Takako Fujioka - What I did during the pandemic
Date:
Fri, 11/11/2022 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar This is starting to be a theme: How do we take apart and analyze dynamic systems? In Prof. Fujioka's case, two or more players have their own goals and timing, but must cooperate for the greater good. This will be a good opportunity to hear a broad overview of her work. And since it’s the Hearing Seminar we will discuss what it all means.
Who: Prof. Takako Fujioka (Stanford University)
What: When people predict, coordinate, and improvise in music
When: Friday November 11, at 10:30AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room (upstairs behind the elevator)
Why: How do ensembles coordinate?
The Hearing Seminar is an ensemble effort, between a speaker and our audience. Under Prof. Fujioka guidance we’ll improvise a good discussion. Please come to CCRMA on Friday morning.
When people predict, coordinate, and improvise in music
Prof. Takako Fujioka
Abstract
During the pandemic which halted in-person human subject research, The CCRMA Neuromusic lab continued to operate in conducting online experiments and analyzing the previously collected brain data. How do we predict timing of ongoing music and coordinate with each other? How do we improvise jointly? Our recent work tackle these mysteries in coupled-oscillator tapping, two-person behavioural and electroencephalography (EEG) studies. People's ability to extract beat timing from multiple sounds with asynchronies differ among population. Such a beat-extraction process is further influenced by the acoustic delays between duet partners. Furthermore, when duet pianists alternate either prescribed or improvised lines of melodies, the EEG activities index the interaction between the creative task load and the attention to partner, and the difference between predicted and incoming sounds. Personal empathy trait also plays a role in these coordinative and improvisational performances.
BIO
Takako Fujioka grew up in Japan, playing music, hand-drawing comics, and making anime films. She earned a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Waseda University and a Ph.D. in Physiology from National Institute for Physiological Sciences. Then she moved to Toronto, Canada as a post-doctoral fellow supported by awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. In 2012, Takako opened her “Neuromusic” laboratory at Stanford University, in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, equipped with EEG and 3D motion capture systems. The laboratory offers research opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students on various auditory perception and music cognition topics. Recent projects include neural correlates of temporal anticipation, expressive body movements, beat perception, joint improvisation, hip-hop rhyme processing, ensemble roles related to empathy, music perception for cochlear implant users, and music-supported neurorehabilitation. She serves as an Associate Editor in Frontier Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, a research advisory council in the Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy, and a grant-committee member/reviewer/thesis examiner in Canada, the US, Australia, Asian and European countries. In her free time, Takako continues to play piano for chamber ensembles and jazz jamming.
Open to the Public