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Emotional Response as a Measure of Liveness in New Musical Instrument Performance

In this paper we propose that the measurement of an audiences emotional response to the performance of a new musical instrument correlates with an expert judgment of liveness. An initial experiment has shown a strong positive correlation between the two, indicating that audiences who have a positive emotional response to a performance also consider the performance as being more ‘live’. Observations are then made on what elements of the performances in our study contributed to or detracted from perceived liveness. Author