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Shinichi Furuya

Musicians are bearers of the culture. They let us listen to music, which is intangible cultural heritage that has been created over centuries worldwide. To produce various musical expression based on creativity and intelligence requires sophisticated sensory, motor, and cognitive skills, which are acquired through years of extensive training from childhood. However, in the course of training, a number of musicians have suffered from failures of creating desired musical expression through performance and/or from physical and mental troubles. A goal of “Musical Dynaformics” is to realize sustainable development of culture, through research and development for enriching expertise and wellness, such as sophisticating musical skills, training, and education, and preventing overuse injuries and choking under pressure. Through making educational platform that can keep being updated based on the achievement of research and development, we dream a future in which both musicians and audience can keep being moved by music.

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[Keywords]
Musical Dynaformics / Music performance science / virtuosity / neuroplasticity / biomechanics and motor control / movement disorders / multisensory integration / stage fright

Activities

Music Excellence Project
Sony Corporate Blog
2021/12/17
2021/11/11
2021/11/10
2021/10/27
【Press Release】Completes the inaugural class of the Academy Program for young pianists
First Commemorative Concert to be held on November 8, 2021
2021/8/25
2021/6/25
Members of the inaugural class of the Piano Academy won the first and second prizes
The 5th Tel Aviv International Piano Competition
2021/5/28
Cultural Brain lecture
Beyond the limit of sensorimotor skills of musicians
2021/3/24
2021/2/18
Interview with the music director
Music Excellence Project　Academy Program
2021/2/15
New Publication
An article by M.Hirano and S.Furuya
2020/11/24
2020/9/10
2020/8/21
[Press Release]
Launches Music Excellence Project
2020/7/30
[Press Release]
2019 Sony Researcher Wins the Klein-Vogelbach Prize
2020/1/27
Sony Stories:
Beyond the limits of musical expression through technology
2019/11/11
2019/9/3
New Publication
Yudai Kimoto, Takanori Oku, Shinichi Furuya on Scientific Reports
2019/8/22
New Publication
An article by M.Hirano and S.Furuya is published online
2019/7/30
New Publication
A journal article by Takanori Oku and Shinichi Furuya is published.
2019/5/21
Shinichi Furuya's lectures this spring
2019/4/9
New Publication
Book commemorates 30th anniversary of Sony CSL
2019/2/25
2019/1/15
2018/12/27
2018/12/18
2018/11/27
Sony CSL 30th Anniversary Open House Report
October 23 -24, 2018
2018/11/22
Sony Stories :
Wild Ideas for a Better World
2018/11/1
2018/9/6
2018/7/2
New Publications
S.Furuya to contribute in 2 books
2018/6/22
The Journal of Physiology
The Perspective of The Journal of Physiology highlights an article by Shinichi Furuya et al..
2018/5/1
JST「CREST」採択
2017/9/20
Lecture by CSL Researcher S.Furuya
at the International Summer Academy of the mdw
2017/8/21
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Projects

Music Excellence Project

2020/7/30

Coordination Skill Learning System for Musicians

2019/1/24

The Evaluation of Sensory Motor and Cognitive Functions

2019/1/24

Prevention and Rehabilitation of Musican's Injuries

2019/1/24

Musical Dynaformics

Research Vision and Goal
2018/1/1
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Selected Publications

Furuya S, Uehara K, Sakamoto T, Hanakawa T (2018) Aberrant cortical excitability explains the loss of hand dexterity in musician’s dystonia. The Journal of Physiology (in press) doi: 10.1113/JP275813

Furuya S (2018) Individual differences in sensorimotor skills among musicians. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 20: 61-66

Furuya S, Oku T, Miyazaki F, Kinoshita H (2015) Secrets of virtuoso: neuromuscular attributes of motor virtuosity in expert musicians. Scientific Reports 5：15750

Furuya S, Altenmüller E (2015) Acquisition and reacquisition of motor coordination in musicians. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1337: 118–124

Furuya S, Klaus M, Nitsche MA, Paulus W, Altenmüller E (2014) Ceiling effects prevent further improvement of transcranial stimulation in skilled musicians. The Journal of Neuroscience 34(41):13834 - 13839

Furuya S, Nitsche MA, Paulus W, Altenmüller E (2014) Surmounting retraining limits in musicians' dystonia by transcranial stimulation. Annals of Neurology 75(5): 700-707

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Profile

Shinichi Furuya is a researcher at SONY CSL, and holds a position as a guest professor at Institute for Music Physiology and Musician's Medicine at Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media. He studied mechanical engineering (BSc), biomechanics and exercise physiology (MS), and motor neuroscience (PhD) at Osaka University, Japan. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Kwansei Gakuin University (Japan), University of Minnesota (USA), and Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media (Germany). He received Postdoctoral Fellowship at Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), Heisenberg Fellowship at Germany Research Foundation (DFG), and postdoctoral fellowship at Japan Society for Promoting Science (JSPS). He received Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers（LEADER）from MEXT. He is also a pianist with several prizes at domestic professional piano competitions in Japan.

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