Jon Marius Aareskjold-Drecker

Jon Marius Aareskjold-Drecker

MishMash role: Work Package Leader · WP1 , WP2 , WP5

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Book chapter

  1. Book chapter, 2026

    LLMs and Custom GPTs as a Tool for Academic Research | 2 | Innovation

    Jon Marius Aareskjold-Drecker ; Hans T. Zeiner-Henriksen

    This study explores the accuracy and usefulness of OpenAI’s large language models (LLMs), particularly focusing on a customized GPT model trained on a specific dataset of musicology research. The research compares the performance of the custom model against the general ChatGPT-4.o model in an academic setting. The customized GPT, tailored to retrieve information from a controlled set of scholarly articles, was tested by a group of musicology experts, including authors whose works were part of the dataset. Results indicate that the custom GPT generally provides more precise and research-based responses compared to the general model. However, issues such as hallucinations, inconsistent performance, and ethical concerns regarding copyright and the use of LLMs in academic work were observed. The study concludes that while customized GPTs can enhance academic research, their use should be approached with caution due to ongoing challenges in accuracy and ethical implications.

  2. Book chapter, 2026

    Hey Siri, Can You Write Me a Chipmunk Soul Track? A Snapshot of AI Tools Currently Used in Music Production

    Jon Marius Aareskjold-Drecker ; Ragnhild Brøvig

    This article provides an overview of current AI-assisted tools used in music composition and production and demonstrate their application through research-based music production. By highlighting the diverse range of applications and levels of automation offered by AI tools, we nuance the discourse focused on AI-generated tracks and challenge the assumption that using AI necessarily equates to cheating. We demonstrate how musicians can harness AI to support their artistry without overshadowing human expression, ensuring that creativity and integrity remain at the forefront

Journal article

  1. Journal article, 2021

    A Grid in Flux: Sound and Timing in Electronic Dance Music

    Open access

    Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen ; Bjørnar Sandvik ; Jon Marius Aareskjold-Drecker ; Anne Danielsen

    Researchers have argued that temporal microdeviations from the metric grid, such as those producedby musicians in performance, are crucial to making a musical rhythm groovy and danceable. It is curious, then, that the music currently dominating the dance floor, “electronic dance music” or EDM, is typically characterized by grid-based rhythms. But is such a “mechanistic,” grid-based aesthetic necessarily devoid of microrhythmic nuance? In this article, we aim to show that the microrhythmic component of an engaging groove involves the manipulation of more than simply the onset locations of rhythmic events—the sonic features fundamentally contribute to shaping the groove as well. In particular, we seek to demonstrate that EDM producers, with their preference for a grid-based microtiming aesthetic, are very sensitive to and adept at manipulating such sonic features for expressive effect. Drawing on interviews with EDM producers, we show that producers are often concerned with both sonic and temporal features, as well as their interactions. We argue that sonic features are crucial to shaping groove and feel at the micro level of rhythm. Moreover, such features also tend to introduce an indirect microtiming aspect to the grid-based aesthetic of EDM through the ways in which they shape timing at the perceptual level.

  2. Journal article, 2021

    A Grid in Flux: Sound and Timing in Electronic Dance Music

    Open access

    Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen ; Bjørnar Sandvik ; Jon Marius Aareskjold-Drecker ; Anne Danielsen

    Researchers have argued that temporal microdeviations from the metric grid, such as those producedby musicians in performance, are crucial to making a musical rhythm groovy and danceable. It is curious, then, that the music currently dominating the dance floor, “electronic dance music” or EDM, is typically characterized by grid-based rhythms. But is such a “mechanistic,” grid-based aesthetic necessarily devoid of microrhythmic nuance? In this article, we aim to show that the microrhythmic component of an engaging groove involves the manipulation of more than simply the onset locations of rhythmic events—the sonic features fundamentally contribute to shaping the groove as well. In particular, we seek to demonstrate that EDM producers, with their preference for a grid-based microtiming aesthetic, are very sensitive to and adept at manipulating such sonic features for expressive effect. Drawing on interviews with EDM producers, we show that producers are often concerned with both sonic and temporal features, as well as their interactions. We argue that sonic features are crucial to shaping groove and feel at the micro level of rhythm. Moreover, such features also tend to introduce an indirect microtiming aspect to the grid-based aesthetic of EDM through the ways in which they shape timing at the perceptual level.

Music performance

  3. Music performance, 2021

    ARcTic Sustain

    Friederike Bischoff ; Lars Lien ; Berit Solset ; Jon Marius Aareskjold-Drecker ; Rolf-Steinar Borch ; Ingrid Eliassen ; Geir Davidsen ; Kåre Solmund Nystabakk ; Odd Kyrre Alsvik ; Erik Stifjell ; Anneli Marian Aareskjold Drecker ; Karsten Brustad

Conference

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