Carl Haakon Waadeland

Carl Haakon Waadeland (born 8 November 1952) is a Norwegian musicologist and jazz drummer, known from several bands and releases such as with Dadafon, Dum Dum Boys, Åge & Sambandet, Halvdan Sivertsen, Warne Marsh, Kenny Wheeler, Annbjørg Lien, Henning Sommerro, Bjørn Alterhaug, John Pål Inderberg, Knutsen & Ludvigsen, Mikis Theodorakis and Arja Saijonmaa. He was one of the driving forces behind the jazz program at NTNU which he also directed.

Career Waadeland holds a master's degree in mathematics and PhD in music theory from the NTNU, where he concentrates on rhythm, swing, music performance (performologi), rhythm and movement, as a professor of Music. Knutsen & Ludvigsen, Gary Holton & Casino Steel (1982), Hans Rotmo, Terje Tysland, Halvdan Sivertsen, Hilde Heltberg, Åge Aleksandersen, Øystein Dolmen, Dum Dum Boys and Henning Sommerro.

He performed repeatedly at Moldejazz Festival, Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Nattjazz in Bergen, Festival of North Norway, Trondheim Jazz Festival, St. Olav Festival in Trondheim, and Trøndelag Theatre and Concert scenes.

Selected publications Waadeland, C. H. (2011). Rhythm performance from a spectral point of view. In A. R. Jensenius, A. Tveit, R. I. Godøy & D. Overholt (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (pp. 248–251). University of Oslo. Waadeland, C.H (2006). The influence of tempo on movement and timing in rhythm performance. In: Proceedings of 9th international conference on music perception and cognition. Bologna University Press, 2006, , pp. 45–46. Waadeland, C.H (2006). Strategies in empirical studies of swing groove. Studia Musicologica Norvegica (32) pp. 169–191. Waadeland, C.H. (2003). Analysis of Jazz Drummers' Movements in Performance of Swing Grooves – A Preliminary Report. Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference, 6–9 August 2003 (SMAC 03), Volume II (573–576). KTH, Stockholm. . Journal of New Music Research 30(1), 23–37. Waadeland, C.H. (2001). "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" – Simulating Expressive Timing by Modulated Movements. Journal of New Music Research 30(1), pp. 23–37. Waadeland, C.H. (1991). Trommeslåtter- en trommeslagers skattekiste (bok+kassett). Trondheim: TIMA Forlag. New release 2008: Norsk Musikforlag A/S: Bok+CD. Danielsen, A, Waadeland, C.H, Sundt, H.G. (2008). Identifying Timing by Sound: Timbral Qualities of Micro-Rhythm. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. ICMPC10, Sapporo, Japan, 2008. s. 74 Petrini, Karin; Pollick, Frank E; Dahl, S; McAleer, P; McKay, L; Rocchesso, Davide; Waadeland, Carl Haakon; Love, Scott; Avanzini, Federico; Puce, Aina (2011). Action expertise reduces brain activity for audiovisual matching actions: An fMRI study with expert drummers. NeuroImage Volum 56.(3) s. 1480–1492

Discography

As Carl Haakon Solo projects 2008: Din Råta Tjuv (Heilo), nominated for the Norwegian Folk Music Awards 2008, in several classes

As Karl Håkon Within Søyr 1977: Søyr (MAI 7705)

With DumDum Boys 1988: Blodig Alvor Na Na Na Na Na (CBS)

As Carlos With TNT 1988: Tell No Tales (Vertigo)

With Gary Holton & Casino Steel 1983: III Edition (Polydor) 1984: No 4 (Polydor)