Sound and action in music performance

'Sound and Action in Music Performance' addresses how auditory feedback influences the planning and execution of our movements.

Focusing specifically on auditory feedback in music, including instrumental and vocal production, the book also gives substantial coverage to its role in speech.

Both of these behaviours are the primary means by which people communicate their thoughts and feelings through the auditory modality, and auditory feedback is critical in each case.

The book proposes that the role of auditory feedback emerges from the broader theme of coordination, as our brain coordinates planned actions with concurrent perceptual events, including auditory feedback as well as other possibly intrusive sounds.