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• Danielsen, Anne (2018). Pulse as Dynamic Attending: Analysing Beat Bin Metre in Neo Soul Grooves, In Ciro Scotto; Kenneth M. Smith & John Brackett (ed.),  The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches.  Routledge.  ISBN 9781138683112.  Chapter 12.
• Nardocci, Margrethe Førre (2018). Il lessico musicale nei modi di dire in italiano e in norvegese :. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa).  ISSN 1890-9639.  10(1), s 119- 141
• Eriksen, Asbjørn Øfsthus (2018). «Fra pessimisme til sosialistisk realisme. Symfonikeren Nikolaj Mjaskovskij (1881–1950)», del 1. Studia Musicologica Norvegica.  ISSN 0332-5024.  44(1), s 79- 101
• Lartillot, Olivier; Thedens, Hans-Hinrich & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Computational model of pitch detection, perceptive foundations, and application to Norwegian fiddle music, In Richard Parncutt & Sabrina Sattmann (ed.),  Proceedings of ICMPC15/ESCOM10.  Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz.  ISBN 978-3-200-05771-5.  article.  s 252 - 255 Show summary

  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 models have been so far less successful than engineering methods, and in particular machine learning models. One reference model (Klapuri, 2006) preselects pitch candidates based on harmonic summation and searches for multiple pitches through cancellation. Aims The aim was to conceive a model for pitch detection in polyphonic music able to transcribe in details traditional Norwegian music played on Hardanger fiddle, where more than two strings are played at the same time. The new model should be applicable to other types of music as well. Perceptive and cognitive models should guide the improvement of the state of the art. Main Contribution The model is neither based on a machine-learning training on a given set of samples, nor explicitly relying on stylistic rules. Instead, the methodology consists in conceiving a set of rules as simple and general as possible while offering satisfying results for the chosen corpus of music. We follow some general principles of the model by (Klapuri 2006) while introducing new heuristics. We present a new method for harmonic summation that penalises harmonic series that are sparse, in particular when odd partials are absent, as it would indicate that the actual harmonic series is a multiple of the given pitch candidate. Besides, a multiple of a fundamental can be selected as pitch in addition to the fundamental itself if its attack phase is sufficiently distinctive. For that purpose, we introduce a concept of pitch percept that persists over the whole extent of the note, and that serves as a reference for the detection of higher pitches at harmonic intervals. Results The proposed method enables to obtain transcriptions of relatively good quality, with a low ratio of false positives and false negatives. The construction of the model is under refinement. We are applying this method to the analysis of recordings of Norwegian folk music, containing a large part of Hardinger fiddle pieces and a cappella singing. Implications Automated transcription is of high interest for musicology and music information retrieval. This enables for instance to build large corpora of scores for music analysis and opens news perspectives for computational musicology. By attempting to design computer models based on general rules as simple as possible rather than on machine learning, while resulting in a behaviour in terms of pitch detection that comes closer to human capabilities, we hypothesise that the underlying mechanisms thus modelled might suggest general computational capabilities that could be found in cognitive models as well. In the same time, an improvement of the model based on expertise in music perception and cognition is desired. References Benetos et al. (2013). Automatic music transcription: challenges and future directions. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 41, 407-434 Klapuri, Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation by Summing Harmonic Amplitudes. ISMIR 2006 Keywords: pitch, computational model, harmonic summation, Norwegian folk music, Hardanger fiddle.

• Borregaard, Andreas; Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina & Hawkins, Roddy (2018). Music, complexity, and embodiment in performance: a conversation with accordionist Andreas Borregaard. The Senses & Society.  ISSN 1745-8927.  13(3), s 335- 345 . doi: 10.1080/17458927.2018.1525200
• Godøy, Rolf Inge (2018). Motor Constraints Shaping Musical Experience. Music Theory Online.  ISSN 1067-3040.  24(3)
• Kelkar, Tejaswinee; Roy, Udit & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Evaluating a collection of Sound-Tracing Data of Melodic Phrases, In Emilia Gómez; Xiao Hu; Eric Humphrey & Emmanouil Benetos (ed.),  Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference.  Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique.  ISBN 978-2-9540351-2-3.  KAPITTEL. Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  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 a dataset containing 16 melodic phrases from four musical styles and with a large range of contour variability. This is accompanied by full-body motion capture data of 26 participants performing sound-tracing to the melodies. The dataset is analyzed using canonical correlation analysis (CCA), and its neural network variant (Deep CCA), to understand how melodic contours and sound tracings relate to each other. The analyses reveal non-linear relationships between sound and motion. The link between pitch and verticality does not appear strong enough for complex melodies. We also find that descending melodic contours have the least correlation with tracing.

• Câmara, Guilherme Schmidt & Danielsen, Anne (2018). Groove, In Rehding Alexander & Rings Steven (ed.),  The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory.  Oxford University Press.  ISBN 9780190454746.  Groove. Show summary

  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 general understandings of groove: (1) pattern and performance; (2) pleasure and “wanting to move”; and (3) a state of being. The authors then propose a set of typical (rhythmic) features that seem to be common to a wide range of groove-based styles, exploring five main categories: pulse or regular beat; subdivision of the beat; syncopation; counter-rhythm; and microrhythm. Finally, the chapter presents some viable approaches to the analysis of groove, focusing on swing and anticipated beats in James Brown’s “Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine” (1970), aspects of counter-rhythm in Jackie Wilson’s “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” (1967), and the extending of beats into beat bins in D’Angelo’s “Left & Right” (2000) and Rihanna’s “Needed Me” (2016).

• Gadir, Tami (2018). Understanding Agency from the Decks to the Dance Floor. Music Theory Online.  ISSN 1067-3040.  24(3) Show summary

  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 such perspectives, bringing them into conversation with one another. It begins with a conceptual summary juxtaposing the accounts of musical agency that different fields employ and traces their intellectual influences. The article concludes with examples from interviews and fieldwork in contemporary dance club settings that illustrate, but also further complicate, the notion of musical agency.

• Danielsen, Anne; Kjus, Yngvar & Kraugerud, Emil (2018). Gendered patterns in music mediation: a study of male and female performers at the Øya festival using multiple data sources. Poetics.  ISSN 0304-422X. . doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2018.09.002
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). The Musical Gestures Toolbox for Matlab, In Emilia Gómez; Xiao Hu; Eric Humphrey & Emmanouil Benetos (ed.),  Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference.  Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique.  ISBN 978-2-9540351-2-3.  Demo. Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  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.

• Størvold, Tore (2018). Sigur Ros: Reception, borealism, and musical style. Popular Music.  ISSN 0261-1430.  37(3), s 371- 391 . doi: 10.1017/S0261143018000442
• Hawkins, Stan (2018). Introduction: David Bowie (1947-2016). Contemporary Music Review.  ISSN 0749-4467.  37(3), s 189- 192 . doi: 10.1080/07494467.2018.1507349
• Bradley, Catherine A. (2018). Origins and Interactions: Clausula, Motet, Conductus, In Jared C. Hartt (ed.),  A Critical Companion to Medieval Motets.  Boydell & Brewer.  ISBN 9781783273072.  Chapter 2.  s 43 - 60
• Patel-Grosz, Pritty; Grosz, Patrick Georg; Kelkar, Tejaswinee & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Coreference and disjoint reference in the semantics of narrative dance, In Uli Sauerland & Stephanie Solt (ed.),  Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, vol. 2, ZASPiL 61.  Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS).  Chapter in Vol. 2.  s 199 - 216
• Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Correspondences Between Music and Involuntary Human Micromotion During Standstill. Frontiers in Psychology.  ISSN 1664-1078.  9 . doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01382 Show summary

  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, however, is still scarce. Insight into crucial aspects of music cognition, as well as characterization of the vestibular and sensorimotor systems could be largely improved through a description of the underlying links between music and involuntary movement. This study presents an analysis aimed at quantifying involuntary body motion of a small magnitude (micromotion) during standstill, as well as assessing the correspondences between such micromotion and different sound features of the musical stimuli: pulse clarity, amplitude, and spectral centroid. A total of 71 participants were asked to stand as still as possible for 6 min while being presented with alternating silence and music stimuli: Electronic Dance Music (EDM), Classical Indian music, and Norwegian fiddle music (Telespringar). The motion of each participant's head was captured with a marker-based, infrared optical system. Differences in instantaneous position data were computed for each participant and the resulting time series were analyzed through cross-correlation to evaluate the delay between motion and musical features. The mean quantity of motion (QoM) was found to be highest across participants during the EDM condition. This musical genre is based on a clear pulse and rhythmic pattern, and it was also shown that pulse clarity was the metric that had the most significant effect in induced vertical motion across conditions. Correspondences were also found between motion and both brightness and loudness, providing some evidence of anticipation and reaction to the music. Overall, the proposed analysis techniques provide quantitative data and metrics on the correspondences between micromotion and music, with the EDM stimulus producing the clearest music-induced motion patterns. The analysis and results from this study are compatible with embodied music cognition and sensorimotor synchronization theories, and provide further evidence of the movement inducing effects of groove-related music features and human response to sound stimuli. Further work with larger data sets, and a wider range of stimuli, is necessary to produce conclusive findings on the subject.

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• Bradley, Catherine A. (2018). Polyphony in Medieval Paris: The Art of Composing with Plainchant. Cambridge University Press.  ISBN 9781108418584.  298 s.
• Bradley, Catherine A. & Desmond, Karen (ed.) (2018). The Montpellier Codex: The Final Fascicle. Contents, Contexts, Chronologies. Boydell & Brewer.  ISBN 978-1-78327-272-3.  351 s.

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• Watne, Åshild (2018). Duke Ellington: Sacred Concert.
• Kelkar, Tejaswinee (2018). Python Toolboxes for Mocap Analysis.
• Jones, Ellis Nathaniel (2018). Are platforms 'deskilling' musicians?.
• Jones, Ellis Nathaniel (2018). DIY as the new default. Show summary

  The event seeks to analyse the following questions: to what extent do the divisions between labels, distributors, and stores still obtain after the internet? Do notions of 'major', 'independent', and 'DIY' still carry the same descriptive and analytical meaning in light of self-publishing platforms like Bandcamp, or do we need new concepts to capture the ways in which popular, unpopular, fringe and underground musicians move between institutions and fields? How should we theorise the complex relations between musical media - CD, vinyl, cassette tape, streaming - in contemporary popular musics, and what roles do institutions play in mediating these relations? Are platform-based musical institutions more labile and transitory than their bricks-and-mortar precursors, or is this view now outdated in the age of the 'normal internet'? With the 'gig economy' ascendent--a concept derived from musical labour that is today used to capture the precarity of 21st century work--analysing musical labour and its supporting institutions seems more important than ever. Does musical work serve as barometer for current labour conditions?

• Jones, Ellis Nathaniel (2018). Imagining an audience in DIY music.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). How I try to do it FAIR.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Motion Capture in Music Performance, Perception and Interaction.
• Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas (2018). Julekonsert med Sinsenfist (Belleville).
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Sundquist, Jonas Hartford & Eriksen, Siri Øverland (2018, 09. september). De er studenter ved to universiteter samtidig. [Internett].  Khrono. Show summary

  NTNU og Universitetet i Oslo har for første gang gått sammen om å lage et fellles studieprogram. Resultatet er masteren Music, Communication and Techonology.

• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Paneldeltagelse: Veien til åpen tilgang - konsekvenser og implementering av Plan S.
• Kjus, Yngvar (2018). The use of copyright in digital times: A study of how singer-songwriters exercise their rights in evolving music markets.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Åpen forskning - et humanistisk-teknologisk perspektiv.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). The recording and use of videos from music events – how to balance ethical requirements and FAIR principles using data from live concerts, music performances and the like?.
• Eriksen, Asbjørn Øfsthus & Edwards, Peter (2018). Musikk og humor.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Evaluering, merittering og forskningsvurdering.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Comments on Open Science - Do we need a national action plan?.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Omvendt klasserom mellom to universiteter: Master Programme in Music, Communication & Technology.
• Schia, Katja Henriksen; Erdem, Cagri; Lan, Qichao & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Music-Dance Performance: "Rhythm".
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Danielsen, Anne; London, Justin; Schia, Katja Henriksen & Abramczyk, Filip (2018). Intellectual warm-up: "Rhythm".
• Vestre, Eskil Olaf; Danielsen, Anne; Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; London, Justin; Schia, Katja Henriksen & Abramczyk, Filip (2018, 21. november). Rytmen er en danser. [Fagblad].  Ballade.
• Lartillot, Olivier (2018). Computational musicological analysis of notated music: a brief overview. Show summary

  Since the dawn of informatics, computer-based analysis of notated music has been attempted. I present a brief overview of the research in this area, covering the various tasks of music analysis, such as melodic, rhythmic, metrical, motivic or structural analyses, and evoking diverse methodological alternatives. I will discuss about the current state of the art, in particular the limitations of computational approaches so far, the technical challenges, and how I propose to transcend the current limitations. Practical applications of this area of research will be discussed, such as retrieval of musical queries in databases, automated identification (of genre, composer, etc.) or music performance and generation.

• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum & Tømte, Even (2018, 08. november). Når bassisten står 500 kilometer unna. [Fagblad].  Musikkultur. Show summary

  På masterprogrammet Music, communication, and technology bruker studenter i Oslo og Trondheim avansert videokonferanseutstyr til å jamme i sanntid.

• Aareskjold, Jon Marius (2018). Sound of Light.
• Aareskjold, Jon Marius (2018). Torun Eriksen - Luxury and Waste.
• Kjus, Yngvar (2018). Musical negotiations: How singer-songwriters relate to economy and copyright in digital times. Show summary

  Musical negotiations: How singer-songwriters relate to economy and copyright in digital times

• Nymoen, Kristian (2018). Soundtracer - Et innblikk i innholdsbasert arkivsøk. Show summary

  Et musikkopptak inneholder store mengder informasjon. I fagfaltet Music Information Retrieval forskes det på teknikker for å hente ut informasjon fra selve lydsignalet. Disse teknikkene gir nye og spennende muligheter for søk i lydarkiv – enten som supplement til, eller i stedet for, metadata. Hvordan kan man søke i et lydarkiv etter et bestemt intonasjonsmønster eller en bestemt rytmikk? Og hva skal til for å søke i et arkiv ved å nynne, klappe, eller bevege seg?

• Nymoen, Kristian (2018). Music Information Retrieval.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Sophus Bugges Salong: Rytmer og følelser. Show summary

  Hvorfor opplever vi rytmer og tid slik vi gjør? "RITMO Senter for tverrfaglig forskning på rytme, tid og bevegelse" vil gi oss svaret.

• Alarcón Diaz, Ximena (2018). Workshop: Listening to Migration. Show summary

  Workshop: Listening To Migration Sentralen/Gymsalen 14/9, 11 – 15 Free Entry, including refreshments Artistic research project INTIMAL invites everyone interested to a one-day workshop dedicated to listening deeply to traces of human migration. Led by Ximena Alarcón Diaz, participants will carry out sonic meditations involving breathing, body movement, dream awareness and voice expression. Participants are invited to explore in-between sonic spaces through the actions and to connect with individual memories and collective migratory journeys. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening practice, combined with Embodied Music Cognition methods, this INTIMAL workshop explores the role of the body as a medium that carries a memory of place. The project is developed by Ximena Alarcón Diaz at RITMO (Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion), Department of Musicology, University of Oslo. The workshop has a capacity of 15 and is open to all comers. Free Pre-registration here is required by 3 September: http://bit.ly/2nC7QSy Produced in collaboration with INTIMAL. Ultima Context is supported by Norsk Komponistforening, Fritt Ord and Bergesenstiftelsen.

• Alarcón Diaz, Ximena (2018). INTIMAL: Migrant Women's Sonic Statements of Presence. Show summary

  Departing from the fieldwork of the art research project INTIMAL, and reflecting on studies of gender, emotions, embodiment and migration (Brooks & Simpson, 2013; Ahmed, 2000), listening, language and voice studies (Oliveros, 2005; Choi, 2017; Cavarero, 2005; El Haouli, 2014) this paper suggests how listening and improvisatory mediated telematic performance (Alarcon, 2014), become key relational processes opening paths for women to explore identities, and heal feelings of loss, while augmenting their sense of space and acoustic presence. INTIMAL is a physical-virtual embodied interactive system that explores the body as an “interface” that keeps memory of place in migratory contexts, and through the practice of telematic sonic improvisatory performance. In the historical context of Colombian post-conflict and European diaspora, the research analyses the embodied acoustic experiences of nine Colombian migrant women living in Barcelona, London and Oslo, following their creative and personal healing process as they engage in a Deep Listening process (Oliveros, 2005) to their surroundings, language, voice, and silences, through memories and dreams (Lewis, 2005), and listening body (Gold, 2008), meeting physically and using internet-mediated communication. In the process, they also respond to an oral archive of testimonies from the Commission of Colombian Women in Diaspora (2017) with experiences rooted in the Colombian conflict. The resulting narratives have been recorded through Embodied Music Cognition methods (Jensenius, 2018), looking at individual agency and togetherness. Thus, the paper highlights how listening and expression processes through body movement, language and voice, free and technologically mediated improvisatory physical-virtual performance, help in the unfolding of layers of historical and cultural memory of conflict, including gendered violence (Thomas, 2006; Tolton, 2011; Tolton, 2014), as women move from a sense of place to the creation of a sense of presence (and telepresence) (ISPR, 2000), through individual and collective statements of presence.

• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018, 14. oktober). Forskerbloggen: Hvorfor får man lyst til å danse til musikk?. [TV].  NRK.
• Aubinet, Stéphane (2018). Sámi joik and the singing body as a more-than-human ecology.
• Aubinet, Stéphane (2018). Musical notation and non-human voices in Sámi joik.
• Aubinet, Stéphane (2018). Franchir l'horizon par la voix dans le joik Sámi (Laponie).
• Werner, Ann; Gadir, Tami & de Boise, Sam (2018). Past the Point of Representation: New Agendas in Research on Music and Gender. Show summary

  Gender inequalities have long been documented within and across different music spaces. Yet whilst there has been an emphasis on equality as an issue of quantitative representation, or ‘more equal’ numbers of binary genders, inequalities still persist. Furthermore, intersectional feminist critiques have indicated that quantitative, binary measures tend to privilege white, cisgendered bodies, whilst post- and de-colonial approaches have argued that radically reforming patriarchal and colonial institutions, including greater appreciation of geopolitics, mean thinking beyond issues of quantitative representation within institutions. This panel aims to demonstrate how emerging work within cultural and gender studies can help to develop new questions around aesthetics and music practice, in tandem with analyses of intersectionally gendered inequalities. Through exploring the affective dimensions of gender, ontological questions of gendered subjectivity(/ies) and the gendered structuring of material music environments, it aims to offer affirmative strategies for studying, analysing and transforming gender inequalities in relation to music.

• Gadir, Tami (2018). Musical “Quality” over Gender Equality? When Culture Clashes with Law. Show summary

  My proposed presentation addresses the disparities between the legal and the cultural: on the one hand, equality legislation enacted through formalised workplace policies; on the other, the everyday cultural and political attitudes inscribed into musical practices. I use the case of Musikkfest, Oslo, and a recent history of gender equality in Norway, to show how the rhetorics of postfeminism, individualism, and meritocracy affect musicians who are not male and not white. This aligns with current, global, populist backlashes against so-called political correctness. I further critique the profoundly gendered ideas of “talent” or “skill” in the discourses of music practitioners. Providing further examples of DJs from around the world, I show how such paradigms currently dominate music cultures as much as they do world politics. Overarchingly, I critique the ways that such paradigms are woven into musical aesthetic judgements that, in effect, validate discriminatory practices.

• Gadir, Tami; Meanwell, Peter; Jensen, Juno & Bellebono, Jon (2018). Borealis Festival Presents: Creating Spaces, Taking Risks (Panel).
• Gadir, Tami (2018). Dance Music: Just Being Human.
• Gadir, Tami (2018). Dance Music: Just Being Human.
• Sioros, Georgios (2018). What we do when we move to music v.2.
• Dahl, Sofia & Sioros, George (2018). Rhythmic recurrency in dance to music with ambiguous meter. Show summary

  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 participant, position in the music, and between groups. The lags of maximum recurrence were only partly corresponding to the metrical levels of the music and syncopated sections confused participants so that they moved to 4/4 rather than 6/8.

• Haugen, Mari Romarheim (2018). Meter i Skandinavisk folkemusikk.
• Kraugerud, Emil (2018). Take Time.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). The Musical Gestures Toolbox for Matlab. Show summary

  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.

• Hawkins, Stan (2018). Nordic Utopias and the Project of Daydreaming.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Hvilken type IKT-kompetanse trenger humanister og samfunnsvitere?.
• Bøhn, Einar Duenger; Smajdor, Anna Colette & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Humaniora og teknologi.
• Danielsen, Anne & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Rytme i tid og rom.
• Martin, Charles Patrick; Lesteberg, Mari; Jawad, Karolina; Aandahl, Eigil; Xambó, Anna & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Stillness under Tension.
• Martin, Charles Patrick; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata; Erdem, Cagri & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Stillness under Tension.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Introduction to Musical Gestures Toolbox for Matlab.
• Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Muscle activity response of the audience during an experimental music performance. Show summary

  This exploratory study investigates muscular activity characteristics of a group of audience members during an experimental music performance. The study was designed to be as ecologically valid as possible, collecting data in a concert venue and making use of low-invasive measurement techniques. Muscle activity (EMG) from the forearms of 8 participants revealed that sitting in a group could be an indication of a level of group engagement, while comparatively greater muscular activity from a participant sitting at close distance to the stage suggests performance-induced bodily responses. The self-reported measures rendered little evidence supporting the links between muscular activity and live music exposure, although a larger sample size and a wider range of music styles need to be included in future studies to provide conclusive results.

• Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas (2018). Konsert med Sinsenfist.
• Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild; Aareskjold, Jon Marius & Sandvik, Bjørnar (2018). EDM Producers' Reflections on Groove.
• Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild & Sinnreich, Aram (2018). Do You Wanna Build a Wall? Remix Tactics in the Age of Trump.
• London, Justin; Danielsen, Anne & Nymoen, Kristian (2018). Where is the beat in that note? Effects of attack, frequency, and duration on the p-centers of musical and quasi-musical sounds.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Fremtiden er analog - perspektiver på humaniora og teknologi.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Ny musikkforskning ved RITMO.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Kunnskapsledelse av et Senter for fremragende forskning.
• Kraugerud, Emil (2018). Hyperintimacy in St. Vincent's "Hang On Me".
• Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Alluri, Vinoo & Seibt, Beate (2018). Moved by music: Investigating continuous ratings and contributing musical features. Show summary

  In the past few years, the emotion commonly labelled ‘being moved’ has attracted increasing research interest in the context of the arts (e.g., Wassiliwizky et al., 2015; Eerola et al., 2016). ‘Being moved’ is typically characterized as a mixed or predominantly positive emotion, with joy and sadness as its main ingredients. In the context of music listening, feelings of being moved have been found to mediate the enjoyment of sad music (Vuoskoski & Eerola, 2017). However, little is known about the time course of such experiences. The aim of the present study was to investigate continuously rated experiences of ‘being moved’ in response to music, and how these experiences relate to perceived sadness, happiness, and beauty. 415 participants took part in a pre-registered online experiment where they heard 7 moving music excerpts (3 sad, 3 happy, and 1 neutral; duration 121-186 s) and continuously rated their experience or perception (1 scale per participant per excerpt). Before analyses, the continuous rating data was averaged (within each song), de-trended, and downsampled. Perceived beauty cross-correlated highly with being moved across all excerpts (CCF0 = .59). Being moved correlated with perceived happiness in both joyfully (CCF0 = .66) and sadly (CCF0 = .52) moving excerpts, but with perceived sadness only in the sadly moving excerpts (CCF0 = .48). An exploratory analysis of computationally extracted musical features revealed partly excerpt-dependent patterns of correlations, but RMS energy and spectral entropy – reflecting changes in loudness and broadness of the frequency range – significantly correlated with being moved across most pieces.

• Danielsen, Anne (2018, 16. august). Intervju om Aretha Franklin til NTB.
• Danielsen, Anne (2018, 16. august). Intervju om Aretha Franklin i Dagsnytt, NRK 2. [TV].
• Danielsen, Anne (2018). Microrhythms and Microsounds: The impact of digitization on African-American popular music.
• Bradley, Catherine A. & Desmond, Karen (2018). Introduction, In Catherine A. Bradley & Karen Desmond (ed.),  The Montpellier Codex: The Final Fascicle. Contents, Contexts, Chronologies.  Boydell & Brewer.  ISBN 978-1-78327-272-3.  Introduction.  s 1 - 10
• Hagen, Anja Nylund (2018). Changing practices in a globalised and digitalised music industry.
• Hagen, Anja Nylund (2018). Norwegian music industry as global and digital media industry.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum & Klausen, Aslaug Olette (2018, 30. august). Nytt musikkteknologstudie skal foregå i Oslo og Trondheim samtidig. [Internett].  Ballade. Show summary

  Masterprogrammet er det første delte studiet i sitt slag, mellom NTNU og Universitet i Oslo.

• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum & Lie, Tove (2018, 21. august). Ønsker lærernorm i høyere utdanning: Maksimalt 20 studenter per foreleser. [Internett].  Khrono. Show summary

  Det er på tide å diskutere en lærernorm for høyere utdanning, mener førsteamanuensis ved Universitetet i Oslo, Alexander Refsum Jensenius.

• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum & Tønnessen, Eva (2018, 22. mars). Står mot hverandre om hva som er best for å sikre topp forskning. [Internett].  Khrono. Show summary

  Forskningsmiljøer står mot hverandre i en debatt om hvordan best satse langsiktig på å utvikle forskningsmiljøer i verdenstoppen. Nå tar Arbeiderpartiets Nina Sandberg debatten inn i Stortinget.

• Jære, Lisbet; Danielsen, Anne & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018, 30. august). På sporet av rytmen. [Internett].  Uniforum. Show summary

  Hvorfor får vi lyst til å bevege oss når vi hører musikk? Vinnerne av UiOs innovasjonspris, Anne Danielsen og Alexander Refsum Jensenius, finner forhåpentligvis svaret når de fordyper seg i mennesket og rytmens mysterier.

• Toft, Martin & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018, 29. august). UiO og NTNU har starta revolusjonerande studium i musikkteknologi. [Internett].  Uniforum. Show summary

  I dag opna Universitetet i Oslo og NTNU eit felles masterprogram der studentane skal utvikla musikkteknologi i det felles elektroniske klasserommet Portalen. – Det er utruleg at det er blitt realisert to år etter at eg kom med ideen, seier musikkforskar Alexander Refsum Jensenius.

• Vinje, Petrine & Kelkar, Tejaswinee (2018). DEPOT. DEPOSITORY. RAYS EN UTSTILLING AV PETRINE VINJE.
• Aronsen, Jan Magnus & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). «Røvertidsskriftene» er bare toppen av isfjellet. Aftenposten. Show summary

  Staten betaler for ny kunnskap, gir den bort gratis, og kjøper den deretter tilbake av internasjonale forlag.

• Lartillot, Olivier; Thedens, Hans-Hinrich & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Computational model of pitch detection, perceptive foundations, and application to Norwegian fiddle music. Show summary

  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 models have been so far less successful than engineering methods, and in particular machine learning models. One reference model (Klapuri, 2006) preselects pitch candidates based on harmonic summation and searches for multiple pitches through cancellation. Aims The aim was to conceive a model for pitch detection in polyphonic music able to transcribe in details traditional Norwegian music played on Hardanger fiddle, where more than two strings are played at the same time. The new model should be applicable to other types of music as well. Perceptive and cognitive models should guide the improvement of the state of the art. Main Contribution The model is neither based on a machine-learning training on a given set of samples, nor explicitly relying on stylistic rules. Instead, the methodology consists in conceiving a set of rules as simple and general as possible while offering satisfying results for the chosen corpus of music. We follow some general principles of the model by (Klapuri 2006) while introducing new heuristics. We present a new method for harmonic summation that penalises harmonic series that are sparse, in particular when odd partials are absent, as it would indicate that the actual harmonic series is a multiple of the given pitch candidate. Besides, a multiple of a fundamental can be selected as pitch in addition to the fundamental itself if its attack phase is sufficiently distinctive. For that purpose, we introduce a concept of pitch percept that persists over the whole extent of the note, and that serves as a reference for the detection of higher pitches at harmonic intervals. Results The proposed method enables to obtain transcriptions of relatively good quality, with a low ratio of false positives and false negatives. The construction of the model is under refinement. We are applying this method to the analysis of recordings of Norwegian folk music, containing a large part of Hardinger fiddle pieces and a cappella singing. Implications Automated transcription is of high interest for musicology and music information retrieval. This enables for instance to build large corpora of scores for music analysis and opens news perspectives for computational musicology. By attempting to design computer models based on general rules as simple as possible rather than on machine learning, while resulting in a behaviour in terms of pitch detection that comes closer to human capabilities, we hypothesise that the underlying mechanisms thus modelled might suggest general computational capabilities that could be found in cognitive models as well. In the same time, an improvement of the model based on expertise in music perception and cognition is desired. References Benetos et al. (2013). Automatic music transcription: challenges and future directions. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 41, 407-434 Klapuri, Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation by Summing Harmonic Amplitudes. ISMIR 2006 Keywords: pitch, computational model, harmonic summation, Norwegian folk music, Hardanger fiddle.

• Brandtsegg, Øyvind; Engum, Trond & Wærstad, Bernt Isak (2018). Working methods and instrument design for cross-adaptive sessions.
• Christophersen, Bjørn Morten (2018). Heimferd i et kompositorisk perspektiv.
• Christophersen, Bjørn Morten (2018). Workshop med live orkster (ung.kom 2018).
• Christophersen, Bjørn Morten (2018). 5 orkestreringer for ung.kom 2018.
• Christophersen, Bjørn Morten (2018). Vil du høre?.
• Mittal, Anant; Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina & Alluri, Vinoo (2018). Personality, trait empathy, and kinds of musical reward predict healthy and unhealthy music listening strategies.
• Haugen, Mari Romarheim (2018). The Effect of Tempo on Non-Isochronous Subdivisions in Performed Samba Groove. Show summary

  Several empirical studies have investigated the role of tempo on the characteristic non-isochronous long–short duration pattern on eight note level in jazz. Friberg and Sundström (1997) found an approximately linear decrease of swing ratio with increasing tempo and suggest a lower limit to the duration of the short second eight note around 100 ms. Honing and Haas (2008) found that the swing ratio is adapted to the overall tempo, but did not find that it scaled linearly with tempo. Non-isochronous subdivision patterns have also been found in samba groove (e.g., Gerischer, 2006; Haugen, 2016; Naveda, 2011)–that is, at the level of sixteenth notes. In samba groove the fourth sixteenth note seems to be longer in duration than the others. The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of tempo on the duration pattern on sixteenth note level in a performed samba groove. Two professional samba performers, a percussionist and a dancer, participated in the study. The analysis in present paper is based on the recorded sound. The percussionist played a samba groove at three different tempi: 133, 100, and 69 BPM. Since all the sixteenth notes are played in this recording, their temporal position could be detected using onset detection. Subsequently, the inter-onset-intervals (IOIs) between the sixteenth notes were calculated and converted into percent values according to their percentage of the beat. The analysis showed significant differences between all the sixteenth note durations in all three tempi–that is, a medium/long–short–medium/short–long duration pattern on sixteenth note level were found at all tempi. In addition, a significant interaction between sixteenth note type and tempo were found. The analysis showed that as the tempo increases the short second sixteenth note became shorter and the long fourth sixteenth note became longer. In the fastest tempo, the short second sixteenth note’s mean duration is only 68 ms, something that is much shorter than 100 ms that has previous been suggested to be the shortest interval that we can hear and perform. The results suggest that the non-isochronous duration pattern on sixteenth note level in samba becomes even more non-isochronous with increasing tempo. In addition, the results indicate that the lower limit for IOIs in samba groove is below 100 ms. REFERENCES: Friberg & Sundström. (1997). Preferred swing ratio in jazz as a function of tempo. Speech, Music, and Hearing: Quarterly Status and Progress Report (TMH-QSPR), 4, 19–27. Gerischer (2006). O suingue baiano: Rhythmic feeling and microrhythmic phenomena in Brazilian percussion. Ethnomusicology, 50(1), 99–119. Haugen (2016). Music–Dance. Investigating Rhythm Structures in Brazilian Samba and Norwegian Telespringar Performance. (Ph.D. Thesis), University of Oslo, Oslo. Honing & Haas (2008). Swing Once More: Relating Timing and Tempo in Expert Jazz Drumming. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 25(5), 471–476. doi:10.1525/mp.2008.25.5.471 Naveda (2011). Gesture in Samba: A cross-modal analysis of dance and music from the Afro-Brazilian culture. (Ph.D. thesis), Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University, Belgium, Ghent, Belgium.

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