The Researcher
Background
2013-2014 CAS Music Research, Lucerne School of Music, with Olivier Senn & Marc-Antoine Camp
2013-2014 Research Assistant, Forschungsschwerpunkt Performance, Lucerne School of Music
since 2014 Research Associate at the Competence Center Music Performance Research, Lucerne School of Music
since 2019 PhD Student, University of Birmingham, with Maria Witek & Ben Curry
Research Interests
Groove, Catchiness, Rhythm, Music Perception, Musical Complexity, Perceptual Attack Time, Jazz, Harmony, Popular Music
Publications
Journal Articles
Stupacher, J., Bechtold, T., & Senn, O. (2023). A text mining approach to the use of “groove” in everyday language. Psychology of Music, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356231205883
Senn, O., Hoesl, F., Jerjen, R., Bechtold, T. A., Kilchenmann, L., Rose, D., & Alessandri, E. (2023). A Stimulus Set of 40 Popular Music Drum Patterns with Perceived Complexity Measures. Music & Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043231202576
Senn, O., Bechtold, T. A., Jerjen, R., Kilchenmann, L., & Hoesl, F. (2023). Three Psychometric Scales for Groove Research: Inner Representation of Temporal Regularity, Time-Related Interest, and Energetic Arousal. Music & Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043231185663
Bechtold, T. A., Kilchenmann, L., Curry, B., & Witek, M. A. G. (2023). Understanding the Relationship Between Catchiness and Groove: A Qualitative Study with Popular Music Creators. Music Perception, 40 (5): 353–372. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2023.40.5.353
Senn, O., Bechtold, T., Hoesl, F., Jerjen, R., Kilchenmann, L., Rose, D., Baldassarre, A., Sigrist, C., & Alessandri, E. (2023). An SEM approach to validating the psychological model of musical groove. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001087
Bechtold, T., Jerjen, R., & Senn, O. (2022). Applied Groove Research. The IASJ Journal of Applied Jazz Research; 1 (1). https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/iasj_journal/vol1/iss1/7
Hosken, F., Bechtold, T., Hoesl, F., Kilchenmann, L., & Senn, O. (2021). Drum Groove Corpora. Empirical Musicology Review, 16(1), 114–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/emr.v16i1.7642
Düvel, N., Labonde, P., Bechtold, T., Senn, O., & Kopiez, R. (2021). Experience of Groove Questionnaire: German Translation and Validation. Music Perception, 39 (1): 83–99. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2021.39.1.83
Senn, O., Bechtold, T., Rose, D., Câmara, G. S., Düvel, N., Jerjen, R., Kilchenmann, L., Hoesl, F., Baldassarre, A., & Alessandri, E. (2020). Experience of Groove Questionnaire: Instrument Development and Initial Validation. Music Perception, 38(1), 46–65. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2020.38.1.46
Senn, O., Rose D., Bechtold, T., Kilchenmann, L., Hoesl, F., Jerjen, R., Baldassarre, A., Alessandri, E., (2019). Preliminaries to a Psychological Model of Musical Groove. Frontiers in Psychology, doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01228
Senn, O., Bechtold, T. A., Hoesl, F., & Kilchenmann, L. (2019). Taste and familiarity affect the experience of groove in popular music. Musicae Scientiae, 00(0), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864919839172
Senn, O., Kilchenmann, L., Bechtold, T. A., & Hoesl, F. (2018). Groove in drum patterns as a function of both rhythmic properties and listeners' attitudes. PLoS ONE, 13(6), 1-33. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199604
Bechtold, T. A., & Senn, O. (2018). Articulation and dynamics influence the perceptual attack time of saxophone sounds. Frontiers in Psychology, doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01692
Bookchapters
Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Jerjen, Rafael (2022). Wie populär sind die «besten Alben aller Zeiten»? Eine empirische Betrachtung zur Kanonbildung in der Popmusik. In Knut Holtsträter (Hrsg.), Richtig populär? Kriterien der Popularität von Musik (Vol.67, S. 61-78). Münster: Waxmann.
Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Senn, Olivier (2016). Jungle Beats: Beobachtungen und Gedanken zur Musik von Irène Schweizer. In Christian Broecking (Hrsg.), Dieses unbändige Gefühl der Freiheit: Irène Schweizer - Jazz, Avantgarde, Politik (S. 385-404). Berlin: Broecking Verlag
Presentations & Posters (selection)
Bechtold, T., Kilchenmann, L., & Witek, M. (2023). A Driving Beat with a Captivating Melody on Top – The Relationship between Groove and Catchiness in Polyphonic Popular Music. SysMus'23, Sheffield.
Bechtold, T., Jerjen, R., Hoesl, F., Kilchenmann, L., & Senn, O. (2023). Extending the Lucerne Groove Library. RPPW19, Nottingham.
Bechtold, T., & Witek, M. (2022). The Relationship between Groove and Catchiness in Popular Music Patterns. SysMus’22, Ghent.
Bechtold, Toni Amadeus (2021). Jazz-related research at HSLU. 2021 IASJ Research Conference, Leiden.
Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Witek, Maria (2021). Groove and catchiness in popular music: an interview study with music experts. ICMPC-ESCOM 2021, Sheffield.
Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Witek, Maria (2021). That’s a Different Type of Groove: How musician’s strategies change groove experiences. Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop (RPPW) 2021, Oslo.
Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Hoesl, Florian & Senn, Olivier (2019). On the perception of rhythmic complexity by musical experts and non-experts. IMS 2019: Intercongressional Symposium, Luzern.
Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Hoesl, Florian & Jerjen, Rafael (2019). Sample Selection in Corpus-Based Research and the Canonization of Popular Music. IMS 2019: Intercongressional Symposium, Luzern.
Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Hoesl, Florian & Senn, Olivier (2018). Categorizing Western popular music drum patterns. ICMPC15-ESCOM10, Graz.
Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Senn, Olivier (2017). The influence of articulation and dynamics on the perceptual attack time of saxophone tones. International Symposium on Performance Science 2017, Reykjavik.
Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Hoesl, Florian & Senn, Olivier (2017). The Lucerne Groove Research Library: A collection of materials for groove studies. International Symposium on Performance Science 2017, Reykjavik.
Other work
Co-organizer of the first Groove Workshop, an international conference on Jan 25th-27th 2023