Kjell Andreas Oddekalv

• Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas (2024). Lyrisk brunst: Rapanalysens form, m?l og form?l. In Fj?gesund, Peter; Nordstoga, Sveinung & Baklid, Herleik (Ed.), Songen og teksten. Fr? Draumkvedet til Dimmu Borgir. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788283901634. p. 277¨C295.

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• Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas; Bj?rkheim, Terje; Ugstad, Magnus; Walderhaug, Bendik; Hole, Erik & S?rli, Anders Ruud (2025). Sinsenfist p? ROSA-konferansen 2025.
• Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas; Walderhaug, Bendik; Bj?rkheim, Terje; Ugstad, Magnus; S?rli, Anders Ruud & Hole, Erik (2025). Sinsenfist p? Bilkollektivets 30-?rs-jubileum.
• Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas; Bj?rkheim, Terje; Hole, Erik; Walderhaug, Bendik; S?rli, Anders Ruud & Ugstad, Magnus (2025). Sinsenfist p? Audunbakken 2025.
• Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas; Walderhaug, Bendik; Hole, Erik; Bj?rkheim, Terje; Ugstad, Magnus & S?rli, Anders Ruud (2025). Sinsenfist p? Festival Bohem 2025.
• Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas (2025). Manifesting the Rapping Chimera. Show summary

  In Albert Bregman¡¯s Auditory Scene Analysis, he describes ¡°chimeric percepts¡± ¨C auditory streams we hear as ¡°one¡±, which in reality originates from multiple different sound sources. In music, however, this apparent failure of our perceptual system is treated as a feature rather than a bug. In hip-hop music, there has been a tradition of emphasising key words and syllables either live ¨C via ¡°hypepersons¡± doubling the lead vocalist, or in the studio ¨C by stacking vocal tracks in various ways. These doublings ¨C the chimericity, or degree to which a stream is perceived as one or many ¨C can be transparent or opaque to the listener, and is yet another manipulable parameter for aesthetic effects in the modern producer¡¯s arsenal. In this presentation, different techniques and approaches of summoning and taming the rapping chimera will be showcased through an original track produced and recorded especially for AR@K. What is the truth of the chimera? Is it one beast or an amalgamation of multiple? Or is it really both, and is that the creature¡¯s very reason to exist?

• Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas (2025). Chimericity in the Orchestration of Rap Vocals. Show summary

  In hip-hop music, the layering and sequencing of vocal tracks is an integral part of the compositional process. Ranging from simple ¡°backtracks¡± adding subtle emphasis to key words and syllables to intricate interplay between emcees and/or effects-processed supernatural simulacra ¨C these techniques can be understood, differentiated between and recreated using the conceptual framework of chimericity. Albert Bregman describes chimeric percepts as an error in our auditory scene analysis ¨C a failing to identify that a sound originates with multiple sources rather than a singular one. He also notes that in music such chimeric passages are considered a feature rather than a bug. Nowhere is this as evident as in hip-hop music. This paper will introduce the concept of chimericity. How it can be more or less transparent or opaque. How it can be layered and/or sequential (vertical/horizontal). How it can be influenced via mode and voice. How it relates to central aspects of Black American aesthetics such as Tricia Rose¡¯s (via Artur Jafa) concept of flow, layering and rupture(s) in line, Olly Wilson¡¯s heterogeneous sound ideal and more broadly to Signifyin(g) as theorized by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Eileen Southern urges us to perform and create Black music to understand and analyse it. As analysts we should take inspiration from practitioners¡¯ workflows. Using audio waveforms across multiple tracks in a DAW arrangement/timeline view is one intuitive visualization of chimericity (among others) this paper will showcase.

• Swarbrick, Dana & Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas (2024). LAB.prat: RITMO x Popsenteret Live & Livestreamed Concert with Dana & The Monsters and Conversation with Dr. Dana Swarbrick.
• Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas (2024). ¡°I¡¯m sorry y¡¯all, I often drift ¨C I¡¯m talking gift¡± Microrhythmic analysis of rap ¨C categorization, malleability and structural bothness.
• Oddekalv, Kjell Andreas (2024). Dr. Kjell: Hiphop 40 ?r i Norge.

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