With the advent of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), the study of plastic changes in white matter architecture due to long-term practice has attracted increasing interest. Professional musicians provide an ideal model for investigating white matter plasticity because of their early onset of extensive auditory and sensorimotor training. We performed fiber tractography and subsequent voxelwise anal...

Haptic technology, providing force cues and creating a programmable physical instrument interface, can assist musicians in making gestures. The finite reaction time of the human motor control system implies that the execution of a brief musical gesture does not rely on immediate feedback from the senses, rather it is preprogrammed to some degree. Consequently, we suggest designing relatively si...

This article presents the pioneering outcomes of a non-interventive ethnographic observation of a Semai musician’s transmission of indigenous musical traditions using selected indigenous musical instruments from his community. The musician, who is primarily a performer, was placed in the role of teacher. Fifteen Semai children from his village between the ages of six and nine were involved. The...

As multi-channel audio and visual processing becomes more accessible to the general public, musicians are beginning to experiment with performances where players are in two or more remote locations. These co-located or telepresence performances challenge the conventions and basic rules of traditional musical experience. While they allow for collaboration with musicians and audiences in remote l...