• Dynamic Range Processing’s Influence on Perceived Timing in Electronic Dance Music 

      Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild; Sandvik, Bjørnar Ersland; Aareskjold-Drecker, Jon Marius (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-05)
      In this article, we explore the extent to which dynamic range processing (such as compression and sidechain compression) influences our perception of a sound signal’s temporal placement in music. Because compression reshapes the sound signal’s envelope, scholars have previously noted that certain uses of sidechain compression can produce peculiar rhythmic effects. In this article, we have tried to ...
    • The Organic Grid: Sound and Timing in Electronic Dance Music 

      Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild; Sandvik, Bjørnar; Aareskjold-Drecker, Jon Marius; Danielsen, Anne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-09)
      Researchers have argued that temporal microdeviations from the metric grid, such as those produced by musicians in performance, are crucial to making a musical rhythm groovy and danceable. It is curious, then, that the music currently dominating the dance floor, “electronic dance music” or EDM, is typically characterized by grid-based rhythms. But is such a “mechanistic,” grid-based aesthetic ...