IDEA lecture with Anne Danielsen
Timing and Sound in Musical Microrhythm: Theoretical, Aesthetic and Empirical Aspects

Anne Danielsen is Professor of Musicology at the University of Oslo and forthcoming leader of RITMO Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo. She has published widely on rhythm and groove in post-war African-American popular music and is the author of Presence and Pleasure: The Funk Grooves of James Brown and Parliament (Wesleyan, 2006), Digital Signatures: The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound (co-authored with Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen, MIT Press, 2016), and the editor of the collected volume Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Ashgate/Routledge, 2010). She is currently running a five-year multidisciplinary research project entitled Timing and Sound in Musical Microrhythm, funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN).

Prof Danielsen at Oslo University
http://www.hf.uio.no/imv/english/people/aca/anneda/index.html

Please note that the talk will be held in English.

The IDEA Lectures (Interdisciplinary Debates on the Empirical Aesthetics of Music) aim at bringing together internationally well-known researchers who discuss questions that relate to the production and reception of music from various perspectives. Musicologists from all branches of their discipline take part as do musicians, psychologists, cognitive scientists, sociologists, philosophers and ethnologists.

External guests are welcome.

Please call for registration 069 8300 479-201.