Entrainment workshop

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    Around one hundred participants were physically present in Oslo, and several hundred people followed the workshop on Zoom and YouTube.

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    The general chair, doctoral research fellow Dana Swarbrick, welcomed the participants and introduced the workshop's content.

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    After many years of online activities, many participants enjoyed being physically together in the same room.

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    The workshop was run as a hybrid event, streaming all presentations on YouTube. Two of RITMO's research assistants, Jack Hardwick and Hugh von Arnim, were in charge of the production.

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    The first keynote lecture was "Understanding neural entrainment using noninvasive brain stimulation". It was held by Molly Henry, a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto.

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    Professor Martin Clayton, Durham University, held the second keynote lecture, "Entrainment in natural musical performances".

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    Vinícius Rezende Carvalho and Maja Foldal check their presentations before a session on neural entrainment.

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    The workshop drew a highly multidisciplinary group of participants, leading to exciting discussions across musicology, psychology, neuroscience, informatics, and others.

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    RITMO's research adviser Marit Johanne Furunes kept track of all participants.

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    RITMO's head of administration, Pia S?ndergaard, is checking the schedule to plan for an afternoon "fika".

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    The participants enjoyed Oslo's nice late-summer weather during the breaks.

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    The workshop was run with two tracks, one primarily physical in the lecture hall (with streaming) and the other primarily online, with some local participants in a meeting room.

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    How do different disciplines think about entrainment? Dana Swarbrick chaired a lively cross-disciplinary discussion with (from left) Caroline Palmer, Peter Keller, Martin Clayton, Petri Toiviainen, and Molly Henry.

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    ERASMUS master's student Timothé Rivier demonstrates a hexapod robot that uses entrainment to synchronize its motion to sound. The robot was developed together with Marguerite Miallier as part of a summer internship at RITMO.

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    Research fellow Bálint Laczko enjoys a quiet moment during a break in the lecture hall.

  • Mar. 3, 2024

    Dana Swarbrick checks the status with Eirik Slinning Karlsen from the RITMO administration.