This thesis is about sound and space, and is an exploration of sounds and spaces using Pierre Schaeffer’s sound object theory. It addresses aesthetic and experimental approaches to the exploration of spatial audio and ...

Researchers have argued that temporal microdeviations from the metric grid, such as those produced by musicians in performance, are crucial to making a musical rhythm groovy and danceable. It is curious, then, that the ...

The topic of gesture has received growing attention among music researchers over recent decades. Some of this research has been summarized in anthologies on "musical gestures", such as those by Gritten and King (2006), ...

The experience often described as feeling moved, understood chiefly as a social-relational emotion with social bonding functions, has gained significant research interest in recent years. Although listening to music often ...

Questions of authorship are central to the late thirteenth-century motet repertoire represented by the seventh section or fascicle of the Montpellier Codex (Montpellier, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section de médecine, ...

This paper focuses on automatic detection and classification of sounds occurring in dementia care facilities for monitoring a resident’s safety and wellbeing. While there has been significant advances the field of domestic ...

We may typically experience music as continuous streams of sound and associated body motion, yet we may also perceive music as sequences of more discontinuous events, or as strings of chunks with multimodal sensations of ...

When intimacy is mentioned in music reviews, daily speech, and research on music—when a voice or other sound is described as “intimate,” for example—it might at first be understood as synonymous to perceived proximity. Yet ...

Although the majority of previous research on music-induced responses has focused on pleasurable experiences and preferences, it is undeniable that music is capable of eliciting strong dislike and aversion as well. To date, ...

I present a short overview of computational methods for musicological analysis of notated music. We first need to clarify the various levels of computational representations of music: on one side, notated music, on the ...

Rachmaninovs 13 preludier, opus 32 - i lys av topic theory

Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. ...

Music can reduce stress and anxiety, enhance positive mood, and facilitate social bonding. However, little is known about the role of music and related personal or cultural (individualistic vs. collectivistic) variables ...

12.mars 2020 valgte den norske regjeringen å stenge ned store deler av samfunnet på grunn av covid-19 pandemien. Følgene av nedstengingen gir en unik mulighet til å forstå hvordan sosial distansering og isolasjon påvirker ...

Digital communications technologies have developed at an increasingly rapid pace, with the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating its recent adoption. This shift over the last few decades has seen a mass migration online, where ...

I denne masteroppgaven belyses forhold som fremstår sentrale i forbindelse med sammenhengen mellom musikk og helse. Ved å rette søkelyset mot musikkens helsefremmende virkninger på mennesker, kan man bruke kunnskapen til ...

This thesis is an interdisciplinary scoping study of a proposed distance-teaching device and system (the Portable Portal), designed for use in rural Bangladesh. Conceived in collaboration with the Bangladesh-based non-profit ...

In robot drumming, performing double stroke rolls is a key ability. Human drummers learn to play double strokes by just trying it several times. For performing it, a model needs to be learned to provide anticipatory commands ...

I ti år har jeg gjennom bandet mitt, Honningbarna, fått tilgang til særegne opplevelser av kaos på konsert – opplevelser som har etterlatt kroppslige avtrykk, også utover sydde sting og brukne bein: distanserte, men ikke ...

Denne masteroppgaven utforsker jobbtilværelsen til musikere innen rytmisk musikk i Norge i dag. Som musiker i Norge forholder man seg til private parter i en pulserende musikkbransje, samt staten som rammeverk og mulig ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg at internett har bidratt til å skape nye sjangre, med hovedfokus på vaporwave. Internett har de siste tiårene i stadig større grad blitt en arena for konsum, distribusjon og diskusjon av musikk ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg stemmefysiologi og kognitive metaforer i sangpedagogikk. Jeg undersøker metaforens rolle i den vokaldidaktiske diskurs og drøfter hvordan kognitive metaforer påvirker forståelsen av sangtekniske ...

På 1960-tallet blir jazz aktualisert og synliggjort på nye måter i norsk offentlighet. Denne perioden kan forstås som tid hvor «jazz-sektoren» i Norge mobiliserer for å oppnå formell anerkjennelse og status som kunstmusikk. ...

This thesis examines the workings and functions of contemporary jam sessions in Oslo. Jam sessions first emerged in the first half of the 20th century and were events organized by musicians, for musicians. They were places ...

Fokuset på kjønnsbalansen i norsk musikkbransje har vært stort de siste årene. Dette fordi det er skjevheter i kjønnsbalansen, kvinnelige låtskrivere og studioprodusenter er i mindretall. Denne masteroppgaven søker å belyse ...

This paper provides figures and metrics over twenty years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression conferences, which are derived by analyzing the publicly available paper proceedings. Besides presenting statistical ...

The combination of music and the moving image is prevalent in our society, occurring in visual art forms and medias like movies, music videos and commercials. The relationship between the two has received much interest in ...

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, there emerged a radically new kind of music based on recorded environmental sounds instead of sounds of traditional Western musical instruments. Centered in Paris around the composer, ...

Music performance can be cognitively and physically demanding. These demands vary across the course of a performance as the content of the music changes. More demanding passages require performers to focus their attention ...

This paper addresses environmental issues around NIME research and practice. We discuss the formulation of an environmental statement for the conference as well as the initiation of a NIME Eco Wiki containing information ...

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) methods like machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) has created new opportunities and tools for many industries such as self-driving cars, voice recognition and image ...

I denne masteroppgaven ser jeg nærmere på hva som kjennetegner fremgangsmåter for låtskriving hos norske kvinnelige låtskrivere. Gjennom kvalitative forskningsintervjuer med fire norske kvinnelige låtskrivere har jeg fått ...

Music researchers work with increasingly large and complex data sets. There are few established data handling practices in the field and several conceptual, technological, and practical challenges. Furthermore, many music ...

De siste ti årene har strømmetjenester og digitale plattformer nærmest overtatt distribusjonen av innspilt musikk. Hva har det gjort med norsk musikkbransje? I boka Fra plate til plattform: Norsk musikk ut i verden presenteres ...

This article offers a critique of the notion of “universals” in cross-cultural studies on music and emotions based on empirical observations and philosophical arguments. The empirical material comes from experiments with ...

Abstract Musical expertise improves the precision of timing perception and performance – but is this expertise generic, or is it tied to the specific style(s) and genre(s) of one’s musical training? We asked expert musicians ...

The paper presents the Musical Gestures Toolbox (MGT) for Python, a collection of modules targeted at researchers working with video recordings. The toolbox includes video visualization techniques such as creating motion ...

Many online media platforms currently utilise algorithmically driven content moderation to prevent copyright infringement. This article explores content moderation’s effect on mashup music – a form of remix which relies ...

Many people enjoy sad music, and the appeal for tragedy is widespread among the consumers of film and literature. The underlying mechanisms of such aesthetic experiences are not well understood. We tested whether pleasure ...

This thesis investigates the expressive means through which musicians well versed in groove-based music shape the timing of a rhythmic event, with a focus on the interaction between produced timing and sound features. In ...

This paper presents a Hardanger fiddle dataset “HF1” with polyphonic performances spanning five different emotional expressions: normal, angry, sad, happy, and tender. The performances thus cover the four quadrants of the ...

The aim of this paper is to present principles of constraint-based sound-motion objects in music performance. Sound-motion objects are multimodal fragments of combined sound and sound-producing body motion, usually in the ...

Scholarship on prison music-making projects and programmes to date has largely overlooked the perspectives of prison music facilitators, who form an integral part of many prison music activities. The aim of the study, which ...

In this following study the researcher is occupied with the study of musical performance composition practice and micro timing in traditional Ghanian (West African) percussion ensemble groove processes (using the Asafo ...

Etter mange år i motbakke ble inngangen til 1990-tallet starten på en eventyrlig suksessperiode for Disney, en periode som senere har blitt omtalt som ‘The Disney Renaissance’. Howard Ashman og Alan Menken står bak mange ...

Today, K-pop is a worldwide cultural phenomenon that receives attention from both media and academia. However, K-pop fanchants, which consist of encouragement calls toward performers, tend to be dismissed as screaming. ...

Denne oppgaven handler om dybdelæring i faget «Musikk i perspektiv» (MiP), som er musikkhistoriefaget ved musikklinjen ved norske videregående skoler. Dette i henhold til den nye reformen «Fagfornyelsen» som fokuserer svært ...

This article focuses on mashup music, a form of sampling expression combining samples from two or more recognisable and popular music recordings into a new whole. It explains how platforms often regulate, displace and ...

Franz Liszt originally planned to write 24 studies in all keys, but he completed only twelve, the famous Etudes d’exécution transcendante (1851). However, half a century later the Russian Sergey Lyapunov (1859–1924) fulfilled ...

Denne masteroppgaven i musikkvitenskap utforsker og tar for seg musikalsk oppvekst innad i den bulgarske kulturen, med fokus på et musikalsk livsløp gjennom de større institusjonene og en akademisk musikkutdannelse. Viktige ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg om hvordan opphavsretten påvirker musikkskaperes muligheter.

The world consists of a million different things; actions, words, physical objects, language, instruments, roads, music, culture, political agreements, bureaucracy, paperwork, relationships, nature and so on. It is all a ...

Previous research has shown that listening to positive mood-inducing music can improve creativity measured by divergent thinking tasks. However, no studies have investigated the possibility of such an effect in young ...

The aim of this study is to develop and evaluate the Gyroshuffle, a real time rhythmic instrument played with body movement. The instrument produces a quantised rhythmic drum loop that can be played by the user, utilising ...

We present a new system for real-time visualisation of music performance, focused for the moment on a fugue played by a string quartet. The basic principle is to offer a visual guide to better understand music using ...

Denne avhandlingen tar for seg hvordan ulike medier kan påvirke hvordan vi lytter til og opplever musikk ved å sammenligne hverdagslig bruk av radio og musikkstrømmetjenester for musikklytting. Jeg har gjennomført kvalitative ...

Mange av dagens internettplattformer bruker automatiske og algoritmiske verktøy for å gjenkjenne og moderere uønsket innhold, inkludert det som blir ansett for å krenke opphavsretten. Denne artikkelen undersøker hvordan ...

Previous studies on individual differences in pupil size of healthy individuals and their relation to performance have been inconclusive. Using a novel approach, we tested the effect of general cognitive abilities and level ...

We investigated “musical effort” with an internationally renowned, classical, pianist while playing, listening, and imagining music. We used pupillometry as an objective measure of mental effort and fMRI as an exploratory ...

Pairing high-intensity interval training (HIIT) with motor skill acquisition may improve learning of some implicit motor sequences (albeit with some variability), but it is unclear if HIIT enhances explicit learning of ...

Music streaming enables the tracking of listening behavior in more detail than any previous music-distribution format. While it is well known that streaming services collect troves of data, little is known about how ...

Previous studies have revealed uneven duration patterns at the sixteenth note level of samba. In the present study, we investigated the influence of tempo on such sixteenth-note patterns in a performed samba groove.The ...

THIS STUDY REPORTS ON AN EXPERIMENT THAT tested whether drummers systematically manipulated not only onset but also duration and/or intensity of strokes in order to achieve different timing styles. Twenty-two professional ...

The intervention of digital service providers (DSPs) or platforms, such as Spotify Apple Music and Tidal, that supply streamed music has fundamentally altered the operation of copyright management organisations (CMOs) and ...

This paper describes a comparative analysis of tracking quality in two infrared marker-based motion capture systems: one older but high-end (Qualisys, purchased in 2009) and the other newer and mid-range (OptiTrack, purchased ...

Previous studies have shown that music may lead to spontaneous body movement, even when people try to stand still. But are spontaneous movement responses to music similar if the stimuli are presented using headphones or ...

Med utgangspunkt i Mats Holmquists “Big Band Minimalism” (2017) studerer jeg hvordan moderne storbandmusikk kan bli fusjonert med minimalisme. Jeg ser nærmere på minimalisme, dets idéutvikling og de mest brukte ...

The yoik is a vocal technique practised by the Sámi of Northern Europe. It relies on circular melodies, chanted in everyday life and a cappella, with or without lyrics. Each melody evokes a particular being, usually a ...

This paper describes the ongoing process of developing RAW, a collaborative body–machine instrument that relies on `sculpting' the sonification of raw EMG signals. The instrument is built around two Myo armbands located ...

Social bonds are essential for our health and well-being. Music provides a unique and implicit context for social bonding by introducing temporal and affective frameworks, which facilitate movement synchronization and ...

There is a powerful trend in museums today of asking visitors to participate in the exhibitions, co‐create content, and to be active and engage with one another in the museum space. While welcoming the participatory agenda ...

Denne avhandlingen tilbyr en innsikt i Dissimilis kompetansesenter og deres arbeid, samt hvor viktig kulturtilbud som musikk er for samhandling og respekt på tvers av mennesker. Formålet med studien er å vise viktigheten ...

This thesis describes the design and implementation of a standalone music selection system designed for technology-mediated audience participation: Motivato. The creation of Motivato is part of a case study to address ...

This thesis introduces a novel approach for the augmentation of acoustic instruments by providing musicians playing monophonic instruments the ability to produce and control the harmonic outcome of their performance. This ...

In acoustic instruments, sound production relies on the interaction between physical objects. Digital musical instruments, on the other hand, are based on arbitrarily designed action--sound mappings. This paper describes ...

Background: Attending to goal-relevant information can leave us metaphorically “blind” or “deaf” to the next relevant information while searching among distracters. This temporal cost lasting for about a half a second on ...

In this music-analytic interpretation of two love songs from Prince’s Around the World in a Day album, we investigate the properties of groove, arrangement, and vocality, all of which contribute to the artist’s inimitable ...

This paper describes an interactive art installation shown at ICLI in Trondheim in March 2020. The installation comprised three musical robots (Dr. Squiggles) that play rhythms by tapping. Visitors were invited to wear ...

Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is implicated in multiple cognitive processes, including inhibitory control, context memory, recency judgment, and choice behavior. Despite an emerging understanding of the role of OFC in memory ...

In this article, we discuss the challenges and opportunities provided by teaching programming using web audio technologies and adopting a team-based learning (TBL) approach among a mix of colocated and remote students, ...

This dissertation examines the phenomenon of spontaneous movement responses to music. It attempts to grasp and illustrate the complexity of this behaviour by viewing it from different perspectives. Unlike most previous ...

Previous studies have shown that movement-inducing properties of music largely depend on the rhythmic complexity of the stimuli. However, little is known about how simple isochronous beat patterns differ from more complex ...

Moving to music is a universal human phenomenon, and previous studies have shown that people move to music even when they try to stand still. However, are there individual differences when it comes to how much people ...

I denne masteroppgaven har jeg prøvd å finne svar på hva et utvalg sangpedagoger tenker rundt egen sangundervisning i rytmiske sjangre, hva de tenker om hva som er god sang og hvordan de jobber med å fremme sangelevens ...