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Eye Tracking in Musical Performance and Practice (2025)

Gonçalo Martins
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In musical performance, eye movements play a crucial role in coordinating visual attention, facilitating navigation between the score, conductor, and instrument setup. This research explores the role of fixations and saccades in percussion playing, focusing on how eye movement patterns influence accuracy, confidence, and efficiency in performance. While eye-tracking technology has been widely used in music reading studies, this project takes a practice-based approach, using video analysis to examine how eye movements evolve across different performance contexts. By analyzing recorded performances, this research investigates how the movement of the eyes create fluid musical ideas. This research explores how eye movements shape the flow of a performance, capturing moments of anticipation, reflection, and connection. The way the eyes move between instruments, the score, and the surrounding space creates a visual rhythm that intertwines with the music itself. This work is informed by a personal connection to vision studies—growing up in a family engaged in optometry and work with visually impaired individuals—which has shaped an interest in the intersection of vision and music-making. The findings not only contribute to a deeper understanding of embodied performance practice but also propose methods for enhancing visual awareness in percussion pedagogy, bridging scientific perspectives on eye movement with artistic exploration.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsPercussion, visual aspects, eye-tracking, Instruments and Techniques
date19/02/2025
published14/07/2025
last modified14/07/2025
statuslimited publication
copyrightGonçalo Martins
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languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3107972/3197990
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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