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DESCRIPTION:The Doctoral Colloquium is open to all.\n\nDoctoral Colloquium:
  Ralf von Appen\, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna\, & David
  Carter\, Loyola Marymount University\n\nFind out more about attending eve
 nts at Schulich\n\n\nTitle: A Different Drummer: The Rise of Metronomic Re
 gularity in Popular Music\, 1965-2020\n\n \n\nAbstract:\n\nDrummers have o
 stensibly been threatened with extinction since drum machines and click tr
 acks made their way into mainstream popular music in the 1970s. These impl
 ements became commonly-used tools in the 1980s and 90s\, until by the mid-
 90s it was much more common for pop hits to use a drum machine or sampler 
 rather than a live drummer. Drum programming moved “into the box” around t
 he turn of the century\, reducing the amount of hardware but also further 
 reducing human players’ role. In recent years\, innovations in AI as well 
 as the pandemic have exacerbated the challenges facing professional drumme
 rs. The prevalence of drum sequencing in today’s studio recordings has put
  drummers at risk of becoming cosmetic accessories in live performance\, m
 iming playing while contributing little to the audible result.\n\nIn order
  to precisely trace the rise of the technologically-based metronomic regul
 arity that has profoundly challenged the profession and changed the aesthe
 tics of popular music\, we undertook a corpus study of hits from the 1960s
  to today. Our research uses software like Sonic Visualiser\, Logic\, and 
 Melodyne to examine tempo variability and microtiming in 120 songs in the 
 Billboard year-end pop charts. We complement this survey with systematic e
 xamination of drummer credits in chart-topping songs over time and in stat
 istics reflecting the decreasing numbers of drummers and drum kits sold. I
 nterviews we have conducted with professional drummers provide further per
 spective on the changes to the profession and on the economic\, social\, a
 nd creative challenges facing these musicians.\n\nWe show how objectively 
 measuring the amount of tempo steadiness of the top 10 songs from each yea
 r of the year-end Billboard charts reveals the gradual shift from the late
  1960s to today towards metronomic regularity in popular music\, with the 
 songs that defy this trend tending to be throwbacks in other respects as w
 ell. Study of microtiming in songs shows how the common microtiming irregu
 larities of early 1970s drumming gradually became less common\, with attac
 ks occurring more and more precisely on the beat. Our findings delineate t
 he changed musical environment in which drummers have found themselves in 
 recent decades.\n\nBiographies: \n\nRalf von Appen is Professor for Theory
  and History of Popular Music at the University for Music and Performing A
 rts in Vienna\, Austria. He has published widely about the history\, psych
 ology\, aesthetics and analysis of popular music and has co-edited the col
 lection Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music with Allan Moore\, A
 ndré Doehring and Dietrich Helms. Ralf was chair of the German Society for
  Popular Music Studies from 2008-2020 and is editor of the German book ser
 ies Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung.\n\nDavid S. Carter is a music theo
 rist and composer based in Los Angeles\, where he is an Assistant Professo
 r of Music at Loyola Marymount University. He earned his doctorate in musi
 c composition at Northwestern University and J.D. at the University of Sou
 thern California. He has published popular music analysis in Music Theory 
 Online and has presented papers at the Society for Music Theory annual mee
 ting as well as at the International Association for the Study of Popular 
 Music international and U.S. conferences. As a composer\, he won the Iron 
 Composer competition at Baldwin Wallace University\, Northwestern Universi
 ty’s William T. Faricy Award\, and second prize in the Rhenen Internationa
 l Carillon Composition Competition. Examples of his compositional work can
  be found at davidcartercomposer.com and soundcloud.com/davidscarter.\n
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LOCATION:A-832\, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 
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SUMMARY:Doctoral Colloquium (Music) | Ralf von Appen & David Carter
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