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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The SoundTracer project is a collaborative effort between the Norwegian National Library and the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. The goal of the project is to use the audio recordings collected by the ...

À travers une description du joik, répertoire vocal pratiqué par les Sámi de l’Arctique européen, et des rapports qu’il entretient avec la constitution de territoires, cet article vise à contribuer au développement d’une ...

Live music events are increasingly saturated with and mediated via the online and mobile devices of the audience. This article explores patterns in this media use surrounding the Øya festival in Norway and focuses, in ...

In 2016, only four of forty-seven DJs booked for Musikkfest, a festival in Oslo, Norway, were women. Following this, a local DJ published an objection to this imbalance in a local arts and entertainment magazine. Her ...

For many, the pursuit and enjoyment of musical performance goes hand-in-hand with collaborative creativity, whether in a choir, jazz combo, orchestra, or rock band. However, few musical interfaces use the affordances of ...

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As living human beings we are constantly in motion. Even when we try to stand absolutely still, our breathing, pulse and postural adjustments lead to motion at the micro-level. Such micromotion is small, but it is still ...

Pitch and spatial height are often associated when describing music. In this paper we present results from a sound tracing study in which we investigate such sound–motion relationships. The subjects were asked to move as ...

This chapter looks at the ways in which micromotion, the smallest controllable and perceivable human body motion, can be used in interactive sound systems. It presents a general taxonomy, followed by examples of how sonic ...

Artikkelen problematiserer den rollen svart rytmisk musikk har spilt innenfor populærmusikkfeltet i etterkrigstiden. Den begynner med en gjennomgang av den historiske bakgrunnen for forestillingen om svart rytme som ...

De nombreuses recherches sont actuellement menées par différentes équipes sous le nom générique « d’ethnomusicologie computationnelle ». Sous cette dénomination popularisée notamment par Tzanetakis (Tzanetakis et al. 2007, ...

In this chapter, I explore the assignment of particular gender stereotypes to sound and performance in contemporary electronically produced dance music, focusing on the sonic quality of ‘fluffiness’ (cf. Gavanas and Reitsamer ...

Music students are faced with challenges of tomorrow that higher music education does not yet teach them how to handle. The creative hierarchies of institutionalized music have been found to hinder students’ musical autonomy, ...

How do dancers engage with electronic dance music (EDM) when dancing? This paper reports on an empirical study of dancers' pleasurable engagement with three structural properties of EDM: (1) breakdown, (2) build-up, and ...

Oppgavens mål er å belyse joik og joiketradisjoner blant lulesamer i Tysfjord og Hamarøy. Med joikebegreper som inngang til forskningen viser historier om joik hvilken kulturell betydning joik har i området og med det ...

Som sangelev i videregående skole opplevde jeg at sjangerbredde på eksamen var ønskelig. I etterkant har jeg reflektert over at jeg ikke synes jazz og musikal var et spesielt bredt repertoar likevel. Derfor ønsket jeg i ...

Musikk har i alle tider blitt brukt som helsefremmende middel, men hvordan kan musikk i dag og i fremtiden medvirke i et helsefremmede og forebyggende arbeid, og som imøtekommer personer med demens i den dag-til-dag ...

Denne oppgåva er eit resultat av eit masterstudium i musikkvitenskap ved Universitet i Oslo. Oppgåva tek føre seg ulike problematikkar som er knytt til friimprovisasjonsfeltet, og ser på korleis vi kan forstå og behandle ...

”Flow” er eitt av dei mest sentrale omgrepa i rap-musikk. Rytmen i orda og rima til ein rappar er ved sidan av stemmebruken og det tekstlege innhaldet den musikalske framgrunnen av ei rap-låt. Denne oppgåva tek for seg ...

Denne oppgaven forsøker å definere vokalistens rytmiske rolle i groovebasert musikk, og nærmere bestemt på hvilken måte denne rollen fungerer i en samspillsituasjon. Dette gjøres gjennom en todelt problemstilling, som først ...

With the live classical music audience in decline, it has been argued that alternative music venues may be an important opportunity for the classical music industry to raise its profile and contribute to securing its ...

The recent surge of interest towards the paradoxical pleasure produced by sad music has generated a handful of theories and an array of empirical explorations on the topic. However, none of these have attempted to weigh ...

Masteroppgave om Øystein Sundes tekst og musikk, med fokus på hvordan han fungerer som en samfunnskommentator.

This paper describes an experiment in which the subjects performed a sound-tracing task to vocal melodies. They could move freely in the air with two hands, and their motion was captured using an infrared, marker-based ...

This thesis is an interobjective comparison between the music of three contemporary North-American television thrillers that rely heavily on electronic sounds: Daredevil, Orphan Black and Mr. Robot. The goal of the thesis ...

Bluegrass var på mange måter både innovativt og eksperimentelt da musikken vokste frem på 1940-tallet, men blir tross dette ansett som en tradisjonell musikksjanger. Med bluegrass-instrumentering, og en klar forankring til ...

Denne oppgaven består av to deler. Første del går i dybden på hva en datamaskin gjør når vokal blir pitchkorrigert i et pitchkorrigering-software. Andre del ser de estetiske forskjellene man kan oppnå med pitchkorrigering, ...

This article describes how percussive interaction informed the design, development and deployment of a series of touchscreen digital musical instruments for ensembles. Percussion has previously been defined by techniques ...

This paper explores sonic microinteraction using muscle sensing through the Myo armband. The first part presents results from a small series of experiments aimed at finding the baseline micromotion and muscle activation ...

The attack phase of sound events plays an important role in how sounds and music are perceived. Several approaches have been suggested for locating salient time points and critical time spans within the attack portion of ...

The perception of musical meter is fundamental for rhythm production and perception in much music. Underlying structures such as pulse, meter, and metrical subdivisions are often described as successive points in time. ...

The paper presents results from an experiment in which 91 subjects stood still on the floor for 6 minutes, with the first 3 minutes in silence, followed by 3 minutes with mu- sic. The head motion of the subjects was captured ...

Konserter der utøvere har med seg datamaskin eller annet musikkteknologisk utstyr på scenen og utfører prosesser live som tidligere var forbeholdt musikkinnspilling og produksjon i studio, har blitt et stadig vanligere ...

Med en diskursanalytisk og kulturhistorisk tilnærming tar denne oppgaven utgangspunkt i omtalene av fem uroppførelser av norske orkesterverk i perioden 1963-2015, for å undersøke hvilken samfunnsmessig betydning og rolle ...

Abstract: Sound-producing body motion and associated body postures shape musical sound in interaction with musical instruments or the vocal apparatus, making images of such body motion and postures integral to our experiences ...

The present study investigates how people move and relate to each other – and to the dance music – in a club-like setting created within a motion capture laboratory. Three groups of participants (29 in total) each danced ...

This paper investigates the importance of forming the virtual space in recorded music. With a production-analytical model called the sound-space I seek to draw attention to the ways in which spatiality in recorded sound ...

There can be no doubt that we often experience correspondences between different sense modalities in music, such as between sound, vision, motion, and touch (just to mention the most prominent ones). This is evident in ...

I afroamerikanske rytmiske musikktradisjoner er utformingen av rytmikken på mikronivå, for eksempel timing, frasering og valg av lyd, avgjørende for kvaliteten på musikken. Det er ikke nok å spille det riktige mønsteret, ...

Recorded sound is acousmatic, meaning that it does not display any visual sound sources. When people listen to recorded/acousmatic sound, they generally apply their previous experiences with the acoustical conditions of ...

Many practices of contemporary DJ-driven electronic dance music derive from 1970s club scenes in the United States, which were welcoming spaces for people who otherwise encountered prejudice for their gender identities and ...

What is recognized as the Norwegian composer Fartein Valen’s international breakthrough took place at the 1947 festival of ISCM (International Society for contemporary Music) in Copenhagen. This article investigates what ...

Streaming services for music are growing worldwide, and the Nordic countries are leading the way. In Norway, streaming represented 88 percent of digital music revenues in 2014, as opposed to 23 percent globally. In essence, ...

Johan Svendsen is one of the most influential Scandinavian composers of the nineteenth century. He contributed in particular to the orchestral repertoire in Scandinavia and he was a celebrated conductor throughout Europe. ...

Bind 1-2 er en undersøkelse av Johan Halvorsens kunstneriske virke og en stilistisk gjennomgang av hans komposisjoner, mens bind 3 inneholder en tematisk verkoversikt, en kronologisk fortegnelse over Halvorsens konsertvirksomhet ...

For hundreds of years, it has been observed that people with aphasia can sing words fluently, even though they cannot speak. This thesis will investigate how this observation has led to therapy methods, the goals of which ...

Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan lærere i Musikk i perspektiv-fagene i den videregående skolen legger til rette for at elever skal få lytteopplevelser. For å finne svar på oppgavens problemstilling er undersøkelsen delt ...

Today, a live concert no longer necessarily presents a temporal or physical correspondence between the sound and its production, though it continues to promise an experience characterized by immediacy. In this article, we ...

This paper addresses how to determine a sufficient frame (sampling) rate for an optical motion tracking system using passive reflective markers. When using passive markers for the optical motion tracking, avoiding identity ...

Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i kulturteoretiske metodologier for å undersøke hvordan og hvorfor musikk kan benyttes for å kommunisere ideologiske budskap.

Despite increasingly accessible and user-friendly multi-channel compositional tools, many composers still choose stereo formats for their work, where the compositional process is allied to diffusion performance over a ...

This paper provides an overview of the process of editing the forthcoming anthology “A NIME Reader—Fifteen years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression.” The selection process is presented, and we reflect on some of the ...