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 ...

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 ...

En musikalsk fremføring finner aldri sted i et vakuum. Både fremførelsen og opplevelsen av den vil alltid være påvirket av det fysiske rommet den finner sted i og det sosiale systemet den er situert i. Dette gjør at den ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Formålet med denne oppgaven er å belyse driften av Barnekoret ved Den Norske Opera & Ballett, og legge fram argumenter for legitimering av Barnekorets eksistensberettigelse. Samtidig bidrar oppgaven til innhenting av ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both historically and in the present day, video games as a medium and an industry have been aligned with the forces of hegemony and empire. Toxic gamer culture has come to dominate popular discussions of games. Is the ...

The goal of this thesis was to develop and experiment with a set of sonification tools to explore participant data from standstill competitions. Using data from the 2012 Norwegian Championship of Standstill, three sonification ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstrakt vokal er en sangform som inkluderer lyder, fragmenterte språklyder, pitch-basert synging og som ofte abstraherer teksten. Denne oppgavens problemstilling spør om intensjonene, hos fire norske utøvere, bak å uttrykke ...

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 ...

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? ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

In this paper we present results from our ongoing project Student Active Learning in a Two campus Organization(SALTO). This is funded as part of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s (NTNU) Teaching Excellence ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

QuaverSeries consists of a domain-specific language and a single-page web application for collaborative live coding in music performances. Its domain-specific language borrows principles from both programming and digital ...

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 ...

INTIMAL is a physical-virtual system for relational listening, exploring the role of the body as interface that keeps memory of place in migratory contexts. The system is developed to integrate the body movements of ...

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 ...

What if a musician could step outside the familiar instrumental paradigm and adopt a new embodied language for moving through sound with a dancer in true partnership? And what if a dancer’s body could coalesce with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...