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Presentation: Action - Sound
| What | BEKart Presentation Workshop |
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| When |
03-sep-2007 from 14:00 to 15:30 |
| Where | BEK |
| Contact Name | Trond Lossius |
| Contact Email | lossius@bek.no |
| Contact Phone | (+47) 95 92 26 13 |
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Alexander Refsum Jensenius: ACTION – SOUND – Developing Methods and Tools to Study Music-Related Body Movement Mandag 3. september kl. 1400-1530
Body movement is integral to both performance and perception of music. Research suggests that we also think about music as movement. Based on ideas of embodied music cognition, it is argued that ecological knowledge of action-sound couplings guide our experience of music, both in perception and performance. A taxonomy of music-related body movements is introduced, before various observation studies of perceiver’s music-movement correspondences are presented: air instrument performance, free dance to music, and sound-tracing. These studies showed that both novices and experts alike seem to associate various types of body movement with features in the musical sound. Knowledge from the observation studies has been used in the exploration of artificial action-sound relationships through the development of various prototype music controllers, showing that it is possible to create low-cost and human-friendly music controllers that may be both intuitive and creatively interesting.
Various tools and methods have been developed, including the Musical Gestures Toolbox for the graphical programming environment Max/MSP/Jitter; techniques for creating motion history images and motiongrams of video material; and development of the Gesture Description Interchange Format (GDIF) for streaming and storing music-related movement data. These tools may be seen as an answer to many of the research questions posed, and have facilitated the analysis of music-related movement and creation of artificial action-sound relationships.
Bio:
Alexander is a research fellow in music technology in the Musical Gestures Group, University of Oslo. His main research interests are focused around aspects of embodied music cognition and the importance of action-sound couplings for music performance and perception. Alexander is active in the international computer music community, through a number of collaborative projects, and as the initiator of GDIF. Alexander holds a BA in music and mathematics and an MA in musicology from the University of Oslo, and an MSc in Art & Technology from Chalmers University of Technology, and he has been a visiting researcher at CNMAT, UC Berkeley and IDMIL, McGill University. Alexander performs on keyboard instruments and live electronics, and wants to pursue a career in music technology research and multimedia performance/design.
GDIF – Gesture Description Interchange Format
Alexander Refsum Jensenius
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