Bodies in Concert

Duration:
02.01.2022–31.12.2027

Concerts bring audiences and musicians together in time, in place, and music. The Bodies in Concert project explores the motion and physiology of concert participants using a large range of qualitative and quantitative methods.

Researchers' off stage view of the SSO performing while being measured.

The Stavanger Symphony Orchestra during Lydo 2023. (Photo: UiO)

Contact

About the project

This project investigates when and how performers' and audience members' bodies act together during classical music concerts. Music performances bring bodies into different relationships, and we study coordination across performance roles and musical arrangements.

RITMO has teamed up with leading Scandinavian Symphony Orchestras to collect data during concerts and show some data-capturing methods and analyses live on stage. This includes performances with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in