Accuracy of Tempo Judgments in Disk Jockeys Compared to Musicians and Untrained Individuals.

ABSTRACT: Professional disk jockeys (DJs) are an under-studied population whose performance involves creating new musical experiences by combining existing musical materials with a high level of temporal precision. In contemporary electronic dance music, these materials have a stable tempo and are composed with the expectation for further transformation during performance by a DJ for the audience of dancers. Thus, a fundamental aspect of DJ performance is synchronizing the tempo and phase of multiple pieces of music, so that over seconds or even minutes, they may be layered and transitioned without disrupting the rhythmic pulse. This has been accomplished traditionally by manipulating the speed of individual music pieces "by ear," without additional technological synchronization aids. However, the c

SUBMITTER: Foster NEV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8525396 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature