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The TIME project: Timing and Sound in Musical Microrhythm (2017–2022) studied microrhythm; that is, how dynamic envelope, timbre, and center frequency, as well as the microtiming of a variety of sounds, affect their perceived ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The ability to perceive the beat in music is crucial for both music listeners and players with expert musicians being notably skilled at noticing fine deviations in the beat. However, it is unclear whether this beat ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Two experiments were conducted to test the role of participant factors (i.e., musical sophistication, working memory capacity) and stimulus factors (i.e., sound duration, timbre) on auditory recognition using a rapid serial ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This paper reports on a new multi-label classification task for guitar effect recognition that is closer to the actual use case of guitar effect pedals. To generate the dataset, we used multiple clean guitar audio datasets ...
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The pioneering “research concerts” of recent decades represent prime examples of interdisciplinary music research. MusicLab Copenhagen, a collaboration between RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, ...
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Live concerts normally involve gathering at the same time and place. In livestreamed concerts, participants may gather in time but not in space, providing a natural comparison for studying live concert experiences. Previous ...
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The paper presents a study of the noise level of accelerometer data from a mobile phone compared to three commercially available IMU-based devices (AX3, Equivital, and Movesense) and a marker-based infrared motion capture ...
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A core aspect of musical performance is communicating emotional and expressive intentions to the audience. Recognition of the musician's intentions is constructed from a combination of visual and auditory performance cues, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Introduction
A growing body of research reflects the interest in meaningful moments in music therapeutic treatment and the client--therapist relationship; however, little insight has been given into the client’s subjective ...
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The combination of music and the moving image is prevalent in our society, occurring in visual art forms and media such as movies, music videos, and commercials. The relationship between the two has received much interest ...
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The current motor literature suggests that extraneous cognitive load may affect performance and kinematics in a primary motor task. A common response to increased cognitive demand, as observed in past studies, might be to ...
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Body movements play a crucial role in music performance and perception, and they do so well beyond those devoted to sound production itself. Various movements related to the performer’s emotional intentions or structural ...
Interperformer coordination in piano-singing duo performances: Metrical structure and empathy impact
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Musicians’ body motion plays a fundamental role in ensemble playing, by supporting sound production, communication, and expressivity. This research investigates how Western classical musicians’ head motion during ...
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Chez les peuples autochtones circumpolaires, en Eurasie comme en Amérique et au Groenland, des pratiques remarquablement similaires ont été documentées, consistant à attribuer aux nouveau-nés et aux enfants des chants ...
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This paper presents the Feedback Mop Cello, an instrument integrating acoustic feedback loops generated through a microphone and loudspeaker in combination with a control interface inspired by the cello. Current paradigms ...
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Neural networks have been found suitable for virtual analog modeling applications. Several analog audio effects have been successfully modeled with deep learning techniques, using low-latency and conditioned architectures ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Mental effort (intensity of attention) in elite sports has remained a debated topic and a challenging phenomenon to measure. Thus, a quasi-ecological laboratory study was conducted to investigate mental effort in elite ...
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This study compares three recent theories of expressive microtiming in music. While each theory was originally designed to engage a particular musical genre—Anne Danielsen’s beat bins for funk, Neo-Soul, ...
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This paper proposes a human-machine interactive music system for live performances based on autonomous agents, implemented through immersive extended reality. The interaction between humans and agents is grounded in concepts ...
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How does it feel to stand still in silence with others for 10 minutes at a time? The current chapter reports on a study of a small group of musicians and dancers that used standstill as their regular "warm-up" activity ...
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ZRob is a robotic system designed for playing a snare drum. The robot is constructed with a passive flexible spring-based joint inspired by the human hand. This paper describes a study exploring rhythmic patterns by ...
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Abstract Recent research suggests that music can affect evaluations of other groups and cultures. However, little is known about the objective and subjective musical parameters that influence these evaluations. We aimed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
“A basic and basically unsolved problem in fluid dynamics is to determine the evolution of rising bubbles and falling drops of one miscible liquid in another” [D. D. Joseph and Y. Y. Renardy, Fundamentals of Two-Fluid ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
This dissertation investigates how acoustic parameters and musical elements can be generated and manipulated to induce beneficial mechanical stimulations and alterations in cell cultures. The research has been conducted ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
In musical genres such as neo-soul and hip-hop, beats often have a temporal shape that makes their location in time difficult to locate relative to a single point in time. Often this comes as a consequence of digital sound ...
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This paper presents an innovative experimental setup that employs the principles of audio technology to subject adherent cells to rhythmic vertical vibrations. We employ a novel approach that combines three-axis acceleration ...
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Expert musicians portray awe-inspiring precision, timing, and phrasing and may be thought to partake in a “hive-mind.” Such a shared musical absorption is characterized by a heightened empathic relation, mutual trust, and ...
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This paper reports on an experiment that investigated how guitarists signal the intended timing of a rhythmic event in a groove-based context via three different features related to sound-producing motions of impulsive ...
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Shaping events at the microlevel of rhythm is an important aspect of many groove-based musics. In the present study, we explore the interconnectedness of musical parameters such as timing, attack shape, timbre ...
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Norske folkemusikkarkiver står foran utfordringer vedrørende å gjøre sine samlinger tilgjengelige på nett når feltopptak faller i det fri etter 50 år. Denne artikkelen beskriver et forsøk på å tilrettelegge brukskopier i ...
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Research has repeatedly suggested that an external focus of attention is far superior to an internal focus of attention in motor learning and performance. Such findings have been explained through the lens of automaticity, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
So-called "live coding" is a new type of music performance in which the performer writes a computer program that makes music in real-time. In his PhD, Qichao Lan has explored different types of live coding and how this ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
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 ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
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 ...
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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 ...
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Abstract Groove, understood as an enjoyable compulsion to move to musical rhythms, typically varies along an inverted U-curve with increasing rhythmic complexity (e.g., syncopation, pickups). Predictive coding accounts ...
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Intelligent robots aimed for performing music and playing musical instruments have been developed in recent years. With the advancements in artificial intelligence and robotic systems, new capabilities have been explored ...
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Emotions have been found to play a paramount role in both everyday music experiences and health applications of music, but the applicability of musical emotions depends on: 1) which emotions music can induce, 2) how it ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
How can we make music with artificial intelligence (AI) in the future? Unlike most studies on AI and music, this dissertation focuses on physical interaction and the ways in which the computer can respond to body movement. ...
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We present a proof of concept by using the mobile application MusicLab to measure motion during a livestreamed concert and examining its relation to musical features. With the MusicLab App, participants’ own smartphones’ ...
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There have been several studies investigating whether musical sound can be used as cell stimuli in recent years. We systematically searched publications to get an overview of studies that have used audible sound played ...
A trio of biological rhythms and their relevance in rhythmic mechanical stimulation of cell cultures
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The primary aim of this article is to provide a biological rhythm model based on previous theoretical and experimental findings to promote more comprehensive studies of rhythmic mechanical stimulation of cell cultures, ...
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This paper describes the development of two musical instrument prototypes developed to explore how non-haptic music technologies can be accessed from a web browser and how they can offer accessibility for people with low ...
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We present an ongoing project dedicated to the transmutation of a collection of field recordings of Norwegian folk music established in the 1960s into an easily accessible online catalogue augmented with advanced music ...
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Athlete participation in youth international competitions is often regarded as crucial to the attainment of future success. However, the link between participation and performance in sports at youth levels and senior levels ...
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Deep learning models applied to raw audio are rapidly gaining relevance in modeling audio analog devices. This paper investigates the use of different deep architectures for modeling audio optical compression. The models ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
In this Special Issue, we celebrate the connection between the physics of fluids, food science and education. We received over 30 articles concerning all types of kitchen flows, from simple to complex, from small to large ...
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In this interview, Kyle Devine and Christoph Jacke discuss how the worlds of popular music, and popular music research, are responding to climate issues. They touch on Devine’s recent books, Decomposed (2019) and Audible ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
When we attend to something within a rapid sequence, the ‘eyes of attention’ appear to shut for a short period of time, limiting our information processing ability. This thesis details an investigation into the factors ...
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When people play music together, they move their bodies, and that movement plays an important role in the activity of group music making. In contrast, when robots play music with people, the robots are usually stiff and ...
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As formal theoretical linguistic methodology has matured, recent years have seen the advent of applying it to objects of study that transcend language, e.g., to the syntax and semantics of music (Lerdahl ...
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A techno-cognitive look at how new technologies are shaping the future of musicking. “Musicking” encapsulates both the making of and perception of music, so it includes both active and passive forms of musical engagement. ...
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Music often evokes a regular beat and a pleasurable sensation of wanting to move to that beat called groove. Recent studies show that a rhythmic pattern’s ability to evoke groove increases at moderate levels of syncopation, ...
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In this article, we explore the various ways in which drummers express a simple ‘backbeat’ pattern when asked to play with different timing styles (laid-back, on-beat, pushed) via manipulation of stroke onset and intensity ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Instrumental ensemble playing is a creative process involving real-time interpersonal coordination of sounds, gestures, and musical ideas by two or more musicians. In this chapter, we discuss the psychological mechanisms ...
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This article frames the relationship between datafication and literacy as a key to understand participation, power, and processes of democratization in a platform–dominated music industry. Drawing upon a Norwegian surve ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2022)
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 ...
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A study investigating Transformer and LSTM models applied to raw audio for automatic generation of counterpoint was conducted. In particular, the models learned to generate missing voices from an input melody, using a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Music listening is a great resource for mental well-being, pleasure, and self-regulation, but it may also be maladaptive. Depression, for instance, has been shown to relate to music use that is characterized by rumination, ...
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The focus of this mini-review is on rhythm objects, defined as strongly coherent chunks of combined sound and body motion in music, typically in the duration range of a few seconds, as may for instance be found in a fragment ...
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The EU’s directive on copyright in the digital single market (the DSM directive) has been associated with pervasive transformations in the exploitation of copyright-protected work, particularly by holding online services, ...
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This paper describes a toolkit for analyzing the NIME proceedings archive, which facilitates the bibliometric study of the conference papers and the identification of trends and patterns. The toolkit is implemented as a ...
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Musicians experience varying degrees of togetherness with their co-performers when playing in ensembles. However, little is known about how togetherness is experienced by audiences and how interpersonal dynamics in body ...
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This study was initiated as the pandemic erupted in the spring of 2020, triggered by our curiosity about the wave of Internet-mediated concerts which followed in the wake of COVID-19. The article examines what kind of ...
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Musical imagery, defined as having sensations of musical sound in our minds in the absence of any direct auditory input from the outside world, may be both a nuisance (“tune stuck in our ears” or “earworms”) and a pleasure ...
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Christmas, as the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, is a central and joyful feast of Christian worship. In medieval and early modern Europe, this translated into a rich musical tradition, of which ...
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Attentional selection of a second target in a rapid stream of stimuli embedding two targets tends to be briefly impaired when two targets are presented in close temporal proximity, an effect known as an attentional blink ...
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Expressive communication in the arts often involves deviations from stylistic norms, which can increase the aesthetic evaluation of an artwork or performance. The detection and appreciation of such expressive deviations ...
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This article approaches an Indigenous singing tradition, the yoik, practiced by the Sámi people in the north of Europe, as a way of knowing the environment through presence rather than meaning. The yoik consists of short ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
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 ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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), ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2021)
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. ...
“Help! I Need Somebody”: Music as a Global Resource for Obtaining Wellbeing Goals in Times of Crisis
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...