• Posts Tagged ‘motion’

    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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    Audio recordings as motion capture

    by  • Wednesday 5 October 2011 • Research • 1 Comment

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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...

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    Difference between the terms movement and motion

    by  • Sunday 2 October 2011 • Research • 4 Comments

    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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    Standing still

    by  • Monday 21 March 2011 • Research • 3 Comments

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    In between organizing a little conference, teaching (MUS2006, MUS2860, MUS4830), and finalizing some publications, I have started a new research/artistic project with Kari Anne Bjerkestrand. I’ll write a lot more on this later, but for now I just wanted to share a plot from a motion capture recording of a single marker placed on...

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