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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) composed sixteen French overtures during his lifetime. These are found in his orchestral music, cantatas and works for solo instrument. Although most of Bach’s music ...

Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881–1950) was highly esteemed as a Soviet composer, only surpassed by Prokofiev and Shostakovich among his contemporaries, and in the West famous conductors like Stokowski and Furtwängler performed his ...

Målet med denne oppgaven er å belyse de positive erfaringene barnehageansatte opplever ved bruk av sang, musikk og annen musikalsk aktivitet i barnehagen. Det er også ønskelig å sette søkelys på ulike utfordringer og ...

Med utgangspunkt i den sørafrikanske nasjonalsangen Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika studerer jeg forholdet mellom musikk og identitet. Nasjonalsangen er viktig for et samfunn og alle har et forhold til den, særlig når en atlet har ...

The MiningSuite is a free open-source and comprehensive Matlab framework for the analysis of signals, audio recordings, music recordings, music scores, other signals such as motion capture data, etc., under a common modular ...

This master’s thesis explores the scope arising between some of the diffèrent analytical methods found across popular musicology and western art musicology. As a vehicle in this exercise, the contrasting cases of Men At ...

INTIMAL is a physical virtual embodied system for relational listening that integrates body movement, oral archives, and voice expression through telematic improvisatory performance in migratory contexts. It has been ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker ulike former av sitering som del av den musikalske lånekulturen i Norge. Jeg har undersøkt hvordan allerede eksisterende musikk har blitt brukt til forskjellige tider med fokus på norske komponister ...

Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan grafisk notasjon kan gjøres tilgjengelig for amatørkor (som en av flere grupper med begrenset kjennskap til konvensjonell notasjon). Gjennom planlegging, gjennomføring og analyse av en ...

Ever since the British missionaries reached in the hinterlands of northern Malawi and made it their evangelical focal point, the local practice of vimbuza has been a multifaceted controversy, and the colonial attempts to ...

Hvilket språk finnes innen musikkvitenskapen og estetikken som kan beskrive sang som kunstform? Hvilke teoretiske begreper og perspektiver kan bidra til bevisstgjøring i forbindelse med sangens meningsproduksjon og virkemåter? ...

We present a method for tempo estimation from audio recordings based on signal processing and peak tracking, and not depending on training on ground-truth data. First, an accentuation curve, emphasizing the temporal location ...

This paper argues that the Husserlian notion of “passive synthesis” can make a substantial contribution to the understanding of aesthetic experience. The argument is based on two empirical cases of qualitative interview ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg undervisningsdidaktikk i individuell sangundervisning og skolekorps før videregående skole. Dette med formål om å belyse forskjeller i musikkteoretisk innhold, og vurdere metoder for integrering ...

Mechanical Entanglement is a musical composition for three performers. Three force feedback devices each containing two haptic faders are mutually coupled using virtual linear springs and dampers. During the composition, ...

We present a method for tempo estimation from audio re-cordings based on signal processing and peak tracking, andnot depending on training on ground-truth data. First anaccentuation curve, emphasising the temporal location ...

This paper articulates the design for the first stage of INTIMAL: a physical/virtual embodied interactive system for relational listening in the context of human migration, set within the artistic practice of improvisatory ...

This essay uses the Deleuzo-Guattarian concept of the war machine to develop a way of thinking about research-creation, following Erin Manning’s suggestion that the latter—as a hyphenated compound structure—can function ...

RaveForce is a programming framework designed for a computational music generation method that involves audio sample level evaluation in symbolic music representation generation. It comprises a Python module and a SuperCollider ...

This article explores trends and motivations in the selection of plainchant and vernacular song quotations as the foundations of thirteenth-century motets. I argue that particular tenor melodies that received only cursory ...

In this paper, we present a workshop of physical computing applied to NIME design based on science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education. The workshop is designed for master students with ...

How can ethnography and music theory and analysis richly inform one another? One way is to incorporate the words and concepts used by high-level practitioners to build a theoretical scaffolding—to build an analytic framework ...

Having “good rhythm” is essential in both music and competitive rowing, but what exactly constitutes “good rhythm,” and how do we achieve it? Although rhythm is often discussed in purely auditory terms, I argue that rhythm ...

In this paper, we advance the thesis that music-making can be advantageously understood as an exploratory phenomenon. While music-making is certainly about aesthetic expression, from a phenomenological, cognitive, and even ...

I denne masteroppgaven tar jeg for meg Haugtussa, opus 67, en syklus på åtte sanger for sang og klaver av Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), utgitt i 1898 og basert på utdrag fra Arne Garborgs diktsamling fra 1895 med samme navn. ...

We examine two “producer-oriented” audio distribution platforms, SoundCloud and Bandcamp, which have been important repositories for the hopes of musicians, commentators, and audiences that digital technologies and cultural ...

In this paper, we present a course of audio programming using web audio technologies addressed to an interdisciplinary group of master students who are mostly beginners in programming. This course is held in two connected ...

Learning to read changes the brain language system. Phonological processing is the language domain most crucial for reading, but it is still unknown how reading acquisition modifies the neural phonological network in ...

This paper describes the process of developing a shared instrument for music–dance performance, with a particular focus on exploring the boundaries between standstill vs motion, and silence vs sound. The piece Vrengt grew ...

In this paper we introduce a hardware platform to proto- type interfaces of demanding sonic interactive systems. We target applications featuring a large array of analog sensors requiring data acquisition and transmission ...

This paper describes a multidisciplinary encounter with oral testimony archives and their incorporation in the artistic research project Intimal. It explores ways in which to creatively listen to stories which might be ...

How do artists use copyright to further their creative ends? To approach this question, this article focuses on the relationship between artists’ appropriation of digital technology and exertion of their rights. In particular, ...

Virtuosity in music performance is often associated with fast, precise, and efficient sound-producing movements. The generation of such highly skilled movements involves complex joint and muscle control by the central ...

One of Pierre Schaeffer’s achievements in his musical research was his proposal of the sound object as a basic unit of musical experience and his insistence on listening as a main focus of research. Out of this research ...

The links between music and human movement have been shown to provide insight into crucial aspects of human’s perception, cognition, and sensorimotor systems. In this study, we examined the influence of music on movement ...

This chapter examines ambience as it was defined in Brian Eno's liner notes in Ambient 1: Music for Airports and from John Cage's experiences leaning up to the composition of 4'33'', in regards to the background and the ...

In speech and music, the acoustic and perceptual onset(s) of a sound are usually not congruent with its perceived temporal location. Rather, these "P-centers" are heard some milliseconds after the acoustic onset, and a ...

The aim of this dissertation is to understand the role of embodiment in melodic contour perception. In other words, it studies how we move our bodies in response to music. Melodies play an important role in both speech and ...

The present study tested two assumptions concerning the auditory processing of microtiming in musical grooves (i.e., repeating, movement-inducing rhythmic patterns): 1) Microtiming challenges the listener's internal framework ...

In this paper, we report on a free-hand motion capture study in which 32 participants ‘traced’ 16 melodic vocal phrases with their hands in the air in two experimental conditions. Melodic contours are often thought of as ...

A partir de las memorias sonoras de los pasajeros del transporte público subterráneo en Londres, México y París, creé el sitio interactivo en internet Sounding Underground. Esta interfaz articula estructural y aleatoriamente ...

This chapter presents an overview of some methodological approaches and technologies that can be used in the study of music-related body motion. The aim is not to cover all possible approaches, but rather to highlight some ...

This article bridges ecocriticism and popular music analysis in a close reading of three examples that respond musically to environmental debates in Iceland during the period 2006–2009. Political-environmental tensions in ...

Many common and popular sound spatialisation techniques and methods rely on listeners being positioned in a “sweet-spot” for an optimal listening position in a circle of speakers. This paper discusses a stochastic ...

Musikk har stor betydning for humør og livskvalitet. Lekne rytmer kan gi hvem som helst lyst til å danse, og forskningen viser at vi påvirkes kraftig av rytmene rundt oss selv om vi sitter stille. Formålet med dette arbeidet ...

Since the international breakthrough of The Sugarcubes and Björk in the late 1980s, the Anglophone discourse surrounding Icelandic popular music has proven to be the latest instance of a long history of representation in ...

Et skriv som tar for seg hvordan man kan konstruere et dataspill som implementerer musikalske fagkunnskaper for bruk i skole og fritid

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Bloomsbury Academic in Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound on 11-01-2018 , available online: https://www.bloomsbury.com/9781501332050

This paper describes the process of developing a standstill performance work using the Myo gesture control armband and the Bela embedded computing platform. The combination of Myo and Bela allows a portable and extensible ...

Background Automated detection of pitch in polyphonic music remains a difficult challenge (Benetos et al., 2013). Robust solutions can be found for simple cases such as monodies. Implementation of perceptive/cognitive ...

Melodic contour, the ‘shape’ of a melody, is a common way to visualize and remember a musical piece. The purpose of this paper is to explore the building blocks of a future ‘gesture-based’ melody retrieval system. We present ...

The Musical Gestures Toolbox for Matlab (MGT) aims at assisting music researchers with importing, preprocessing, analyzing, and visualizing video, audio, and motion capture data in a coherent manner within Matlab.

This article describes the design and construction of a collection of digitally-controlled augmented acoustic guitars, and the use of these guitars in the installation \textit\{Sverm-Resonans\}. The installation was built ...

Sound and music computing (SMC) is still an emerging field in many institutions, and the challenge is often to gain critical mass for developing study programs and undertake more ambitious research projects. We report on ...

Entrepreneurship in Higher Music Education in Norway. Recently, in Norway, entrepreneurship in higher education has received increased attention. Research projects in Norwegian universities and university colleges initiated ...

This chapter addresses the relationship between repetition and variation in repetitive music. Building on philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s discussion of repetition (Difference and Repetition, 1994), and more particularly on ...

Head movements of groups of participants moving to music allowing for both duple and triple subdivisions were analysed using Recurrence Quantification Analysis. As expected the maximum recurrence rate varied between ...

Our integrative framework for explaining the enjoyment of sadness associated with music sparked a delightful number (13) of commentaries which challenge, stimulate, strengthen and shape the ideas we initially put forward. ...

This chapter provides an overview of the concept of groove, investigating musical and sonic components of grooves as well as aspects related to pleasure, process, and affect. It starts out by addressing three distinct ...

As part of the Copenhagen workshop of the Evaluating Methods of Aesthetic Inquiry Network, which took place from the 6th to 8th of April 2017, the organisers invited accordionist Andreas Borregaard to give a performance ...

Stillheit er på den eine sida eit omgrep for noko som ikkje eksisterer – fråveret av lyd. På den andre sida er stillheit noko vi alle har ei oppleving av. Somme finn stillheit i naturen, medan andre finn stillheit i musikken. ...

Tema for oppgaven er søkeres motivasjon knyttet til valg av kirkemusikkutdanning i Norge, men også hva som kan demotivere mulige søkere bort fra en kirkemusikkutdanning. Siden kirkemusikkutdanninger i Norge i den aktuelle ...

I denne masteroppgaven ønsket jeg å utforske komposisjonsprosessen – eller poetikken – til Claude Debussys Douze études (Tolv etyder), skrevet sommeren 1915. Dette er musikk som har fascinert meg lenge med sin underfundige ...

Oppgåva er ei kvalitativ undersøking av ein formidlingspraksis retta mot barn innanfor det eksperimentelle musikkfeltet i Noreg. Empiriske og teoretiske funn vert drøfta i lys av eit praksisorientert musikkomgrep. Oppgåva ...

Målet med denne oppgåva er å bidra til ny innsikt i kva musikknotasjon er, korleis den fungerer som utgangspunkt for nye musikalske uttrykk og korleis musikknotasjon er med på å fremja og utfordre musikalske konvensjonar. ...

I have chosen to study cultural entrepreneurship, particularly focused in the popular music industries. I have been fascinated by the apparent randomness of which new artists gets signed by established agents in the ...

Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan et stadig voksende strømmebasert musikkmarked påvirker låtskrivingen av albumformatet innenfor moderne norsk rock. Oppgavens diskusjon er basert på strukturanalyser av fem norske rockealbum ...

I denne masteravhandlingen ser jeg på sammenhengen mellom identitet og sterke musikkopplevelser i møte med den afroamerikanske gospelmusikken. Mitt hovedanliggende var å finne ut hvorfor mennesker rekrutteres til den ...

This paper is about MIDI Polyphonic Expression controllers. Since the invention of the synthesizer and computer music instruments a decoupling between performers and sound generators has occurred. Expression has in some ...

This thesis investigates how to apply a new microtonal harmonic system in compositions for acoustic ensembles in the Western art music notated score tradition. Two compositions are included, and contribute to the development ...

Denne oppgåva undersøkjer forholdet mellom kutsjkistisk musikk og uttrykte idéar om det russiske frå utanommusikalske tekstar. Casen min består av Oslo-Filharmonien sine framføringar av kutsjkistiske verk etter at orkesteret ...

I denne todelte masteroppgaven skal jeg se nærmere på to forskjellige metoder for å skape toner ved bruk av strenger. Relevante sider av lydteori, arrangeringsteknikker og el-gitarorkestrasjon vil bli gjort rede for, hvor ...

Intonasjon er eit viktig tema for songarar og kor uansett nivå. Denne oppgåva tar føre seg pedagogar sitt arbeid med intonasjonsutfordringar hos barn og unge. Føremålet har vore å få innsikt i tilnærmingar og reiskap som ...

Despite a growing awareness of gender bias in the music sector, there is a lack of research into the particular ways in which this imbalance manifests itself in contemporary music culture. This article combines data from ...

Med utgangspunkt i en artikkel av den franske komponisten Gérard Grisey (1946-1998) om sin musikk der han tar til orde for å «likestille det konseptuelle og det perseptuelle», diskuterer jeg hans tekster og musikk som to ...

This thesis explores the communication chain between the performer and audience in the physical vocal performance, and more precisely how the performer´s body language (movements, gestures and posture) is subjectively and ...

Med utgangspunkt i sammenhengen mellom musikk og bevegelse, tar denne oppgaven for seg bassanslagets betydning for opplevelsen av groove-basert musikk. Ved hjelp av et infrarødt markørbasert motion capture-system ble ...

This thesis seeks to investigate how music helps the player be immersed in video games. I do this through a multimodal and intertextual analysis, where I consider gameplay, visuals, sound design and music. The goal is to ...

In this chapter, the author begins with a discussion of different notions of metre, and clarifies how she use the term, and offers a brief presentation of the theory of entrainment and dynamic attending, before turning to ...

This paper describes the two variants OL1 and OL2 of the model submitted to the MIREX 2018 tempo estimation tasks, and compare them with respect to my previous submission for MIREX 2013.

Der æ so vent å vestoheio. Intonation in a "gammelstev" from Setesdal.

The relationships between human body motion and music have been the focus of several studies characterizing the correspondence between voluntary motion and various sound features. The study of involuntary movement to music, ...

In recent decades, we have seen a surge in published work on embodied music cognition, and it is now broadly accepted that musical experience is intimately linked with experiences of body motion. It is also clear that music ...

Agency is a concept employed widely and in varied ways across interdisciplinary music studies, from the philosophical to the experimental scientific. This article explores some of the theories and methodologies that inform ...