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
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, Toni; Jerjen, Rafael & Senn, Olivier (2022). Applied Groove Research. The IASJ Journal of Applied Jazz Research; 1 (1). https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/iasj_journal/vol1/iss1/7
Hosken, Fred, Bechtold, Toni, Hoesl, Florian, Kilchenmann, Lorenz, & Senn, Olivier (2021). Drum Groove Corpora. Empirical Musicology Review, 16 (1), 114–123. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/emr.v16i1.7642
Düvel, Nina; Labonde, Philippe; Bechtold, Toni; Senn, Olivier & Kopiez, Reinhard (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, Olivier; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Rose, Dawn; Câmara, Guilherme Schmidt; Düvel, Nina; Jerjen, Rafael; Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Hoesl, Florian; Baldassarre, Antonio; & Alessandri, Elena (2020). Experience of Groove Questionnaire: Instrument development and initial validation. Music Perception, 38 (1), 46-65. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2020.38.1.46
Senn, Olivier; Rose, Dawn; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Hoesl, Florian; Jerjen, Rafael; Baldassarre, Antonio & Alessandri, Elena (2019). Preliminaries to a Psychological Model of Musical Groove. Frontiers in Psychology / Performance Science, 10, 1. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01228
Senn, Olivier; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Hoesl, Florian & Kilchenmann, Lorenz (2019). Taste and familiarity affect the experience of groove in popular music. Musicae Scientiae, 1-22. doi: doi.org/10.1177/1029864919839172
Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Senn, Olivier (2018). Articulation and Dynamics Influence the Perceptual Attack Time of Saxophone Sounds. Frontiers in Psychology / Performance Science, 1-11. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01692
Senn, Olivier; Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Hoesl, Florian (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
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., & 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