Tidligere arrangementer - Side 15

Cand.philol. Risto Holopainen will defend his dissertation "Self-organised Sound with Autonomous Instruments: Aesthetics and experiments" for the title philosophiae doctor (ph.d.) of the University of Oslo. 

In connection with the Ph.D. disputation of Risto Holopainen, the two external committee members ¨C Eduardo Reck Miranda and Stefania Serafin ¨C will visit the fourMs labs and hold short guest lectures presenting their current research. This is a great chance to hear two of the leading music technology researchers talk about their current research endeavours.

Results from the first Norwegian Championship of Standstill, held at the University of Oslo.

University of Oslo is a partner, and fourMs researchers will be teaching, at the International Summer School in Systematic Musicology (ISSSM2011), which will take place in Jyv?skyl?, starting on the 8th of August, 2011.

More information below (and here). 

The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression gathers researchers and musicians from all over the world to share their knowledge and late-breaking work on new musical interface design.

Every known culture has some form of dance, so it seems obvious that music and movement are closely connected with each other. But it's surprising how little we know about this connection. Why do certain tunes make us want to get up and dance, while others not so much? And when we do move, what compels us to do so one way and not another? What's more, when we watch others dance, why can we tell immediately if their gestures fit the music or not?

Bogdan Kwolek is associate professor in the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Rzesz¨®w University of Technology in Poland. His research focuses on different types of computer vision techniques for human motion analysis.

fourMs-researchers wil perform at Future Media Days 2010:

iPhone ensemble playing Bloom and Scrambler (for iPhone and small speakers). Featuring Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Kristian Nymoen, Anders Tveit, Arve Voldsund and Viet Phi Uy Hoang.

fourMs-researchers wil perform at the VERDIKT conference:

iPhone ensemble playing Bloom and Scrambler (for iPhone and small speakers). Featuring Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Kristian Nymoen, Anders Tveit, Arve Voldsund and Viet Phi Uy Hoang.

Dance Jockey by Yago de Quay and St?le Skogstad (using Xsens inertial motion capture)

Visiting researcher Yago de Quay will showcase his latest Interactive Systems for dance clubs at the venue Gabler . There will be four systems at work that night, namely the wii-make-music , video jockey , DJ , and motion to music . More information below.

Artistic research fellow at the Norwegian Academy of Music Victoria Johnson and fourMs-researcher Alexander Refsum Jensenius will perform a piece exploring improvisation in time and space during a concert that also features pieces by Henrik Hellstenius and Peter Tornquist.

Johnson and Jensenius have been collaborating for several years on exploration of various types of technologies for musical expression. The piece currently presented is based on video analysis using modules from the Musical Gestures Toolbox in Jamoma and CataRT .

fourMs-researchers wil participate in the Department of Musicology's semester opening concert.

Kristian Nymoen, Anders Tveit, Alexander Refsum Jensenius: Bloom and Scrambler (for iPhone and small speakers)

Yago de Quay, St?le Skogstad: Posture (with Xsens motion capture)

Come and visit us during the semester opening week for the autumn semester. There will be demonstrations of different motion capture systems, sonic interaction, robots, 3D-printing, and more.

The International Summer School in Systematic Musicology (ISSSM2010) will take place in Jyv?skyl?, starting on the 11th of August, 2010. The theme of the Summer School is Beauty in Music - Musical Aesthetics Revisited and it focuses on the most advanced and up-to-date topics of musicology through an interactive and cooperative learning approach.

The Music, Motion, and Emotion-project will host a seminar with four open lectures at Department of Musicology:  Program Monday 10 May

Kl. 10.15-11.30, Auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrups Hus: Filosof Mark Johnson, University of Oregon Kl. 11.45-13.00, Auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrups Hus: Kognitiv psykolog Raymond Gibbs, University of California, Santa Cruz: "Embodiment in metaphorical imagination" Kl. 14.15-15.15, Salen, ZEB-bygget: Musikkviter Lawrence Zbikowski, University of Chicago Kl. 15.30-16.30, Salen, ZEB-bygget: Musikkviter Steve Larson, University of Oregon

Title: Musical Forces and Musical Analysis

Professor Steve Larson , University of Oregon

On the Development of an Auditory Virtual Environment for Musical Applications

In the last few decades, the development of audio reproduction and spatialization techniques greatly benefits from composers whose pioneering work still inspires researchers to refine spatial audio systems (e.g. Stockhausen, Chowning, Boulez). However, novel spatialization tools developed by engineers and researchers hardly find their way from the developers' labs into the composition studios. To make future developments more applicable, researchers have to understand this current lack of coherence between development and artistic use.

In this talk, first, results of a quantitative study are presented and shows how composers use spatialization, what spatial aspects are essential and what functionalities spatial audio systems should strive to include or improve. Secondly, ViMiC (Virtual Microphone Control), a novel spatial rendering software is presented. ViMiC provides a computer-generated virtual environment for the purpose of creating spatial sounds scenes. Apart from positioning sound sources, other spatial aspects, such as source width, distance, and room impression, can be created in real-time, particularly for concert situations and site-specific immersive installations.

Come and visit us during Open day at the university. There will be demonstrations of different motion capture systems, sonic interaction, robots, 3D-printing, and more.

Postdoctoral researcher Alexander Refsum Jensenius will hold an open lecture during the annual "Faglig-pedagogisk dag" at University of Oslo.

Tittel: Musikk og bevegelse

Sammendrag: Musikk oppst?r som bevegelse hos musikeren, og musikk skaper bevegelse hos den som lytter. Selv om de ?este er enige om at kropp og bevegelse er en naturlig, og essensiell, del av musikkopplevelsen, har det v?rt p?fallende lite fokus p? musikkrelaterte bevegelser i undervisning og forskning. Forelesningen vil gi en helhetlig presentasjon av hvordan vi kan forst? og studere musikkrelaterte bevegelser.

Postdoctoral researcher Alexander Refsum Jensenius will hold an open lecture during the annual "Faglig-pedagogisk dag" at University of Oslo.

Tittel: Musikk og bevegelse

Sammendrag: Musikk oppst?r som bevegelse hos musikeren, og musikk skaper bevegelse hos den som lytter. Selv om de ?este er enige om at kropp og bevegelse er en naturlig, og essensiell, del av musikkopplevelsen, har det v?rt p?fallende lite fokus p? musikkrelaterte bevegelser i undervisning og forskning. Forelesningen vil gi en helhetlig presentasjon av hvordan vi kan forst? og studere musikkrelaterte bevegelser.

Assoc. Professor Marcelo M. Wanderley from McGill University in Montreal, Canada will hold a guest lecture on the topic Design and Evaluation of New Interfaces for Musical Expression.

PhD students Marc Thompson & Birgitta Burger from the University of Jyv?skyl? will demonstrate the  MoCap Toolboxfor Matlab.

The MoCap Toolbox is a Matlab? toolbox that contains functions for the analysis and visualization of motion capture data. It supports the generic .c3d file format, the .tsv data format produced by the Qualisys ProReflex system, and the .wii format produced by the WiiDataCapture software.

As preparations for the Motion Capture Workshop next week, we will be giving an introduction to using the NaturalPoint Optitrack system that is currently set up in the fourMs Lab.

A workshop on hyperimprovisation, with international and national guests.