Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen

Ongoing PhD-project:

Opaque Mediation in Popular Music: Aesthetical changes after the digitalization of technology.

Articles and book chapters:

Brøvig-Hanssen, R. and A. Danielsen: 'Popular Music Recordings as Virtual Environments: Toward a Framework for Analysing Sound '. Music Analysis (under review).

Brøvig-Hanssen, R. and P. Harkins (forthcoming 2012): 'Contextual Incongruity and Musical Congruity? The Aesthetics and Humour of Mash-ups'. Popular Music, 31(1).

Brøvig-Hanssen, R. (forthcoming 2011): 'The Magnetic Tape Recorder: Recording Aesthetics in the New Era of Schizophonia', in Weium F. and T. Boon (eds). Material Culture and Electronic Sound. Artefacts – Studies in the History of Science and Technology, Vol. 8. Smithsonian Scholarly Press/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
 

Brøvig-Hanssen, R. (2010): 'Opaque Mediation. The Cut-and-Paste Groove in DJ Food's "Break"', in Danielsen, A. (ed.) Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.

Brøvig-Andersen, R. (2007): Musikk og mediering. Teknologi relatert til sound og groove i trip-hop musikk. Masteroppgave ved Institutt for musikkvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo.

Selected presentations

'Recording as Virtual Environments: Towards a Framework for Analysing the Sound of Popular Music'. Paper delivered in collaboration with Anne Danielsen at the annual international Art of Record Production (ARP) conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, December 2010.

'The Strange Delights of "The Whipped Cream Mixes": The aesthetics, humour and tradition of mash-ups'. Paper delivered in collaboration with Paul Harkins at the annual international Art of Record Production (ARP) conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, December 2010.

'The aesthetics, humour and roots of "The Whipped Cream Mixes" and other mash-ups'. Paper delivered at a PhD-seminar with Professor Derek B. Scott. Department of Musicology, University of Agder, September 2010.

'Mash-up Masterpiece? The Aesthetics of Danger Mouse's Grey Album'. Paper delivered in collaboration with Paul Harkins at a research seminar, University of Edinburgh, November 2009.

'The Concept of Mediation'; Paper delivered at a PhD-seminar with Professor Allan F. Moore. Department of Musicology, University of Agder, September 2009.

'Opaque Mediation as an Aesthetic Ideal'; Paper delivered at the annual International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) conference, Liverpool, July 2009.

'Transparent Mediation and Representation'; Paper delivered at a PhD-seminar with Professor Lydia Goehr. Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, May 2009.

'Opaque Mediation: An exposure of cut-and-paste in Electronica'; Paper delivered at the annual international Art of Record Production (ARP) conference, University of Lowell (Boston), November 2008.
 

'Opaque Mediation as an Aesthetic Ideal'; Paper delivered at a PhD-seminar with Professor Susan McClary. Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, September 2008.

'Opaque Mediation as Part of the Composition - a study of Portishead's music': Paper delivered at the international Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction (RDR) conference, University of Oslo, October 2006.

'Groove in Trip-hop Music'; Papaer delivered at the international Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction (RDR) conference, University of Oslo, September 2005.