Performing Time: Synchrony and Temporal Flow in Music and Dance

Performing Time explores our experience of time in dance and music, from the perspectives of both performers and audience, and informed by the most recent research in dance science, musicology, neuroscience, and psychology.

Clemens Wöllner, University of Music, Freiburg, Germany, Justin London, Department of Music Carleton College

Clemens Wöllner is Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Music, Freiburg, Germany. He has published widely on timing in perception and performance, expressiveness, attention and movement in music and beyond. His long-term research project “Slow Motion: Transformation of Musical Time in Perception and Performance” has been awarded a grant from the European Union. He is President of the German Society for Music Psychology, and serves in the boards of leading journals in the field.


Justin London is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music, Cognitive Science, and the Humanities at Carleton College (USA). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania where he worked with Leonard Meyer. His research interests include rhythm and timing in non-western music, beat and tempo perception, sensorimotor synchronization and joint action, and musical aesthetics. He has served as President of the Society for Music Theory (2007-2009) and President of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (2016-2018).