• About alexarje

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

    http://www.arj.no

    Application writing as example of stretchtext

    by  • Tuesday 29 November 2011 • Research • 0 Comments

    I have been working on an ERC Starting Grant application over the last months. Besides the usual conceptual/practical challenges of writing funding applications, this particular application also posed the challenge of writing not only one proposal document, but two: one long (15 pages) and one short (5 pages). I am used to writing research...

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    Transformation on YouTube

    by  • Monday 28 November 2011 • Concerts • 0 Comments

    Victoria Johnson

    Victoria Johnson has posted a video of the performance of our piece Transformation on Youtube: The video is from Victoria’s final performance as part of her research fellowship in the arts (PhD-equivalent), which happened Monday 28 March 2011 at the Norwegian Academy of Music. As I wrote earlier this year: Transformation a piece where we are using...

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    Avoiding Flash

    by  • Friday 25 November 2011 • Research • 0 Comments

    occupy-flash

    Reinstalling a laptop I thought it would be a good idea to join the Occupy Flash campagin. The manifesto says: Flash Player is dead. Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn’t work on most mobile devices. It’s a fossil, left over from the era...

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    Motionlessness

    by  • Thursday 10 November 2011 • Research • 1 Comment

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    Yesterday Miles Phillips suggested that the word “motionlessness” may be what I am after when it comes to describing the act of standing still. He further pointed me to a web site with a list of the world records for motionlessness. The rules to compete in motionlessness is as follows: The record is for continuously standing motionless....

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    Compact bibliography list in LaTeX

    by  • Wednesday 2 November 2011 • Research • 0 Comments

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    I have already written about how to compact lists earlier today. Now is the time to compact the bibliography… This is how the regular bibliography in LaTeX looks like: First I found a suggestion to use the setspace function, but it turns out that it is much easier to just use the bibsep option...

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