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Atilla Vrasdonk YouTube video by UniOslo_RITMO

What happens in the body and brain when we improvise?🧠
PhD fellow Atilla Vrasdonk studies flamenco artists and jazz musicians to understand the behavior and cognition of creativity and improvisation💃

Annual Report 2025 - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion RITMO is now entering its last phase. Many doctoral and postdoctoral fellows are approaching the end of their projects, so there are many analyses to complete, datasets to prepare for archiving, and m...

RITMO's annual report is out! Have a look at what we did in 2025 🥳

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in AI Methods for Creative Applications (291829) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in AI Methods for Creative Applications (291829), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Still some time to apply for our MishMash postdoc position "AI Methods for Creative Applications" with deadline 1 March.

Also check out the 13 other postings for PhD / postdoc at mishmash.no !

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Deadline approaching soon: 28 February!! A postdoctoral research fellowship on gesture-vocalization interactions in three vocal performance traditions, based at the University of Oslo. If you have any questions about the position, please get in touch!

Public defence: How We Make Sense of the Unknown - Department of Musicology Master Martin Peter Pleiss will defend his dissertation, Towards a Phenomenology of Novelty: Perceiving and Engaging with Virtual Reality, for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Martin Pleiß will have his disputation this Friday, February 13, starting with trial lecture at 13:15 CET, followed by public defence at 14:30. Read more about it here:
www.hf.uio.no/imv/english/...

Where Humans Outshine AI: “There is something quietly hopeful in these findings” - Research News Humans are remarkably well equipped to meet the unknown – and not just because of our brains, new research suggests.

When we encounter something completely unfamiliar, our bodies know what to do before our minds catch up!🏃🧠

Read about Martin Pleiß' research here:

www.uio.no/english/rese...

📢 Calling all musicology students!

The abstract deadline for #SysMus26 at Durham University is Jan 31! 🗓️

📍 Durham, UK + Online (Hybrid) 📅 22–24 July 2026 💰 Limited travel funding available for unwaged presenters!

Submit your abstract here: musicscience.net/events/sysmu...

#SysMus #AcademicSky

How to think about culture in psychology and neuroscience? What about seeing it as a source and product of perceptual plasticity? Such an inspiring journey to co-write this paper with R Polak, A Danielsen, N Jacoby, L Pearson, S Horlor, S Aubinet, J London.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Feedback welcome!

Public defence: Olgerta Asko - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Master Olgerta Asko at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, is defending the thesis Predictive processing in human prefrontal cortex: Causal contributions of orbitofrontal and lat...

Join Olgerta Asko's public defence today at 10:15 CET!
In Forsamlingssalen, and streaming on YouTube:
www.uio.no/ritmo/englis...
@olgasko.bsky.social

Public defence: Olgerta Asko - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Master Olgerta Asko at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, is defending the thesis Predictive processing in human prefrontal cortex: Causal contributions of orbitofrontal and lat...

Olgerta Asko will have her disputation this Friday, January 9, starting with trial lecture at 10:15 CET, followed by public defence at 12:15.
Read more about it here:
www.uio.no/ritmo/englis...

Why You Should Welcome Life's Surprises with Gratitude - Research News Each time you have an experience that defies your expectations, your brain becomes slightly more fine-tuned.

Perhaps you should start the new year with welcoming life's surprises?🤔
Your brain becomes slightly more fine-tuned every time you have an experience that defies your expectations!🧠
Read about @olgasko.bsky.social's research here:
www.uio.no/english/rese...

Skal forske på hvorfor musikk gjør at vi får lyst til å bevege oss - Det humanistiske fakultet Guilherme Schmidt Câmara er tildelt ti millioner kroner for å undersøke hvorfor bestemte kombinasjoner av rytmer oppleves kroppslig og sosialt samlende.

Huge congratulations to Guilherme Câmara, who has received funding from the Research Council of Norway for his project “GROOVE: Mapping, Modeling, and Perceiving the Combinatorics of Groove-Based Rhythms”! 🥳
Read about it here (Norwegian):
www.hf.uio.no/om/aktuelt/a...

📅Application deadline: February 28, 2026

Postdoctoral research fellowship in the computational analysis of gesture-vocalization interactions (289576) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral research fellowship in the computational analysis of gesture-vocalization interactions (289576), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, February 28, 2026

📣We have a 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 in the computational analysis of gesture-vocalization interactions. The position is connected to our new project 𝘊𝘰-𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 (𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘎𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦) led by Research Professor Lara Pearson

The Co‐Structuring of Gesture‐Vocal Dynamics: An Exploration in Karnatak Music Performance In music performance contexts, vocalists tend to gesture with hand and upper body movements as they sing. But how does this gesturing relate to the sung phrases, and how do singers’ gesturing styles ...

Just published, the co-structuring of gesture-vocal dynamics in vocal performance, with @wimpouw.bsky.social
and Thomas Nuttall. Which dimensions of hand and head gestures co-structure with which vocal modalities, and how does this differ across individuals? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Concert: Quantum Loops, Broken Symmetries YouTube video by UniOslo_RITMO

The concert "Quantum Loops, Broken Symmetries" is now at 18:00 CET, which will be streamed on YouTube from Salen, ZEB, UiO. The program includes explorations into violins, self-playing pianos, AI and quantum computing with Eduardo Reck Miranda and Victoria Johnson.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Panr...

Remember today's Seminar Series with Prof. Renee Timmers at 13:15 CET!

Multimodality and Embodiment of Timing and Tempo - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

Our next RITMO Seminar Series is Tuesday next week!🥳
Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will give a talk titled "Multimodality and Embodiment of Timing and Tempo".
Read more here:
www.uio.no/ritmo/englis...

Starting at 13:15 CEST today!

Embodied Dynamics of Metre Perception - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Professor of Music at the University of Jyväskylä, Petri Toiviainen, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

Our next RITMO Seminar Series is Tuesday next week!😁
Professor of Music at the University of Jyväskylä, Petri Toiviainen @ptoiviai.bsky.social, will give a talk titled "Embodied Dynamics of Metre Perception".
Read more here:

Public defence: Ṭarab and AI: Maqām Music Generation through Machine Translation and Motion Capture - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Master Fadi al-Ghawanmeh at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Ṭarab and AI: Maqām Music Generation through Machine Translation and Motion Capture for the degree of philosophiae...

Fadi al-Ghawanmeh will publicly defend his dissertation "Ṭarab and AI: Maqām Music Generation through Machine Translation and Motion Capture" on Thursday September 25.
The defence is streamed on Zoom, link will be available on this website.

Dare to Listen - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Maham Riaz is a doctoral research fellow at RITMO whose work bridges music and technology.

Have you tried to just... listen?
PhD candidate Maham Riaz writes about listening to our surroundings in our latest blog post!

Workshop: Body-Controlled Music Making - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Welcome to a workshop with Kristin Norderval and Nick Wishart, who will present new electronic instruments controlled with the body.

Thursday, 11 September, we are excited about hosting a workshop with two renowned international artists, Kristin Norderval and Nick Wishart. Through hands-on sessions with EVII and Round Sounds, participants get to experience body-based music control and discuss the future of musicking technologies.

Anne-Sophie Mutter on Music, Wellbeing, and Women in Performance - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion World-renowned violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter talks with music researcher Sara D’Amario about the challenges and joys of life as a professional musician.

If you’re curious about how one of the world’s greatest musicians reflects on gender dynamics in classical music, the importance of mentorship, physical and mental resilience, and her personal philosophy for wellbeing, you can read the full interview with Mrs. Anne-Sophie Mutter here:

Workshop on Women Musicians Wellbeing - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Welcome to a workshop on the wellbeing of women music performers.

Welcome to a workshop on the wellbeing of women music performers!
Today at 13:00 CEST.
Read more about it and find the YouTube stream here:
www.uio.no/ritmo/englis...

Predictive encoding of auditory sequences in the human prefrontal cortex Humans extract regularities from the environment to form expectations that guide perception and optimize behavior. Although the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is central to this process, the relative contrib...

🤔How does the human brain predict unexpected sounds?
Our new study shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t work as a single unit. Instead, the orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex make distinct, time-sensitive contributions. #iEEG #BrainLesion #OFC #LPFC
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Public defence: Heidi Marie Umbach Hansen YouTube video by UniOslo_RITMO

Watch it on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkQ-...

Public defence: Heidi Marie Umbach Hansen - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Master Heidi Marie Umbach Hansen at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, is defending the thesis Musical sensibility and motivations for music use: A twin study of the underlying ...

Heidi's disputation starts in about 45 minutes, 10:15 CEST!
www.uio.no/ritmo/englis...

Public defence: Heidi Marie Umbach Hansen - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Master Heidi Marie Umbach Hansen at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, is defending the thesis Musical sensibility and motivations for music use: A twin study of the underlying ...

PS!
Heidi's defence is this Friday!
www.uio.no/ritmo/englis...

Are you strongly moved by music? - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Then there is a good chance that you are also open, compassionate, and sensitive, according to new research.

Are you strongly moved by music?🥹🎶
Then you might also be open, compassionate, and sensitive!🤗
Read about RITMO PhD fellow Heidi's research:
www.uio.no/ritmo/englis...