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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2024).
The Sound of the crew in rap:
Rapping chimeras, illusory posses and other fantastical creatures summoned in the studio and cipher.
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Danielsen, Anne
(2024).
There’s more to timing than time: P-centers, beat bins and groove in musical microrhythm.
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How does the dynamic shape of a sound affect its perceived microtiming? In the TIME project, we studied basic aspects of musical microrhythm, exploring both stimulus features and the participants’ enculturated expertise via perception experiments, observational studies of how musicians produce particular microrhythms, and ethnographic studies of musicians’ descriptions of microrhythm. Collectively, we show that altering the microstructure of a sound (“what” the sound is) changes its perceived temporal location (“when” it occurs). Specifically, there are systematic effects of core acoustic factors (duration, attack) on perceived timing. Microrhythmic features in longer and more complex sounds can also give rise to different perceptions of the same sound. Our results shed light on conflicting results regarding the effect of microtiming on the “grooviness” of a rhythm.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2024).
Vi skriv p? tog, og vi skriv p? tog - pitch.
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Br?vig, Ragnhild & Stevenson, Alex
(2023).
Machine Aesthetics: An Analytical Framework .
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Br?vig, Ragnhild
(2023).
Wakeful Sleep and Sleepy wakefulness in EDM.
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Leske, Sabine Liliana; Endestad, Tor; Volehaugen, Vegard; Foldal, Maja Dyhre; Blenkmann, Alejandro Omar & Solbakk, Anne-Kristin
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(2023).
Predicting the Beat Bin – Beta Oscillations Support Top-Down Prediction of The Temporal Precision of a Beat .
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Danielsen, Anne
(2023).
Ain’t that a groove! Musicological, philosophical and psychological perspectives on groove (keynote).
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The notion of groove is key to both musicians’ and academics’ discourses on musical rhythm. In this keynote, I will present groove’s historical grounding in African American musical practices and explore its current implications by addressing three distinct understandings of groove: as pattern and performance; as pleasure and “wanting to move”; and as a state of being. I will point out some musical features that seem to be shared among a wide range of groove-based styles, including syncopation and counterrhythm, swing and subdivision, and microrhythmic qualities. Ultimately, I will look at the ways in which the groove experience has been approached in different disciplines, drawing on examples from musicology / ethnomusicology, philosophy, psychology and neuroscience.
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Danielsen, Anne
(2023).
Decolonizing groove (panel discussion).
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C?mara, Guilherme Schmidt; Danielsen, Anne & Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2023).
Funky rhythms – broken beats!?Kulturelle og estetiske perspektiver p? groove-basert musikk.
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C?mara, Guilherme Schmidt; Sioros, Georgios; Danielsen, Anne; Nymoen, Kristian & Haugen, Mari Romarheim
(2023).
Sound-producing actions in guitar performance of groove-based microrhythm.
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This study 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 chord strokes (striking velocity, movement duration and fretboard position). 21 expert electric guitarists were instructed to perform a simple rhythmic pattern in three different timing styles—“laidback,” “on-the-beat,” and “pushed”—in tandem with a metronome. Results revealed systematic differences across participants in the striking velocity and movement duration of chords in the different timing styles. In general, laid-back strokes were played with lower striking velocity and longer movement duration relative to on-the-beat and pushed strokes. No differences in the fretboard striking position were found (neither closer to the “bridge” [bottom] or to the “neck” [head]). Correlations with previously reported audio features of the guitar strokes were also investigated, where lower velocity and longer movement duration generally corresponded with longer acoustic attack duration (signal onset to offset).
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Lartillot, Olivier; Thedens, Hans-Hinrich; Mjelva, Olav Lukseng?rd; Elovsson, Anders; Monstad, Lars L?berg & Johansson, Mats Sigvard
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(2023).
Norwegian Folk Music & Computational Analysis.
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As a prélude for Norway's Constitution Day, this special event celebrated the Norwegian folk music tradition, showcasing our new online archive and demonstrating the richness of Hardanger fiddle music, with live performance. One aim of the project is to conceive new technologies allowing to better access, understand and appreciate Norwegian folk music.
In this event, we introduced a new online version of the Norwegian Folk Music Archive and discuss underlying theoretical and technical challenges. A live concert/workshop, with the participation of Olav Lukseng?rd Mjelva, offered a lively introduction to Hardanger fiddle music and its elaborate rhythm. The interests and challenges of automated transcription and analysis were discussed, with the public release of our new software Annotemus.
The symposium was organised in the context of the MIRAGE project (RITMO, in collaboration with the National Library of Norway's Digital Humanities Laboratory).
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C?mara, Guilherme Schmidt; Spiech, Connor & Danielsen, Anne
(2023).
To asynchrony and beyond: In search of more ecological perceptual heuristics for microrhythmic structures in groove-based music.
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There is currently a gap in rhythm and timing research regarding how we perceive complex acoustic stimuli in musical contexts. Many studies have investigated timing acuity in non-musical contexts involving simple rhythmic sequences comprised of clicks or sine waves. However, the extent to which these results transfer to our perception of microrhythmic nuances in multilayered musical contexts rife with complex instrumental sounds remains poorly understood. In this talk we will present an overview of a planned series of just-noticeable difference (JND) experiments that will generate ecologically valid perceptual heuristics regarding timing discrimination thresholds. The aim is to investigate the extent to which microrhythmic timing and sonic nuances are perceived in groove-based music and connect these heuristics to the pleasurable urge to move in groove-based contexts, as well as acoustic (e.g., intensity, duration, frequency) and musical features (e.g., tempo, genre), and listener factors (e.g. musical training, stylistic familiarity). Overall, we expect timing thresholds to be higher for polyphonic/musical than for monotonic/non-musical stimuli/contexts and higher for pulse attribution (whether one can perceive a “beat”; Madison & Merker 2002, Psychol Res) than for simple detection of asynchrony and anisochrony (whether one can perceive “rhythmic irregularities”). Thresholds will likely be modulated by intensity (Goebl & Parncutt 2002, ICMPC7), tempo (Friberg & Sundberg 1995, J Acous Soc Am), instrumentation (Danielsen et al. 2019, J Exp Psychol), and genre/stylistic conventions (C?mara & Danielsen 2019, Oxford). Musically trained/stylistically familiar listeners may also display style-typical sensitivity to microrhythmic manipulations (Danielsen et al. 2021 Atten Percept Psychophys; Jakubowski et al. 2022; Cogn). In terms of subjective experience, we expect that onset asynchrony exaggerations will likely elicit lower pleasure and movement ratings compared to performances with idiomatic timing profiles (Senn et al. 2018, PLoS One). Higher ratings should also be biased in favor of familiar styles (Senn et al. 2021) and rhythmic patterns that do not engender excessive metrical ambiguity are likely to elicit higher ratings (Spiech et al. 2022, preprint; Witek et al. 2014, PLoS One).
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Danielsen, Anne; Br?vig, Ragnhild; C?mara, Guilherme Schmidt; Haugen, Mari Romarheim; Johansson, Mats Sigvard & London, Justin
(2023).
There’s more to timing than time: Investigating sound–timing interaction across disciplines and cultures
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2023).
Sounding Same/Sounding Other:
Creative, practical and aesthetic aspects of ad libs and ‘backtracks’ in rap
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2023).
'Them bars really ain't hittin' like a play fight' : Analysing weak alternative lineations and ambiguous lineation in relation to metrical structure in rap flows.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
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Weak Alternatives …and their presence making shit dope.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2023).
Project: Chimera
Postdoctoral project – overview, examples, loose thoughts. HHRIG meeting presentation
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2023).
On Analysing Hip-Hop/Rap : Doing Hip-Hop Scholarship in a hip-hop way
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2023).
Flow, layering and rupture in composite auditory streams.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2023).
A Norwegian emcee/scholar – Theorizing rap flow from the outside and inside
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Danielsen, Anne
(2023).
Beat bins, asynchronies and muddy sounds: Shaping micro-time in grooves.
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In musical genres such as neo-soul and hip-hop, beats often have a temporal shape that makes their placement in time difficult to locate relative to a single point in time. This is often due to ?muddy?, processed sounds or asynchronies between events at beat-related metric positions. The beat bin theory suggests that the perceptual counterpart to such beat asynchronies or muddy beat shapes in a sounding groove is an internal (perceptual) reference structure of beat bins of considerable ‘width’ and a distinctive ‘shape’. I will start by pre- senting the theory and then focus on how various acoustic factors influence the beat bin, using examples from computer-based musical grooves. Ultimately, I argue that micro-level perception of, and synchronization to, sound is opti- mized for the task at hand, in line with the flexibility and dynamic nature of the human apparatus in perceiving, predicting, and processing rhythm.
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Spiech, Connor; Hope, Mikael; C?mara, Guilherme Schmidt; Sioros, Georgios; Endestad, Tor & Laeng, Bruno
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(2022).
PredicTAPbility: Sensorimotor Synchronization Increases Groove.
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Danielsen, Anne
(2022).
Bidrag til enquete om rock.
I Karlsen, Ole & Markussen, Bjarne (Red.),
Sanglyrikk. Teori - Metode - Sjangrer.
Scandinavian Academic Press.
ISSN 978-82-304-0342-6.
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Lyrikken er den mest popul?re og utbredte av alle diktarter – vel ? merke sanglyrikken, den som fremf?res til musikk og formidles gjennom radio, grammofonplater, CD-er og str?mmetjenester. Den omgir oss til daglig og er samtidig den eldste formen for lyrikk vi kjenner til. I det gamle Hellas ble diktene fremsagt til lyrespill.
Til tross for dette har sanglyrikken v?rt mindre utforsket enn skriftlyrikken, og det har skortet p? teoretiske og metodiske perspektiver. Det s?ker denne boka ? r?de bot p?. Her diskuteres f?rst de grunnleggende likheter og forskjeller mellom skrift- og sanglyrikk, mellom ?ye- og ?rekunst. Videre dr?ftes metodiske innfallsvinkler til studiet av sanglyrikk, med tanke p? samspillet mellom ord og musikk. Deretter gj?r boka rede for en rekke kjente sanglyriske sjangrer: ballader, skillingsviser, salmer, joik, viser, blues, rock, indie-folk og rap.
Boka er den f?rste i sitt slag i Norge. Den er s?rlig rettet mot forskere og studenter i h?yere utdanning, og l?rere som vil arbeide med sanglyrikk i skoleverket. Men alle som interesserer seg for sanglyrikkens sjangrer, vil finne noe ? glede seg over her.
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Sandvik, Bj?rnar Ersland
(2022).
Sample, Slice, Stretch! Four Innovative Moments in the History of Waveform Representation.
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B?hler, Kjetil Klette
(2022).
Groove Politics: Pleasure and Participation in Cuban Dance Music.
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This paper develops the concept of groove politics to investigate how the rhythmic qualities of shared musical experiences influence participatory democracy. Groove Politics is grounded in an analysis of listening and draws on recent studies on how music grooves, creates pleasure, and produces affective communities. Groove Politics understands musical sounds as complex signs that operate thanks to an interplay between rhythm, melody, harmony, lyrics, and local cultural meanings in which political expressions gain affective force as they bring people together. I apply this lens to performances of the Cuban band Interactivo and their musical dialogues with political and cultural changes in Cuba over the last two decades. Interactivo has been among the most innovative, controversial, and popular bands in the country of late thanks to their unique mixture of timba, rumba, jazz, funk, trova, hip-hop and world music. The study illuminates how Interactivo’s grooves both nurture and contest people’s sense of revolutionary values thanks to particular organizations of musical sound.
While existing scholarship on the politics of music elaborates upon the ways in which music is “articulated,” “mediated,” or “embedded” in larger political contexts and discourses, few studies have shown how music shapes political experience. Groove Politics fills this lacuna by taking seriously music’s ability to move us and create affective communities of political expression. The paper questions the established truism within popular music studies that the political meaning of music cannot be found in “the music itself”. Instead, Groove Politics takes its cue from John Street’s remark that what is lacking in existing scholarship is a “musical theory of politics [that takes seriously] the political possibilities inherent in pleasure”. Conceptually, Groove Politics builds on arguments within political theory by Arendt and Rancière that underscore the importance of aesthetics in politics coupled with research on how music grooves. It uses this frame to study how grooves redefine community and political discourse. The paper adds to existing musicological scholarship on popular music by drawing attention to how music moves us politically and aesthetically, coupled with analysis of the artistic and ethical judgements that give rise to and result from such practices.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2022).
Skreiv bok om H?ge Brelle.
[Avis].
M?re.
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Lartillot, Olivier; Elovsson, Anders; Johansson, Mats Sigvard; Thedens, Hans-Hinrich & Monstad, Lars Alfred L?berg
(2022).
Segmentation, Transcription, Analysis and Visualisation of the Norwegian Folk Music Archive.
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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 technology and computer musicology tools. We focus in particular on a major highlight of this collection: Hardanger fiddle music. The studied corpus was available as a series of 600 tape recordings, each tape containing up to 2 hours of recordings, associated with metadata indicating approximate positions of pieces of music. We first need to retrieve the individual recording associated with each tune, through the combination of an automated pre-segmentation based on sound classification and audio analysis, and a subsequent manual verification and fine-tuning of the temporal positions, using a home-made user interface.
Note detection is carried out by a deep learning method. To adapt the model to Hardanger fiddle music, musicians were asked to record themselves and annotate all played note, using a dedicated interface. Data augmentation techniques have been designed to accelerate the process, in particular using alignment of varied performances of same tunes. The transcription also requires the reconstruction of the metrical structure, which is particularly challenging in this style of music. We have also collected ground-truth data, and are conceiving a computational model.
The next step consists in carrying out detailed music analysis of the transcriptions, in order to reveal in particular intertextuality within the corpus. A last direction of research is aimed at designing tools to visualise each tune and the whole catalogue, both for musicologists and general public.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2022).
Hva gir hiphop flow? En norsk forsker mener han har funnet svaret.
[Avis].
Morgenbladet.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2022).
Intervju om rap flows - Studio 2, NRK P2.
[Radio].
NRK P2.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2022).
Rap music’s black cultural heritage: How does “pushing the limits” of dopeness relate to hip hop values of excellence and/as badness?
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2022).
Public defense: Kjell Andreas Oddekalv.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2022).
KARPE KARPE KARPE - Aftenposten Forklart.
[Internett].
Aftenposten Forklart Podcast.
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Leske, Sabine Liliana
(2022).
Inter-Trial Coherence (ITC).
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An introduction to the inter-trial coherence measure (ITC) and how it is applied to EEG data (with example code/scripts in MATLAB). Furthermore caveats of the measure are discussed along with it's relation to phase opposition measures.
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Leske, Sabine Liliana
(2022).
Phase Amplitude Coupling (PAC).
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An introduction to the Phase Amplitude Coupling (PAC) measure and how it is applied to EEG data (example code in MATLAB). The caveats of the measure are covered and which sanity checks might be necessary.
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Leske, Sabine Liliana
(2022).
Fourier Transform.
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An introduction to the Fourier transform and how it is applied to EEG data. The short time fourier transform (STFT) and different measures (phase and amplitude) derived from it are explained.
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Sandvik, Bj?rnar Ersland
(2022).
Lydens utseende: Fra usynlig til gjenkjennelig p? skjermer vi alle g?r rundt med.
Musikkmagasinet Ballade.
ISSN 0805-5041.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas; Gudnason, Runar & Opsvik, Olav
(2022).
H?ge Brelle – Runar Gudnason, Kjell Andreas Oddekalv og louilexus.
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Danielsen, Anne
(2022).
Rhythm, Time, and Presence.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2022).
Categorical perception and quantisation in hip-hop practice and discourse.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2022).
Intervju om musikkrettigheiter - NRK Nyhetsmorgen.
[TV].
NRK.
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Br?vig-Hanssen, Ragnhild; Johansson, Mats Sigvard; Sandvik, Bj?rnar; Jacobsen, Eirik; Aareskjold-Drecker, Jon Marius & Danielsen, Anne
(2022).
Musical rhythm. Qualitative investigations.
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Danielsen, Anne & Leske, Sabine Liliana
(2022).
How the brain tracks the precision of a beat bin - musical, behavioral and neurophysiological perspectives.
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The internal beat or pulse in the listener is not a single point in time, but has a shape and a width and can be described via a probability distribution. This phenomenon has been conceptualized in the beat bin thoery (Danielsen 2010). The internal beat bin of the listener varies systematically with the precision needed in the given musical or sonic context. Anne and Sabine will present behavioral evidence for this phenomenon and a first attempt to reveal the underlying neural mechanism behind the flexible adaptation to the precision of the current beat bin context. They will present effects of acoustic factors on the perceptual center and the beat bin, as well as preliminary results on how neural oscillatory activity might represent a neural mechanism behind this phenomenon.
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Danielsen, Anne
(2022).
Rytme, groove og digitale signaturer.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2022).
Rap as composite auditory streams: Techniques and approaches for chimericity through layered vocal production in hip-hop, and their aesthetic implications.
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Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2022).
On Being a White Norwegian Analysing Rap.
Dansk Musikforskning Online.
ISSN 1904-237X.
DMO Special Issue 2022,
s. 115–122.
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Sioros, George
(2021).
Groove, meter and syncopation: a cognitive perspective. .
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Solbakk, Anne-Kristin; Leske, Sabine Liliana; Lubell, James Isaac; Blenkmann, Alejandro Omar; Llorens, Anais & Funderud, Ingrid
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(2021).
Auditory prediction and prediction error in self-generated tones.
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Br?vig-Hanssen, Ragnhild
(2021).
Rhythm, Repetition, and Expectations.
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Br?vig-Hanssen, Ragnhild; Sandvik, Bj?rnar & Aareskjold-Drecker, Jon Marius
(2021).
Slow Attacks, Peculiar Accents, and Pumping Grooves: Perceptual Interaction between Timing and Intensity in Music Production.
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Danielsen, Anne; Stover, Chris & Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas
(2022).
What Makes the Shit Dope? The Techniques and Analysis of Rap Flows.
Universitetet i Oslo.