Interview with Researcher and project lead Olivier Lartillot, who has been making sense of music recordings with computers and succeeding to an interesting degree.
RITMO Research Stuff podcast
Podcast title card
RITMO Research Stuff is a short series of casual, personable conversations with researchers at RITMO, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo. Each researcher reflects on how they came to research, what they have learned, and what they hope to answer yet. Recorded in 2024 and 2026.
RITMO Research Stuff Interview with Researcher Guilherme Schmidt Câmara, who has been deconstructing groove microtiming, how musicians make it and how listeners hear it as part of the Time project and beyond.
Interview with Laura Bishop, a researcher studying on musical togetherness and ensemble coordination in classical chamber music and beyond.
Interview with postdoctoral fellow Kjell Andreas Oddekalv on bending music theory, microtiming, and production analysis for rap research.
Interview with PhD candidate Hugh Alexander von Arnim on capturing human motion in musical contexts.
Interview with researcher Alejandro Omar Blenkman on auditory prediction in the brain, how it works and how to capture it through electrophysiology.
Host
Finn Upham is a researcher at RITMO and formerly the producer of the So Strangely Podcast. They study physiological signals such as respiration and cardiac activity and body motion in performers and audience members during live music events such as orchestra concerts, kpop shows, and line dancing lessons.
Producer
Maham Riaz holds a PhD in Music Tech. She has a background in music production and audiovisual media, and has worked with film, animation, games, and interactive installations. If she could live in a studio, she would.