Shaping rhythm: timing and sound in five groove-based genres

Abstract Shaping events at the microlevel of rhythm is an important aspect many groove-based musics. In present study, we explore interconnectedness musical parameters such as timing, attack shape, timbre and relative intensity in creating groove through investigating musicians producers’ discourse five genres (jazz, samba, electronic dance music, hip-hop traditional Scandinavian fiddle music). Through semi-structured interviews, found both genre-specific accounts how features interact a cross-generic focus on inducing movement by shaping sound generating rhythmic friction. The study empirically substantiates multiparameter nature performance experience, that particular genre-typical configurations temporal sonic are needed to create experience groove. It thereby adds scholarly groove, which has often taken more general time-oriented view rhythm.