Embodied Timing and Disability in DJ Practice

DJ是一种复杂的音乐技巧，需要音乐家同时感知和操纵多种不断变化的节奏模式。同步两个或多个录制的音轨同时播放是一种具体的活动，涉及协调身体，大脑，转盘和音乐中的声音模式中发生的过程。不同的身体和认知能力导致不同的方式与仪器和执行的技能。由于DJ和舞蹈音乐实践在音乐表演研究中被忽视，我们还不知道身体，大脑，转盘和音乐中的过程如何相互作用，使这种技能成为可能。此外，将残疾音乐家排除在学术研究之外意味着我们对残疾背景下的音乐体现知之甚少。残疾音乐家和舞蹈音乐界对更无障碍的DJ乐器和环境的需求越来越大，以促进残疾DJ融入舞蹈音乐文化。这个跨学科的项目将研究体现在DJ实践中的时间和残疾，与残疾DJ，音乐和残疾慈善机构和DJ技术开发人员之间的利益相关者合作。它将应用跨音乐表演研究，神经科学，心灵哲学和残疾研究的方法来研究大脑，身体，转盘和音乐中的周期性过程之间的动态相互作用。该项目将联合收割机以创新的方式结合多种最先进的方法来捕捉这些动态的相互作用。第一阶段将涉及同时测量大脑中的神经过程，身体的运动以及来自音乐和转盘的定时信息，而DJ则以不同的速度同步播放音乐录音-这种技能称为节拍匹配。评估这些不同测量方法之间的协调可以告诉我们它们如何相互作用以实现技能。第二阶段将通过访谈来了解残疾DJ的这些互动，了解残疾DJ在DJing时如何调整他们的表演策略和乐器，以及他们需要什么来使DJing更容易接近他们。采访将在与残疾DJ自己的对话中设计，以回应残疾人“没有我们就不要做我们”的呼吁。因此，该项目为残疾DJ提供了围绕残疾，DJ和体现的学术话语的声音。该项目的第三阶段将涉及音乐体现，舞蹈音乐实践和残疾的理论发展。具体化的观点与残疾的社会模式有着重要的共同点，后者认为残疾是环境障碍而不是身体损伤的结果。结合社会模型和体现的角度，让我们看到DJ的残疾，由于阻碍或阻碍与环境的互动。在这一理论框架中，残疾成为一个背景关系和社会障碍的问题。这三个研究阶段将在一个研讨会上达到高潮，项目研究人员和参与者将与德雷克音乐，英国领先的慈善机构，专注于残疾，音乐和技术，以及本土乐器，世界领先的DJ乐器开发商合作，将研究转化为推动更容易使用的DJ工具和环境。该研讨会将促进残疾音乐家和工业合作伙伴之间的对话，使他们能够根据我们的研究结果测试现有和新的乐器。这项工作将记录在简报文件中，这些文件将分发给残疾音乐家机构、舞蹈音乐产业和音乐技术部门的利益攸关方。通过这种方式，该项目将有助于朝着更具包容性的舞蹈音乐文化迈出步伐。

DJing is a sophisticated musical skill that requires a musician to perceive and manipulate multiple, continuously changing rhythmic patterns at the same time. The synchronization of two or more recorded tracks playing simultaneously is an embodied activity involving the coordination of processes occurring in the body, the brain, the turntables, and the sonic patterns in the music. Different physical and cognitive capacities lead to different ways of engaging with the instrument and performing the skill. Because DJ and dance music practices are neglected in music performance research, we do not yet know how the processes in the body, brain, turntable and music interact to make this skill possible. Furthermore, the exclusion of disabled musicians from academic research means that we know little about musical embodiment in the context of disability. There is increasing demand among disabled musicians and the dance music community for more accessible DJ instruments and environments, to improve inclusion of disabled DJs in dance music culture. This interdisciplinary project will study embodied timing and disability in DJ practice, in collaboration with stakeholders among disabled DJs, music and disability charities and DJ technology developers. It will apply approaches from across music performance research, neuroscience, philosophy of mind and disability studies to investigate the dynamic interaction between periodic processes in the brain, the body, the turntables and the music. The project will combine multiple state-of-the-art methods in innovative ways to capture these dynamic interactions. The first stage will involve simultaneously measuring neural processes in the brain, movements in the body and timing information from the music and the turntables while DJs synchronise musical recordings playing at different speeds - a skill known as beatmatching. Assessing the coordination across these different measurements can tell us how they interact to enable the skill. The second stage will use interviews to understand these interactions in disabled DJs, learn how disabled DJs adapt their performance strategies and instruments when DJing and what they need to make DJing more accessible to them. The interviews will be designed in conversation with disabled DJs themselves, in response to the call from disabled people to 'do nothing about us without us'. The project thus offers disabled DJs a voice in the academic discourse surrounding disability, DJing and embodiment. The third stage of the project will involve theoretical developments in musical embodiment, dance music practices and disability. The embodied perspective shares important ideas with the social model of disability, which considers disability as the result of barriers in the environment rather than impairments in the body. Combining the social model and the embodied perspective allows us to see DJs' disabilities as resulting from blocked or thwarted interaction with the environment. In this theoretical framework, disability becomes a matter of contextual relationships and societal barriers. The three research stages will culminate in a workshop where the project researchers and participants will work with Drake Music, the UK's leading charity focusing on disability, music and technology, and Native Instruments, a world-leading developer of DJ instruments, to translate the research to advance more accessible DJ tools and environments. The workshop will facilitate conversations between disabled musicians and industrial partners, allowing them to test existing and new instruments in light of the results of our research. This work will be documented in briefing papers aimed at and distributed to stakeholders among disabled musicians' institutions, the dance music industry and the music technology sector. In this way, the project will contribute to making steps towards a more inclusive dance music culture.