What in Music Makes Us Dance? Recent Developments in Groove Scholarship
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Olivier Senn, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Coach House, Green College, UBC
Thursday, March 8, 5-6:30 pmin the series
Transforming Sounds / Altered Selves: How Music Changes in Time, Changes Us, and Changes Our Worlds and UBC Rhythm Research Cluster: Exploring Musical Time -
This talk is co-sponsored by the UBC Rhythm Research Cluster: Exploring Musical Time
Humans love to synchronize body movement with rhythmic music. Dancing, exercising and even ironing a shirt are much more enjoyable when we carry them out to a good tune. Groove research investigates factors that influence our urge to entrain body movement to music. Researchers ask why many of us would rather dance to Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” than to the Beatles’ “Yesterday,” even though we might appreciate both songs equally from an aesthetic point of view. This presentation explores the phenomenon of groove from an empirical perspective by discussing a recent listening experiment in which participants assessed the entrainment qualities of popular music drum patterns.
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When
March 8th, 2018 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Location
Coach House
6201 Cecil Green Park Rd
Green College, UBC
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Canada
6201 Cecil Green Park Rd
Green College, UBC
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Canada