Art in motion

Musicians, dancers and athletes spend a tremendous amount of time and effort preparing for performance in the hope of success, aiming for certainty, flexibility and expressiveness. Their use of visualization, verbal labels, muscle energy, and emotion is often based upon intuition instead of knowledge. Art in Motion intends to fill this vacuum. Effective training and teaching hinge on motivation, self-regulation, useful feedback, and an understanding of perception, cognition, timing, motor skill learning, and automation. Information about empirical research concerning mental representations of movement and musical goals can drive the creative process, facilitating the artist at work. Innovative and intentional - purposeful and meaningful - techniques of practice are developed.

Foreword / Siegfried Mauser -- Setting art into motion and motivating musicians' movement / Adina Mornell -- Principles of practice for the development of skilled actions: Implications for training and instruction in music / Richard A. Schmidt and Timothy D. Lee -- In search of a movement science for musicians / Klaus Schneider -- Practicing with both brain hemispheres / Jürgen Beckmann, Peter Gröpel, Felix Ehrlenspiel -- Kinds of knowledges in brains / Josef Ilmberger -- The role of cognitive style in the activity of musician performers / Michał Zagrodzki -- Acquisition and loss of skilled movements in musicians as a paradigm for adaptive and maladaptive brain plasticity / Eckart Altenmüller -- What movement force reveals about cognitive processes in music performance / Peter E. Keller -- Mind, movement and motor skills: studies of expertise in dance / Bettina Bläsing -- The path to efficiency in music making: contrasting students with mentors / Frank Heuser -- Adaptive and reactive sensor technology for musical instruments: Teaching, exercising and pedagogy / Tobias Grossekathöfer, Thomas Hermann -- Using self-regulation to unlock musical success / Gary McPherson -- Operant cond…