Abstract
Live music often evokes a strong sense of connection between performers and audiences, but the psychophysiological basis of this connection remains unclear. In this presentation, I examine how a performer’s bodily state relates to audience experience in live, livestreamed, and video play backed concerts by combining ECG measurements with real-time audience reports of emotionally moving moments. Although direct heart-rate synchronization between performer and audience was not clearly observed, fluctuations in the performer’s heart rate were closely aligned with the timing of audiences’ subjective responses.
Bio
Kazuaki Honda received his PhD from Keio University, Japan in 2024. He is currently a researcher at NTT, Inc., a Japanese telecommunications company, where he studies implicit information processing in collective communication through rhythmic movement. His research focuses on how individuals generate rhythm, how coordination emerges in group contexts such as music performance, and how such collective action shapes social bonding and psychophysiological states. Using approaches from cognitive neuroscience, psychophysics, physiological measurement, and motion analysis, he investigates interpersonal synchronization, togetherness, skill acquisition, and rhythm-based communication.