The Lucerne Groove Library: An audio stimulus corpus of 444 short Western popular music drum and bass patterns with behavioural, structural, and audio measurements

This study presents an audio stimulus corpus consisting of 444 Western popular music drum and bass patterns called the Lucerne Groove Library. Common requirements for stimuli in music psychological research, particularly studies on the experience of groove, are outlined, followed by a description of how these criteria are addressed in the presented corpus. For example, the corpus is designed to combine ecological validity with high manipulability, facilitating the use of the corpus in a variety of experimental settings. The methods section provides a detailed account of material selection, audio creation, and measures. Ground-truth behavioural data for the stimuli were obtained through a listening experiment (e.g., ratings on the urge to move in response to the stimuli and style assignments by participants). Several structural data (e.g., tempo and event density) and audio features (e.g., low frequency sub-band flux) were measured for each stimulus, and an overview over all data is provided. Potential applications of the corpus in future studies are discussed, including variables along which stimuli can be selected or manipulated. The corpus is published in different formats and with a range of accompanying data, all of which can be found in the online repository.