Abstract:
Mechanical metronomes, unless they are broken, can only provide a steady pulse. While there are now electronic and software-based metronomes that can produce metric accents and/or subdivisions, they are also isochronous time keepers. There are, however, many musical genres which feature periodic, but asymmetrical beat patterns, such as Norwegian Springar, Balkan Aslak, and Mande dance music. Similarly, there are performance styles with expressive timing, swung rhythms and other non-isochronous microhythmic events. I have designed the web-based AsymMetronome for sonifying these types of asymmetric and non-isochronous rhythmic patterns.
In this Food and Paper, I will demonstrate the use of the AsymMetronome and present a variety of potential pedagogical and scholarly applications.
Bring your phone. This will be an interactive session.
Bio:
Dr. David L?berg Code is a Professor of Music Technology and Theory at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI, USA) where he also has served as Associate Director. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and visiting researcher at the University of Oslo in Norway and the Norwegian Network for Technology, Music and Art (NOTAM); and has taught previously at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and at the University of Maryland. Code's research interests include alternative tuning and metric systems, live interactive performance with computers, musical cryptography, and interdisciplinary topics such as music and feminist pedagogy and world music. He is the founder and director of KLOrk, the Kalamazoo Laptop Orchestra, and developer of the Groven Piano, a 36-tone interactive piano network which received its premieres in Oslo, Norway and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival (USA).