“Dr Air Guitar” has become my new nickname after an NRK feature story in connection to my disputation last week. This led to an overwhelming amount of media interest, with numerous newspaper articles, a handful of TV appearances, and a dozen radio interviews.
It is strange how this air guitar thing became the main issue. We did do an air guitar study, but that was only one of several observation studies conducted in the Musical Gestures project that I have worked in. When speaking to journalists, I have tried to talk more generally about music and movement, but the titles have ended up with air guitar… The only exception is DN, who instead named me Doktor Riff!
Here are some of the articles (all in Norwegian):