Titled “The Synchronization of Complex Human Networks,” the study was conceived by Elad Shniderman, a graduate student in the Department of Music in the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University, and scientist Moti Fridman, PhD, at the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials at Bar-llan University. He co-authored the paper with Daniel Weymouth, PhD, associate professor of Composition and Theory in the Department of Music and scientists at Bar-llan and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. The collaboration was initiated at the Fetter Museum of Nanoscience and Art.
The research team devised an experiment involving 16 violinists with electric violins connected to a computer system. Each violinist had sound-canceling headphones, hearing only the sound received from the computer. All violinists played a simple repeating musical phrase and tried to synchronize with other violinists according to what they heard in their headphones.
Full article: https://news.stonybrook.edu/homespotlight/using-violin-synchronization-to-learn-about-better-networking/
Link to study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17540-7