• About alexarje

    Alexander Refsum Jensenius is a music researcher and research musician living in Oslo, Norway.

    http://www.arj.no

    New Laptop Orchestra Piece: Click-It

    by  • Thursday 9 February 2012 • Research • 0 Comments

    click-it-gui

    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 to [...]

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    LaTeX fonts in OSX

    by  • Tuesday 7 February 2012 • Research • 0 Comments

    cmu-font-book

    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 fonts [...]

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    Sonification of motiongrams

    by  • Friday 3 February 2012 • Research • 0 Comments

    7-time-frequency3

    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 write [...]

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    Recovery time after e-mail and phone calls

    by  • Thursday 2 February 2012 • Research • 0 Comments

    I have for some time tried to put my phone in silent mode and turn off my e-mail program before lunch. I am most productive in the mornings, and being able to work 3-4 hours without any interruptions, is very valuable. My solution to the problem of minor (and larger) interruptions has come out of [...]

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    Virtual park at Amsterdam airport

    by  • Wednesday 1 February 2012 • Research • 0 Comments

    amsterdam

    I just discovered that it is possible to create blog posts from TextMate (see introductions here and here), so this is my first attempt. To also add some content to this blog entry, here is a short video I shot at Shiphol airport in Amsterdam yesterday. Walking through the otherwise busy airport, I noticed that [...]

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