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
Research partnership:
Manchester Camerata with Dr Michelle Phillips, senior lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music
Research focus:
How listeners respond neurologically, behaviourally and physiologically to different music listening experiences
This project was the pilot project for Collaborate, a fund that supported research collaborations between the cultural sector and academic researchers.
The fund helped build innovative new partnerships between cultural sector practitioners and academics to explore under-explored questions around cultural value.
What did the project explore?
Manchester Camerata and the Royal Northern College of Music explored how listeners respond neurologically, behaviourally and physiologically to different music listening experiences. The project also investigated whether responses differ between live and recorded performances, an increasing area of interest after 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 trialled an innovative methodology where three different measures were used to collect data on the audience’s response to music. You can find out more about the methodologies used in the blog below.
