Yesterday I held a workshop on music-related motion capture at this year’s Art.on.Wires. The workshop was quite similar to the one I held in Trondheim a couple of weeks ago. Trond Lossius held workshops on Jamoma and surround sound, and there were many other interesting workshops as well. Below are some pictures from the...
Read more →I will participate in a motion capture workshop at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) tomorrow. My contribution will consist of the following: Lecture: Introduction to motion capture (in music analysis and performance) Demo 1: Working with video analysis using the Musical Gestures Toolbox Demo 2: The Xsens MVN BioMech mobile mocap...
Read more →
For some papers I am currently working on, I have taken up my interest in definitions of different types of disciplinarities (see blog post from a couple of years ago). Since that time I think the talking about the need for working interdisciplinary has only increased, but still there seem to be no real...
Read more →
On Thursday we are organising the first Norwegian Championship of standstill at University of Oslo. This is part of the University’s Open Day, a day when potential new students can come and see what happens on campus. Besides the competitive part, the championship is (of course) a great way to gather more data about...
Read more →
Yesterday I was teaching a workshop on laptop orchestra performance for the students in Live electronics at the Norwegian Academy of Music. I usually start such workshops by playing the piece Clix by Ge Wang (see e.g. here for a performance of it). It is a fun piece to play, and it is nice...
Read more →
When creating figures for papers written in LaTeX, I have found it aesthetically unpleasing to have different fonts in the figures than in the text. Most figures I create in either OmniGraffle or Matlab, and here I have relied on regular OSX fonts. Fortunately, I have discovered that it is possible to use LaTeX...
Read more →
A couple of days ago I presented the paper “Motion-sound Interaction Using Sonification based on Motiongrams” at the ACHI 2012 conference in Valencia, Spain. The paper is actually based on a Jamoma module that I developed more than a year ago, but due to other activities it took a while before I managed to...
Read more →