Stella Paschalidou

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Hellenic Mediterranean University

Effort, commonly understood as the power of an action toward an intended goal, is acknowledged as an important aspect of music expressivity. Previous studies in Hindustani Dhrupad vocal improvisation, particularly those focusing on manual interactions with imaginary objects, have revealed the intricate connection between effort and various movement...

This article sets out the results of research into effort in Dhrupad, a genre of Hindustani music. I examine gestural interactions with imaginary objects that vocalists outline when engaging with melodies. The study takes an embodied cognition stance and applies thematic analysis and inductive coding to original interviews with Dhrupad musicians in...

With the recent advent of research focusing on the body’s significance in music, the integration of physiological sensors in the context of empirical methodologies for music has also gained momentum. Given the recognition of covert muscular activity as a strong indicator of musical intentionality and the previously ascertained link between physical...

This study investigates the correlation between body movements and the voice in the context of North Indian Classical (or else Hindustani) vocal music, specifically focusing on its Dhrupad subgenre. In particular, it examines manual interactions with imaginary objects (MIIOs) commonly observed among vocalists, including actions such as stretching,...

The Department of Music Technology and Acoustics of the Hellenic Mediterranean University offers a unique higher education program in Greece, addressing the growing demand for specialists in music technology, sound technology, and acoustics. It aims to educate specialized professionals in the rapidly advancing scientific fields of music technology...

Embodiment lies at the core of music cognition, prompting recent pedagogical shifts towards a multi-sensory, whole-body approach. However, the education of oral music genres that rely exclusively on direct teacher–disciple transmission through live demonstration and imitation is now undergoing a transformation by rapidly adapting to technology-medi...

This panel considers the integration of technologies such as inter-net communication and collaboration tools, devices for human machine-interaction, live audiovisual media processing, and live coding within the creation of contemporary performances and the development of practices. The participants reflect on actual projects, and on the theoretical...

The transient acoustic dynamics of a splash cymbal are investigated via the Finite Element Method-Boundary Element Method. Real three-dimensional motion data recorded from the interaction of drummer–drumstick–cymbal provide the initial and the loading conditions to the simulated interaction of the drumstick–cymbal Finite Element Models. Progressive...

In electronic musical instruments (EMIs), the concept of “sound sculpting” was proposed by Mulder, in which imaginary objects are manually sculpted to produce sounds, although promising has had some limitations: driven by pure intuition, only the objects’ geometrical properties were mapped to sound, while effort—which is often regarded as a key fac...

In Hindustani vocal improvisation singers often appear to engage with melodic ideas by manipulating imaginary objects with their hands while singing (Rahaim, 2012 and personal observations), such as through stretching, pulling, pushing and other effortful interactions, during which they seem to act as if they are encountering an increased resistanc...

In Hindustani (dhrupad) vocal improvisation singers often engage with melodic ideas by manipulating intangible , imaginary objects with their hands while singing, such as through stretching, pulling and pushing. Such engagements ('MIIO' for Manual Interactions with Imaginary Objects) suggest that some patterns of change in the acoustic features rel...

This paper examines relationships between the voice and the ecological knowledge of how the human body moves when interacting with objects of the environment in the context of Hindustani vocal music. In the Dhrupad genre of singing improvisation vocalists often appear to engage with melodic ideas by manipulating intangible, imaginary objects with t...

In the Dhrupad genre of Hindustani vocal improvisation singers often appear to engage with melodic ideas by manipulating intangible, imaginary objects with their hands. Despite the fact that no real object is involved, we observe vocalists executing repeated patterns of bi-manual effortful gestures, comprising gripping, exerting and releasing phase...

In Hindustani Dhrupad vocal improvisation singers often appear to engage with melodic ideas by manipulating intangible, imaginary objects and materials with their hands, such as through stretching, pulling, and pushing. This observation suggests that some patterns of change in acoustic features of the voice allude to the interactions that objects t...

This paper reports on the exploration of the relationships between gesture and sound in the context of practicing 'sound sculpting' [4] in Hindustani (Dhrupad) vocal improvisation. In this practice, singers of the classical Indian music tradition often engage with melodic ideas by manipulating intangible, imaginary objects and materials with their...

Physical effort has often been regarded as a key factor of expressivity in music performance, nevertheless systematic experimental approaches to the subject have been rare. In Hindustani vocal music we observe singers featuring a striking use of manual gestures, whereby they appear to engage with melodic motives by employing and manipulating imagin...

This work intended to show that the use of museum scenarios and computational attention models are a good way to achieve social interaction studies. The use of attention-based algorithm allows the possibility to dynamically analyze visitors' behavior in mu- seums in long-term context where some typical behavior models are learnt. Moreover, by provi...

This paper presents an interactive multi-modal system for real-time multi-parametric gestural control of audio processing applications. We claim that this can ease the use / control of different tasks and for this we present the following as a demonstration: (1) A musical application, i.e. the multi-parametric control of digital audio effects, and...