This week the huge ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) is organised in Paris. This is the largest conference in the field of human-computer interaction, and is also the conference at which the NIME conference series started. I will participate in a panel session called “Music, Technology, and Human-Computer...
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Earlier this year, before I started as head of department, I was working on a non-realtime implementation of my sonomotiongram technique (a sonomotiongram is a sonic display of motion from a video recording, created by sonifying a motiongram). Now I finally found some time to wrap it up and make it available as an OSX application called ImageSonifyer. The...
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One of the most satisfying things of being a researcher, is to see that ideas, theories, methods, software and other things that you come up with, are useful to others. Today I received the master’s thesis of Per Erik Walslag, titled Are you jumping or bouncing? A case-study of jumping and bouncing in classical ballet...
Read more →I am happy to announce that fourMs researcher Kristian Nymoen has successfully defended his PhD dissertation, and that the dissertation is now available in the DUO archive. I have had the pleasure of co-supervising Kristian’s project, and also to work closely with him on several of the papers included in the dissertation (and a...
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Yet another of my master students have graduated recently, and here is a link to his thesis: Even Bekkedal: Music Kinection : Musical Sound and Motion in Interactive Systems Even has carried out a so-called “practical” master thesis, with a more practical focus. He has carried out a mocap analysis of how people move while playing...
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I am happy to announce that the dissertation of one my master students has just been made available in the DUO archive: Catherine Støver: Freestyle Dressage : an equipage riding to music Catherine wrote about the importance and influence of music in freestyle dressage. Most of my students are working on more music technological topics, and...
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Today I start as Head of Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo! One of the things I promised in my application was to set up a Head of Department blog, and I am happy to announce that the first entry was posted this morning. I am thrilled and excited to get the...
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