Where I write comments about things I think about and find interesting in relation to my research.
As mentioned previously (here and here), I have been doing some experiments on standing still in silence. One thing is to do it, another is to talk (or write) about it. Then I need to have words describing what I have been doing. To start with the simple; the word silence seems to be quite...
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At the ESCOM conference a few years ago I heard about the Ollen Musical Sophistication Index (OMSI), which is a ten-question standardised test for evaluating musical skills. The test is the result of the PhD dissertation by Joy Ollen. When I first read about this test, I thought it would be interesting to have an...
Read more →I have been delving into the world of what I have called micromovement recently. At first I did not think much about the word “micromovement” itself, assuming that this was a well-used word for small movements. But since several people have asked me about what I actually mean when talking about micromovements, I have...
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I spend a lot of time walking around the city with my daughter these days, and have been wondering how much I move and how the movement is distributed over time. To answer these questions, and to try out a method for easy and cheap motion capture, I decided to record today’s walk to the...
Read more →Terminology is always challenging. I have previously written about definitions of actions and gesture several times (e.g. here, here, and here) and chapter 2 in the book Musical gestures: sound, movement, and meaning (Routledge, 2010): There are, however, two words/terms that I still find very challenging to define properly and to differentiate: movement...
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