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Collaborate project spotlight: music and mind

Collaborate project spotlight

Find out more about the research project between Manchester Camerata and Dr Michelle Phillips, senior lecturer for the Royal Northern College of Music

Music and mind

Manchester Camerata with Dr Michelle Phillips, senior lecturer for the Royal Northern College of Music

Music and mind: how listeners respond neurologically, behaviourally and physiologically to different music listening experiences

This project served as the pilot project for Collaborate, a fund that supports research collaborations between the cultural sector and academic researchers.

The fund helps build innovative new partnerships between cultural sector practitioners and academics to explore under-explored questions around cultural value.

Musicians from the Manchester Camerata orchestra
Image: Manchester Camerata

What is the project exploring?

Manchester Camerata and the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) are exploring how listeners respond neurologically, behaviourally and physiologically to different music listening experiences. The project is also investigating whether responses differ between live and recorded performances, an increasing area of interest by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Michelle Phillips has a background in music psychology and is interested in how audiences perceive time when responding to music. You can find out more about her experience of working with Manchester Camerata in the short video.

Launched in 2021, this project is trialling an innovative methodology where three different measures are being used to collect data on the audience’s response to music. You can find out more about the methodologies in the blog announcement for the project below.

Project learning and findings

 

Musicians from the Manchester Camerata orchestra
Image: Manchester Camerata

Announcing the Collaborate fund pilot

Find out more about our Collaborate fund

Musicians from the Manchester Camerata orchestra
Image: Manchester Camerata

Collaborate projects

Find out more about the projects that have been awarded funding from our Collaborate programme
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Days Like These exhibition. Image: The Lowry

Funding

Our Collaborate fund supports innovative new research partnerships between the cultural sector and academics.

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