Lara Pearson
Musicologist, thinking about music through movement, gesture and interaction. Professor for Ethnomusicology at the University of Cologne
- Reposted by Lara PearsonMaria Constantin - Check out the Diamond Open Access Expertise Center's guide "How to flip your journal" research-portal.uu.nl/ws/portalfil...
- Reposted by Lara PearsonHow to think about culture in psychology and neuroscience? What about seeing it as a source and product of perceptual plasticity? Such an inspiring journey to co-write this paper with R Polak, A Danielsen, N Jacoby, L Pearson, S Horlor, S Aubinet, J London. osf.io/preprints/ps... Feedback welcome!
- Research position suitable for a PhD student (or beyond), keen to work with multimodal vocal performance data in beatboxing: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun... Deadline: 12 January! Apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/2429 Feel free to contact me with questions about the position
- Job announcement! Research Fellow (65% TV-L 13), to work on co-singing gesture in beatboxing, based at the University of Cologne. Application deadline: 12 January, 2026 Feel free to contact me with any questions about the position. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
- Postdoctoral research fellowship available, based at the University of Oslo. We’ll be looking at physical interactions between body movement (gesture) and vocalization in song/vocal performance. If you have any questions about the position, please get in touch!
- Just published, the co-structuring of gesture-vocal dynamics in vocal performance, with @wimpouw.bsky.social and Thomas Nuttall. Which dimensions of hand and head gestures co-structure with which vocal modalities, and how does this differ across individuals? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- We go beyond looking at stereotypical gesture-motif pairs, and instead base our analyses on a wide range of freely varying vocal motifs (595 in total) and co-occurring hand and head kinematics, from 3D motion capture.
- We find that in vocal performance (South Indian, karnatak singing), vocal motifs that are more alike co-occur with gestures that are more alike, suggesting that gestures are constrained by co-occurring vocal motifs.
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View full threadAll code and the open dataset are published with the article. We also provide a dynamic dashboard for data exploration: thomasgnuttall.github.io/KarnatakGest...
