The Coupling of Gesture and Sound: The Kinematics of Cross-Modal Matching for Hand Conducting Gestures and Accompanying Vocal Sounds

Physical movement of musicians and conductors alike play important role in music perception. Recently computational techniques have been developed to look at the relationship between movement kinematics and musical features. Areas that are investigated included musicians’ bodily movements (Thompson & Luck, 2008), dance movements (Burger et al., 2010), and conductors’ gestures (Luck & Toiviainen, 2006). This study adds to previous literature by exploring cross-modal similarities between hand movements and accompanying sound profiles across persons.