Bio: Alexander Refsum Jensenius, BA, MA, MSc, PhD [he/him] is a music researcher and research musician. He is a professor of music technology and Director of RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion. He studies how and why people move to music in the fourMs Lab and uses this knowledge to create new music with untraditional instruments. Publications include the monograph Sound Actions and the Sonic Design and A NIME Reader anthologies. He has been named Open Science Champion through his involvement in modernizing how research is conceived and conducted, including research-based educational approaches through online courses such as Music Moves, Motion Capture, and Pupillometry. Alexander received a multi-disciplinary bachelor's degree in music and mathematics and a master's in musicology from the University of Oslo. He then completed a master's in applied information technology at the Chalmers University of Technology before pursuing a PhD in music technology at the University of Oslo. He has been a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley (CNMAT), McGill University (IDMIL), and KTH (TMH). He was Head of the Department of Musicology from 2013-2016 and led the Steering Committee of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression from 2011-2022.
Teaching and Tutoring
- Embodied music cognition
- Sound and music computing
- New interfaces for musical expression
- Musical human-computer interaction
- Music and AI (rule-based systems and machine learning)
- Video analysis and motion capture
