Panel at ICMC

Yesterday I chaired a panel session at the International Computer Music Conference in Copenhagen entitled: “The Need of Formats for Streaming and Storing Music-Related Movement and Gesture Data”. Participants of the panel were: Alexander R. Jensenius (Oslo) Benjamin Knapp [Antonio Camurri] (SARC / Genova) Nicolas Castagné (Acroe, Grenoble) Esteban Maestre (Pompeu Fabra) Joseph Malloch (McGill) [...]

Muting a Mac on startup

One solution to avoiding that chime on booting your mac is to hold down the F3 key at startup. A more permanent solution is offered through the StartupSoundPrefPane which is described in more detail here.

Interview on ADHD

On Friday I appeared in an interview in Aftenposten, one of the larger newspapers in Norway. The interview describes a recently started collaboration between the Musical Gestures group and Terje Sagvolden‘s group working on ADHD. More precisely, they are interested in using my Musical Gestures Toolbox and motiongrams for studying the movements of rats and [...]

Cognitive Load Theory

I have been sitting through a number of presentations the last days (and many more will follow…), and came to think about some keypoints from the Cognitive Load Theory: Working memory is only limited when you’re learning new information. Once information is in long-term memory, it can be brought back to working memory in very [...]

Reflections on a PhD project 1

I am slowly adjusting to normal life after finishing my dissertation in July. Needless to say, completing a dissertation is a long physical and psychological experience. In the coming weeks I will write up some of the thoughts I have had during the final lap of the project. Looking at my blog activity over the [...]