In keeping with Ramunė Dirvanskienė, affiliate professor of the College of Philosophy of Vilnius College, who’s coordinating the examine, though the Track Pageant has existed for a century, it has been studied little or no as a phenomenon – solely in historic and cultural features.
In the meantime, at the moment’s new applied sciences permit us to look a lot deeper into the phenomenon of singing and look at each the subjective psychophysiological experiences of a selected individual, in addition to the frequent expertise of a gaggle of individuals – singers, musicians, listeners – which is born whereas concurrently singing or listening to the identical piece.
“When speaking concerning the expertise of the Track Festivals, completely different individuals discuss the truth that participation in these occasions has a robust psychological impact – they really feel uplifted, excited, comfortable. Not solely that, you wish to return to the pageant and expertise comparable states once more. Due to this fact, the centenary Track Pageant is a superb alternative to scientifically and tangibly examine the whole lot that folks expertise subjectively”, stated R. Dirvanskienė.
What occurs in our brains after we sing with others?
Throughout the whole Track Pageant, teams of scientists will accumulate info each within the type of questionnaires and with the assistance of recent applied sciences – coronary heart fee screens and electroencephalograms.
From now till July 1. Contributors and spectators of the tune pageant are invited to fill out a pre-festival questionnaire about his relationship with this vacation, emotions of neighborhood and music.
The researchers additionally ready questionnaires for the individuals who shall be on the principal occasion on July 6. on the occasion in Vingios Park. Nicely, individuals shall be invited to reply the final questions on emotional well-being and social identification just a few days after the Track Pageant.
Scientists count on that tens of 1000’s of pageant individuals will reply these questionnaires.
Picture of the Lithuanian Nationwide Cultural Middle/Track Festivals Track Day, 2018.
In keeping with R.Dirvanskienė, there’s presently quite a lot of knowledge on this planet about how music impacts particular person individuals, whereas analysis on the expertise of taking part in music at mass occasions just isn’t so plentiful thus far.
Nonetheless, superior applied sciences at the moment permit scientists to watch modifications within the human mind and physiology that happen when singing or listening to music with others.
“It’s noticed that singing concurrently synchronizes the heartbeat and mind waves, which additionally determines the rising sense of social togetherness,” stated the scientist.
R.Dirvanskienė famous that the analysis of the Track Pageant was impressed by the earlier work finished by scientists from a number of nations.
One in every of them is a examine performed by College of San Francisco researcher Indrės Viskontas and her crew on the Miami Philharmonic within the spring of this yr, throughout which they noticed how the mind exercise of the cellist, the conductor and the listener synchronizes in actual time whereas the orchestra is taking part in classical music.
A crew from Denmark, led by scientist Ivana Konvalinka, performed comparable analysis at concert events, solely by measuring the center fee of the musicians.
In keeping with R.Dirvanskienė, all these groups will come to Lithuania initially of July and use their tried and examined strategies to check the individuals of the centenary Track Pageant.
Within the heart of the examine are contract singers and virtually 100 choristers
Throughout the tune pageant, at completely different occasions, 4 choristers shall be examined with an electroencephalogram, and about 80 individuals shall be examined with coronary heart fee screens.
The primary examine shall be performed throughout a kanklii live performance in St. John’s Church – the mind exercise and coronary heart fee of the musicians and listeners who comply with take part within the examine shall be measured.
Organizers’ picture/NeuroSteer’s single-channel EEG know-how is used for scientific analysis
In keeping with R.Dirvanskienė, particular consideration may also be paid to the singers of the contract group: 4 singers will come to Vilnius College particularly for that function, the place detailed neurological and physiological exams shall be carried out whereas they’re singing.
“It was not so way back that the sutras had been included within the UNESCO cultural heritage, however we nonetheless don’t have any analysis based mostly on fashionable science about what makes this musical custom so distinctive. We hope that the psychophysiological knowledge we collected will assist to study new methods concerning the custom of contract singing”, stated the researcher.
She additionally emphasised that after these research it is going to be attainable to check the information of contract singers and choir singing individuals, which shall be collected with the assistance of latest applied sciences.
Josvydas Elinskas / 15min picture/Track Pageant 2018 – Vingios Park
In the meantime, the principle measurements will happen on July 4-6: throughout the Track Day rehearsal and the principle live performance, wherein not solely the joint choir of a number of tens of 1000’s of individuals, but additionally a big group of listeners take part.
Throughout each the rehearsals and the live performance, a specifically chosen group of 80-100 individuals shall be studied, which can encompass women and men, younger individuals and older individuals, in addition to individuals with completely different intervals of musical expertise.
In keeping with R.Dirvanskienė, after consulting with the organizers of the Track Pageant, essentially the most emotionally highly effective tune “Kur girija žaliuoja” was chosen because the culminating tune of the analysis. The researchers intend to watch how the subjective emotions of the individuals are mirrored of their physiology whereas performing this piece.
When requested when the outcomes of the analysis are anticipated to be out there, the scientist emphasised that this challenge is of an enormous scope, a really broad spectrum and quite a lot of completely different knowledge calculations, so it’s going to take a minimum of half a yr.
“Physiological knowledge of particular person individuals could be seen instantly, however evaluating the traits of physiological modifications of many individuals is a time-consuming process. That’s the reason the outcomes of the analysis must be clarified, however we hope that they are going to assist to reply the questions of why and why the Track Pageant custom is so essential to us”, stated R. Dirvanskienė.
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2024-06-30 18:10:27