Featured talks/presentations
Trial lecture and public defense (manuscript)
(Trial lecture topic: Rap music’s black cultural heritage: How does “pushing the limits” of dopeness relate to hip hop values of excellence and/as badness?)
Neste Planet - how two artists stand firmly in two separate worlds simultaneously
(Video paper at IASPM XXI 2022) (Abstract)
Metre meets metre – how do we hear, analyse and listen to rap flows?
(Asynchronous paper at conference "London Calling" - IASPM UK/Eire 2020)
Surrender to the flow - rhyme as the defining structural element in rap
(Presentation at conference "Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Song and Art" - Helsinki, Finland 2019)
The urge to "clean up" the rap
(Presentation on microtiming in rap at the Art of Record Production 2019 conference - Boston, MA)