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Danielle Hickey Photo Editor Music Professor Steven Pologe gives sophomore Holly Larsen her cello lesson in Beall Concert Hall on Thursday morning. Professors get grant to study impact of senses on music The $45,000 grant will let professors Steven Pologe and Marjorie Woollacott continue their research By Allyson Goldstein Freelance Reporter Two University faculty members have been awarded a $45,000 grant from the National Academy of Record ing Arts and Sciences, the group that organizes the Grammy Awards. Music Professor Steven Pologe and exercise and movement science Profes sor Marjorie Woollacott will use the grant money to continue their research on how musicians use senses to play specific notes on stringed instruments. "Playing a stringed instrument is one of the most complex things we do as hu mans," Pologe said. "It requires minute accuracy, large simultaneous variables and a highly demanding physiology." The researchers will use highly so phisticated technology and computer analysis to determine how accurately cellists play notes and scales. Certain senses musicians use to play their in struments, such as vision, will be blocked to evaluate how the absence of sensory inputs affects a musicians' ability to correctly find notes. "We are trying to investigate what cognitive elements are most involved in accurate performance," Pologe said. "We want to determine how vi sion, auditory information and tactile sensation are involved in playing a stringed instrument." Woollacott, who controls the more technical scientific aspects of the 'This will be a pioneering study of musicians at all levels and ability... We hope to document and study the most precise and rapid movements of which humans are capable." Majorie Woldacott University of Oregon Science Professor research, is enthusiastic about the po tential that the new study has to help researchers understand how musi cians create their art. "This will be a pioneering study of musicians at all levels and ability," Woollacott said in a press release. "We hope to document and study the most precise and rapid movements of which humans are capable." The research began when Woollacott started taking cello lessons from Pologe about two years ago. Pologe said Wool lacott was interested in the complicat ed motions, the synergy of various sens es and the muscle groups required in playing a stringed instrument. Sophomore general science major Ava Asher said the new study will pro vide musicians insight into their art. "The study is relevant for musi cians to see where their skill comes from," she said. "You can take it on faith that you're talented, or you can boil it down to a science." While the researchers are still gath ering data, Pologe said he hopes the study will ultimately provide a more CORRECTION The Emerald inaccurately reported that Cafe Paradiso's "best of' open mic show (ODE, May 6) was set for May 6. As of press time, it is tentatively set for the last Thursday of this month, May 27. The Emerald regrets the error. GIVE ME 5! Run your "for sale” ad (items under $1,000) for 5 days in the ODE Classified Section. If the item(s) doesn’t sell, call us at 346-4343 and we'll run it again for another 5 days free! Kurail Passes issued on-site!!! K-mail: fares@luv2ti avel.coni 11011 Harlow 1747-0909^^“ .Student Travel Experts objective method for teaching aspir ing musicians how to play stringed in struments and helping experienced musicians hone their techniques. "Those of us who are responsible for training young musicians have al ways had to rely entirely on our sub jective visual and acoustic perceptions of their performance," Pologe said. "This will allow us to more exactly de tect, diagnose and correct problems." Allyson Goldstein is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. MOTHER'S DAY SEAFOOD BUFFET 12:00 to 2:30 - and - 4:30 to 8:00 All You Can Eat STEAMED CRAB Fried Shrimp, Sweet & Sour Fish, Tomato Mussels, Pepper Salt Squid, Steamed Fish, Black Bean Sauce and all your favorite dishes, desserts & ice cream for only *11.25 JADE palace « CHINESE O*. ? SEAFOOD sf** RESTAURANT • Senior 60 a over $10.25 • Children 854 per year up to 12 • Extended new menu served 12-9 nomsc 906 W. 7th *344-9523 \ graduate fron communal bathrooms* Seriously, you can own a place with only V’<> clown arid it won't cost any more each month than your rent or your dorm. ^ * , And Mom & Dad will he happy cause they get a tax break, .fust give me u cull and I'll do the rest. FRANCHISE GREWE 888-930-4622 GMAC Mortgage It’s Here Now! 2004 Summer Session Registration Register for Summer Classes Book Your Summer in Oregon Summer Session starts June 21. Pick up your free summer catalog today in the Summer Session office, 333 Oregon Hall, at the UO Bookstore, or read it online. You can speed your way toward graduation by taking required courses during summer. Check Out Our Website! http://uosummer.uoregon.edu
