Rhythmic Density Affects Listeners' Emotional Response to Microtiming.

ABSTRACT: Microtiming has been assumed to be vital for the experience of groove, but past research presented conflicting results: some studies found that microtiming is irrelevant for groove, others reported that microtiming has a detrimental effect on the groove experience, yet others described circumstances under which microtiming has no negative impact on groove. The three studies in this paper aim at explaining some of these discrepancies by clarifying to what extent listeners' emotional responses to microtiming depend on the distribution of microtiming deviations across instrumental parts (voicing) or other moderating factors like tempo or rhythmic density. The studies use data from two listening experiments involving expert bass and drums duo recordings in swing and funk style. - Study A inves

SUBMITTER: Senn O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5643849 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature