![]() Is there anything else in the EDM world that you would like to study? Also, I found very little details about how people moved and felt and few descriptions about specific production techniques in EDM, so therefore I decided to focus my research on trying to answer these questions. However, what I found was that the studies and literature mainly focused on the use of drugs as the explanatory factor as to why people had intense experiences with this style of music. ![]() When I started my studies in musicology I really wanted to learn more about EDM from an academic approach. Furthermore, the tracks should include some typical EDM characteristics, such as tempo between 120-130 bpm, four-to-the-floor beat, no complete vocal line and that the musical layers are introduced, changed and removed after two, four, eight, sixteen or thirty-two bars.īy Jason Heffler What made you choose EDM as the focus of your research?įor many years I have enjoyed EDM and found it fascinating how this music style can provide people with intense experiences when they listen and dance to it. I decided to limit the investigation to house and various house genres and tracks that were released quite recently, but were not especially familiar. When using real music in experiments, you always have to test if your participants are familiar with the music because that will influence how they perceive it - either in a positive or negative way - and then you cannot really say if it is the specific musical features that trigger a response or other mechanisms such as for instance personal taste or nostalgia. ![]() ![]() Therefore I ended up with pre-recording a short DJ mix consisting of four tracks, where two of the tracks had breakdown, build-up and drop, and two tracks without such musical passages and relatively little development to have a control to which break routine tracks could be compared. One of my main research interests is to see how people respond to tracks with breakdown, build-up and drop, which we have decided to call the break routine. The experiment is one of the first to use body movements as a way to measure peak pleasurable experiences.Ĭan you describe how you chose the songs for the study?Ĭhoosing the tracks for the study was also quite challenging. Furthermore, it describes the close and mutual relationship between how we move and how we feel when hearing EDM when we find the music especially pleasurable we move more - and when we move more we find the music especially pleasurable. ![]() The study looks at how people move to EDM when they are dancing together with others, and how we get influenced by what happens in the music and also by the people surrounding us. But have you ever wondered why that happens? Luckily for us, we have the answer! Ragnhild Torvanger Solberg from the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway, shared with us her research on electronic dance music and how we move to it! How would you describe your study to those of us without extensive scientific knowledge? It's very easy to let the music move you, and just enjoy the ride. I'm sure everyone can remember a time where you were completely lost in the music. ![]()
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