1. Keynote Addresses
- Embodied musical synergies. Creativity and interaction in the musical moment. Psychology and Music Conference - Interdisciplinary Encounters, 26-29 October 2022, University of the Arts Belgrade, Serbia.
- Fostering creativity in musical learning. Formal and informal pedagogies from infancy to adulthood*. European Association for Music in School (EAS) Conference, 10-13 June 2020, University of Padova, Italy (*cancelled due to COVID-19)
- The embodied-embedded-extended-enactive musical mind*. Life-Span Perspectives on Music Therapy, Cognition, and Embodiment, 22 April 2020, University of Bergen, Norway (*cancelled due to COVID-19)
- Embodiment in musical learning and development: A guide to discovery. Symposium of the Finnish Society for Music Education (FiSME), 14-16 November 2019, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- From action to musical experience. A ‘4E’ proposal. 3rd Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind, 29-30 August 2019, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
- Laying down a path in musicking. The 4th International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS4), 28 July - 2 August 2019, Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland
- Embodied action and the roots of musicality. 19th Herbstakademie Conference. Embodied Aesthetics: Resonance in Perception, Expression and Therapy, 5-7 October 2017, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Mind the body. Musical sense-making and the power of action. GAPS, Global Arts and Psychology Seminar, 28-29 April 2017, University of Graz, Austria
2. Invited Talks
- Rethinking the musical mind? The Sir John Manduell Research Forum Series, 7 December 2022, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK.
- Being musical beings. Tales of embodiment and musical synergies. Music Research Seminar Series, 1 December 2022, Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh, UK.
- Scienze cognitive e ricerca musicale: Il valore dell’interdisciplinarità. Verso i Dottorati di Ricerca. Incontro Internazionale sulla Ricerca Artistica nei Conservatori, 28 September 2022, “L. D’annunzio” Music Conservatoire, Pescara, Italy (delivered remotely).
- Musical creativity in theory and practice. Guest lecture, 10 December 2021, Department of Music, Art, and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- A world to share: 4E cognition and ethnomusicology. Meetings of the Cognitive Ethnomusicology Special Interest Group (SIG) in the Society for Ethnomusicology, 1 April 2021, Brigham Young University, USA
- Performance science. Transformation: Plenary day for doctoral students, 18 March 2021, Royal College of Music, London, UK (with V. Carreras and J. MacRitchie)
- Musical skill acquisition in action and interaction. Guest lecture, 20 January 2021, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
- The musical moment. Embodiment, creativity, and intersubjectivity. Guest lecture, 14 May 2020, Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
- Situated musicality. Empirical and phenomenological approaches. Guest lecture, 7 May 2019, Department of Archaeology, University of Barcelona, Spain
- Experience and the musical subject. 4Esthetics Workshop. 4E/Situated approaches to (music) aesthetics: challenges and perspectives, 7-9 March 2019, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Corpo non mente. Musica, pedagogia, e scienze cognitive. Guest Lecture and Workshop, 2 March 2019, “C. Abbado” Scuola Civica di Musica, Milan, Italy
- The 4E approach to music cognition. Guest Lecture, 24 January 2019, Faculty of Education, University of Valladolid, Spain
- As above, so below. Musical experience in our hands. Auditory perception and musical sound workshop, 7-9 November 2018, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
- Being, knowing, doing. 4E cognition and the dynamics of musical development. Guest Lecture, 9 October 2018, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, University of Oslo, Norway
- Making music together between adaptivity and creativity. SFPS, the 6th International Congress of the French Society of Sport Psychology, 12-15 June 2018, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Enactive musical explorations. Enactivism: theory and performance Conference. Workshop in Musical Performance, 15-17 March 2018, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA
- Sensorimotor primacy in music cognition. Guest Lecture, 5 December 2017, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Exploring musical creativity in human development, pedagogy, and performance. Research seminars in Systematic Musicology, 25 April 2017, Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria
- ‘4E’ Musicality and the pre-reflective. Insights from musical learning and performance. Mind and Brain in Music Symposium, 30-31 October 2015, Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
- What is music cognition? Guest Lecture, 27 April 2015, “G. Verdi” Music Conservatoire, Milan, Italy
- Music cognition as Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, and Extended. Research seminars in Systematic Musicology, 21 April 2015, Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria
3. Conference and Workshop Presentations (from 2015)
- Schiavio, A. (2021). Reshaping musical creativity and peer-interaction during the COVID-19 lockdown. Talk delivered at ISPS21, the International Symposium on Performance Science, 27-30 October, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (delivered remotely).
- Kempf, A., & Schiavio, A. (2021). Moving in synchrony with a virtual drummer promotes a feeling of closeness. Talk delivered at SysMus 21, the 14th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology), 3-5 November, Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark.
- Kempf, A., & Schiavio, A. (2021). An analysis of eye movements in sight-reading rhythms. Poster presented at ICMPC16-ESCOM11, the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) and 11th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), 28-31 July (delivered remotely).
- Schiavio, A., Stupacher, J., Parncutt, R. & Timmers, R. (2021). Shared responsibilities and participation in musical skill acquisition. Two empirical studies. Talk delivered at ICMPC16-ESCOM11, the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) and 11th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), 28-31 July (delivered remotely).
- Schiavio, A., Stupacher, J., Parncutt, R. & Timmers, R. (2021). Individual and collective technology-aided musical learning: Comparing synchronization, turn-taking, and imitation. Poster presented at VI Neuromusic Conference, 19-22 June, Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark (delivered remotely).
- Schiavio, A. (2019). Together as one. Teaching and learning music in individual and collective settings. Talk delivered at Creative Interactions Conference - Dynamic Processes in Group Music Activities, 30 May - 1 June, University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, Germany.
- Schiavio, A., Gande, A. & Kruse-Weber, S. (2019). Social inclusion and meaning-making in musical interaction. The M4M project. Talk delivered at Creative Interactions Conference - Dynamic Processes in Group Music Activities, 30 May - 1 June, University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, Germany.
- Maes, P-J., Walton, A., Hansen, N., Cummins, F., Rodger, M., Polit, J. & Schiavio, A. (2019). Analyzing skillful adaptivity in musical duos. CIM19: Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology - Embodiment in Music. 26-28 September, University of Graz, Austria.
- Kruse-Weber, S., Gande, A. & Schiavio, A. (2019). Reflective practice in a community music project with students in higher music education. Talk delivered at Visions of Research in Music Education: The Conference, 24-25 May, Westminster Choir College, Rider University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
- Schiavio, A. (2018). Explorations and Teleomusicality. Talk delivered at CIM18, Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, 16-20 October, Institute for Musicology, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Poland.
- Schiavio, A. (2018). A conceptual framework for interactive musical learning. Talk delivered at Together in Music Conference: Expression, Performance and Communication in Ensembles, 12-14 April, National Centre for Early Music, University of York, UK.
- Schiavio, A., Gande, A. & Kruse-Weber, S. (2018). ‘Meet4Music'. Negotiating meaning between community music, performativity, and the cognitive sciences. Talk delivered at Reflective Conservatoire Conference, 20-23 February, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, UK.
- Schiavio, A., Walton, A., Rodger, M. & Devaney, J. (2016). Participatory music-making as participatory sense-making. An empirical study. Poster presented at ESPP16, 24th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 10-13 August, University of St. Andrews, UK.
- Schiavio, A., Walton, A., Rodger, M. & Devaney, J. (2016). The loss and regain of coordinated behaviour in musical duos. Talk delivered at ICMPC14, the 14th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 5-9 July, San Francisco CA, USA.
- Schiavio, A. (2016). From the cradle to the stage. The musical mind in action. Talk delivered at Exploring the Mind through Music Conference, 6-10 June, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston TX, USA.
- van der Schyff, D. & Schiavio, A. (2015). The embodied musical mind: enactive cognitive science and music education. Talk delivered at International Symposium: Learning and teaching music in the Twenty-First Century. The contribution of science and technology, 5-6 November, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
- Timmers, R., Schiavio, A. & Cowell, H. (2015). Influences of visual activity on memorised tempo of a performance. Poster presented at ESCOM9, the 9th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, 17-22 August, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK.
- Schiavio, A. & Cummins, F. (2015). An inter(en)active approach to musical agency and learning. Talk delivered at ICMEM, The International Conference on the Multimodal Experience of Music, Department of Music, 23-25 March, The University of Sheffield, UK.
- Schiavio, A. & Timmers, R. (2015). Cross-modal facilitation in learning atonal melodies. Poster presented at ICMEM, The International Conference on the Multimodal Experience of Music, 23-25 March, Department of Music, The University of Sheffield, UK
4. Media Coverage
- So strangely Podcast. I was interviewed about the paper "When the sound becomes the goal. 4E cognition and Teleomusicality in early infancy", September 2018. Click here to listen to the interview.
- The naked scientists, BBC radio Cambridgeshire, and 5Live. I made an appearance on BBC radio Cambridgeshire, and 5Live, talking about music perception and emotion, August 2015. Click here to listen to the interview.