A special focus is directed towards sample-based music, cut-and-paste and glitch aesthetics, and other experimental music expressions. The aim is to explore how we as listeners make meaning out of musical fragmentation and machine rhythms and how these experiences are related to cognitive processes. Other focus areas include the production and reception of complex rhythms; the perceptual violation of expectations when listening to music, and the cognitive restructuring of rhythmic flow; musical samples’ ability to stretch beyond the perceptual "now" to historical narratives and to generate a "changing same" through repetition; and the sociocultural and legal implications of playing with the tangibility of time.
Related research projects:
- MASHED: Mashup Music, Copyright, and Platform Regulation
- Broken Beats
- Time Tinkering: On Grids, Waveforms, and Techniques of Machine Rhythm
- Performing Machine Aesthetics
- Complex Rhythms
- Project: Chimera