Abstract
Mathieu did not just suddenly come to realize this problem, and he did not give up easily. He spent most of his 23 years of life studying music (various instruments, voice) and dance (Latin dance lessons, and he even performed in a dance troupe at a family amusement park!), only to find, time after time, that he could not keep up with the musical beat. When he attended concerts with his friends, everyone clapped along in time while watching the musicians on stage, Mathieu turned to watch his friends, in an attempt to clap in time by watching them. He sought help from his friends and private tutors, and sometimes just threw his cares away and danced publicly with his friends. Still, there seemed to be no remedy for his deficit.
Highlights
Got rhythm? Most of us do – at least a little bit
Mathieu did not just suddenly come to realize this problem, and he did not give up. He spent most of his 23 years of life studying music and dance (Latin dance lessons, and he even performed in a dance troupe at a family amusement park!), only to find, time after time, that he could not keep up with the musical beat
In order to measure the timing of Mathieu’s bounces, they used a commonly known device for capturing motion data: the remote control of the Nintendo Wii (Figure 1). Why did they use a Nintendo Wii to capture the body movement? Because, with an accelerometer inside the Wii, this instrument recorded the periodicity of Mathieu’s bounces, down to the level of 10 ms – information which the researchers stored for analysis
Summary
Got rhythm? Most of us do – at least a little bit. Believe it or not, even babies can feel the beat of a rhythm [1]. The task they gave Mathieu – and 33 dancers who reported no rhythm problems – was to listen to a popular Latin dance song, of the merengue style, and to bend at the knees and bounce to the beat. If Mathieu could feel the rhythm of the merengue, his body movement would have a periodicity similar to the music’s tempo.
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