Carl Haakon Waadeland

It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing - Simulating Expressive Timing by Modulated Movements*

A new application of the well known process of frequency modulation, as formerly applied to syntheses of sound, is shown to be a remarkable tool in making syntheses of rhythmic expression in music. Applying a technique of rhythmic frequency modulation, we are able to make simulations of various rhythmic “deviations” typical of live performances of music, by means of continuous movement curves “interacting” with each other. A theoretical interpretation offered by our model is to view expressive timing as a result of rhythmic structure being “stretched” and “compressed” by actions of movements.

Corrigendum to "Action expertise reduces brain activity for audiovisual matching actions An fMRI study with expert drummers" [NeuroImage 56/3 (2011) 1480-1492]

a Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK b Department of Media Technology, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark c Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Amsterdam, The Netherlands d Department of Art and Industrial Design, IUAV University of Venice, Venice, Italy e Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway f Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy g Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA