, serves as a foundational element for developing diverse musical creativities.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Music Psychology
- Enactive Cognition
Background:
- Musical entrainment involves biological synchronization with music.
- Creativity is linked to adaptation and exploration through embodied experience.
- Existing research on entrainment lacks a focus on its creative potential.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose musical entrainment as an intrinsically creative process.
- To explore how entrainment enables higher-level creative behaviors.
- To integrate enactive cognitive science and creative cognition research.
Main Methods:
- Theoretical integration of enactive and creative cognition.
- Focus on groove, communication, and emotion in music.
- Review of empirical entrainment studies (musical and non-musical).
Main Results:
- Musical entrainment promotes adaptation and exploration.
- Bodily experience is key to cultivating innovation.
- Entrainment fosters meaning-making and creativity.
Conclusions:
- Musical entrainment is a fundamental building block for musical creativity.
- It shapes an individual's musical development.
- The proposed theory offers avenues for empirical testing.
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