Program
Initial Program
Over three days, there will be 2 keynote lectures from Dr. Anne Danielsen and Dr. Michael Hove, alongside 15 minute presentations (plus 10 min discussion) and 7 minute flash talks (plus 7 min discussion).
Time: 25 - 27 January 2023, 3-9:30 pm CET (9 am-3:30 pm EST; 6-12:30 am PST)
Place: The workshop will take place via Zoom. There will also be a Slack channel to facilitate extended discussions during and after the workshop.
Format: Keynote lectures, presentations (15 min + 10 min discussion), and flash talks (7 min + 7 min discussion)
Program
Please note that there might be some changes in the program presented below.
Keynotes
Anne Danielsen
Anne Danielsen is Professor of Musicology and Director of RITMO Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has published widely on theoretical, aesthetic, cultural and perceptual aspects of rhythm, groove and technology in postwar African-American popular music and is author of Presence and Pleasure: The Funk Grooves of James Brown and Parliament (2006) and Digital Signatures: The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound (with Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen, 2016), and editor of Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction (2010/2016).
Ain’t that a groove! Musicological, philosophical and psychological perspectives on groove
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.
DanielsenKeynote_GrooveWorkshop.pdf
Michael Hove
Michael Hove is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Fitchburg State University and in Spring 2023 the Fulbright Research Chair in Brain, Language, and Music at McGill University. He received a PhD in Psychology from Cornell University and held previous research positions at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, McMaster’s Institute for Music & the Mind, and the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hove’s research uses behavioral, physiological, and cognitive-neuroscience tools to investigate rhythm and timing. His work has examined the neural underpinnings and musical attributes of musical groove, how people move along with the beat, and how rhythmic movement can increase social connection and induce altered states of consciousness. His work appears in journals including Current Biology, Music Perception, NeuroImage, Cerebral Cortex, and PNAS.
Feel the beat: Music, bass, and movement
In this keynote, I will discuss movement to music and musical features associated with body movement. People often move to music with a repetitive rhythm and strong bass. I will reflect on connections between music and movement and present several studies linking body movement and bass. Links between movement and bass appear rooted in physiology (e.g., in auditory encoding and vibrotactile activation) and explain the musical convention for low-pitched instruments to lay down the rhythm. I conclude with applications, such as using bass to improve social cohesion and combat hearing loss.