https://www.arj.no/ Recent content on ARJ (English) https://www.arj.no/images/_F8A4088_doc6pg1cufjdr42ycbfd0e.jpg https://www.arj.no/images/_F8A4088_doc6pg1cufjdr42ycbfd0e.jpg Hugo -- 0.152.2 en-us Alexander Refsum Jensenius. CC-BY-SA 4.0 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/06/03/coauthorship-exercise-arts/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/06/03/coauthorship-exercise-arts/ Adding the Arts to the Coauthorship Exercise. Today, we will have a workshop with the MishMash work package leaders, and for that I thought it would be useful. https://www.arj.no/2026/06/02/porting-oslo-mobile-orchestra-patches-to-web-audio-apps/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/06/02/porting-oslo-mobile-orchestra-patches-to-web-audio-apps/ Porting Oslo Mobile Orchestra patches to Web Audio apps. I started up Oslo Mobile Orchestra (OMO) in 2009 (originally named Oslo iPhone Ensemble), expanding on. https://www.arj.no/2026/05/29/creative-industries-europe-norway/ Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/05/29/creative-industries-europe-norway/ The Cultural and Creative Industries in Europe and Norway. I participated in the event WISE x HOUSE OF NORDIC VISIONS at the Nordic Embassies in Berlin. https://www.arj.no/2026/05/16/drunk-ai/ Sat, 16 May 2026 22:46:00 +0200 https://www.arj.no/2026/05/16/drunk-ai/ The 'Drunk' AI. Earlier today, I wrote about AI and photography based on an interesting panel conversation at Fotografiens Hus in Oslo. During the Q&A session. https://www.arj.no/2026/05/16/ai-photography/ Sat, 16 May 2026 18:02:00 +0200 https://www.arj.no/2026/05/16/ai-photography/ AI and photography. Today, I took part in an interesting panel conversation at Fotografiens Hus in Oslo in connection with the exhibition What We Call Real by. https://www.arj.no/2026/05/15/latent-space-anarchive/ Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/05/15/latent-space-anarchive/ Latent spaces as emerging anarchives. Earlier today, I attended a lecture by Antonio Somaini at the University of Oslo's seminar series on aesthetics. There. https://www.arj.no/2026/05/02/svg-disciplinarity/ Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/05/02/svg-disciplinarity/ SVG version of the disciplinarity figure. Back in 2012, I published what has become my (by far) most-read blog post: Disciplinarities: intra, cross, multi. https://www.arj.no/2026/04/24/videoviz/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/04/24/videoviz/ Video visualisation in the browser. I am at the Movement Computing Conference (MOCO) in Montpellier and have been discussing motion capture and analysis all. https://www.arj.no/2026/04/23/retrieving-data-from-an-orcid-profile/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/04/23/retrieving-data-from-an-orcid-profile/ Retrieving data from an ORCID profile. After concluding that it is not viable to use institutional person pages to build a "Who's Who" directory for MishMash. https://www.arj.no/2026/04/23/nva-metadata/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/04/23/nva-metadata/ Retrieving data from NVA. I have seen that it is possible to build a complete CV from NVA data, the Norwegian research registry. As part of my quest to collect. https://www.arj.no/2026/04/22/uio-personal-metadata/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/04/22/uio-personal-metadata/ Building a 'Who's Who' directory from institutional data. The Open Graph standard has helped "automagically" collect information about partner events on. https://www.arj.no/2026/04/21/nva-norcam/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/04/21/nva-norcam/ An inside look at how to build a NOR-CAM (Norwegian Career Assessment Matrix) inspired CV, mapping diverse outputs and reflections across six competence areas. https://www.arj.no/2026/04/19/open-graph-explanation/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/04/19/open-graph-explanation/ A blog post exploring the Open Graph standard and how it lets web pages share structured information with social platforms, search engines, and other websites. https://www.arj.no/2026/04/14/github-agents-mgt/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/04/14/github-agents-mgt/ Testing GitHub Agents for cleaning up the Musical Gestures Toolbox. Over the last few days, we have run a toolbox hackathon between the three music-related. https://www.arj.no/2026/04/09/mishmash-formally-opened/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/04/09/mishmash-formally-opened/ MishMash formally opened. MishMash was formally opened yesterday with a full-day program featuring a hackathon, research application workshop, work package. https://www.arj.no/2026/04/03/no-bullets-please/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/04/03/no-bullets-please/ No bullets, please!. This post has a simple mission: stop making template-based "title + bullet point"-style slides for your presentation. Yes, most Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2026/04/02/building-a-local-llm-driven-chat-for-my-web-page/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/04/02/building-a-local-llm-driven-chat-for-my-web-page/ How this site runs a local WebLLM chatbot with TF-IDF RAG over chat/docs plus English and Norwegian content, including a one-command pre-upload build workflow. https://www.arj.no/2026/03/29/mishmash-bubble-animations/ Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/03/29/mishmash-bubble-animations/ More MishMash bubble animations. Some weeks ago, I wrote about how I made blinking MishMash bubbles. Today, I wanted to see if I could create more variations. https://www.arj.no/2026/03/22/agent-coding-music-tools/ Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/03/22/agent-coding-music-tools/ I have explored how GitHub Copilot agents can help create a suite of browser-based music tools (metronome, tuner, piano, and drum kit) in minutes using HTML, CSS, vanilla JavaScript, and the Web Audio API. https://www.arj.no/2026/03/18/nva-erc-cv/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/03/18/nva-erc-cv/ Creating an ERC-style CV with NotebookLM. While part of the group that developed the Norwegian Career Assessment Matrix (NOR-CAM), I strongly advocated for the. https://www.arj.no/2026/03/15/blinking-bubbles/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/03/15/blinking-bubbles/ Making the MishMash Bubbles Blink. Now that we have the MishMash "bubble" illustration as an editable SVG image, it is time to start playing around with how it. https://www.arj.no/2026/03/15/rotate-pdf-properly/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/03/15/rotate-pdf-properly/ Rotate PDF files properly. While preparing for a concert yesterday, I needed to copy a bunch of scores (in PDF format) over to a pad. They were all from. https://www.arj.no/2026/03/14/cleaning-up-the-mishmash-cube-svg-image/ Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/03/14/cleaning-up-the-mishmash-cube-svg-image/ Cleaning Up the MishMash Cube SVG Image. Some weeks ago, I wrote about how I modified the SVG image of the MishMash "bubbles". Today, I got around to doing a. https://www.arj.no/2026/02/28/modifying-svg-images/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/02/28/modifying-svg-images/ A guide to creating and modifying SVG images programmatically, exploring how to convert complex vector graphics into clean, editable code and add dynamic effects. https://www.arj.no/2026/02/12/print-booklets/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/02/12/print-booklets/ Printing booklets from a PDF. A little while ago, I wrote about how to prepare a document for multi-page printing using the terminal. Today, I had to find a. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/15/hyperscanning/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/15/hyperscanning/ Brief introduction to hyperscanning and fNIRS, examples from RITMO workshops and concerts, and practical considerations for conducting hyperscanning studies. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/14/multi-page-printing/ Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/14/multi-page-printing/ Multi-page printing using the terminal. It feels somewhat old-school to write a blog post about printing, but this is mainly a note-to-self and a reminder for. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/13/mus2640-h25-interdisciplinarity/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/13/mus2640-h25-interdisciplinarity/ Integrating Musicology, Psychology, and Technology in Education. One of my main goals while teaching MUS2640 – Sensing Sound and Music last semester was the. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/13/ritmo-a-coffee-machine-centre/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/13/ritmo-a-coffee-machine-centre/ RITMO – A coffee machine centre. I have visited the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra over the last couple of days. During two. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/11/kinetics-and-kinematics/ Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/11/kinetics-and-kinematics/ Kinetics and Kinematics. People often confuse kinetics and kinematics. What are they, and which one can you derive from motion capture data? Kinematics. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/10/octaves-arent-rhythmic/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/10/octaves-arent-rhythmic/ Octaves aren't Rhythmic. I see that the concept of "tempo octave" is being used by some researchers in the music information retrieval (MIR) community. This is. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/10/videogram-navigation/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/10/videogram-navigation/ Videograms for Video Navigation. Yesterday, I wrote about some reflections I had during Olgerta Asko's PhD defence. Today, while chopping up the video. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/09/generalisation-deliberation/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/09/generalisation-deliberation/ From Generalisation to Deliberation. Today, we had the PhD defence of Olgerta Asko at RITMO. Her research is super interesting in itself (check out this. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/04/ai-creative-history/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/04/ai-creative-history/ The History and Future of Creative AI. Yesterday, I wrote about the history and future of AI in general. Today, I am continuing my explorations by examining. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/03/ai-history-future/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/03/ai-history-future/ The History and Future of AI. Due to MishMash, I am nowadays lecturing on AI, music, and creativity several times a week. I usually include a brief overview of. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/02/arj-notebooklm/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/02/arj-notebooklm/ Using Google NotebookLM to summarize my academic results. I find Google's NotebookLM to be one of the most powerful tools for researchers these days. Its core. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/02/abcjs-music-scores/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/02/abcjs-music-scores/ Writing music scores on Hugo blog posts with ABCJS. Since I am on a roll with cleaning up my Hugo-based blog, adding alt text, and supporting math writing, I. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/01/2026-new-direction/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/01/2026-new-direction/ 2026, a Year of Transition. Happy new year! As we move into 2026, I am currently undergoing a gradual shift in my academic life. I don't have any new annual. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/01/katex-setup/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/01/katex-setup/ Adding math support to Hugo blog with KaTeX. I am continuing to clean my Hugo site. Going over old posts, I found one on explaining artificial neural networks. https://www.arj.no/2025/12/31/alt-text-ai-generation/ Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/12/31/alt-text-ai-generation/ Automating alt text generation for all blog images. Yesterday, I wrote about how I cleaned up a lot of old mess here on this blog. This made me realize that I. https://www.arj.no/2025/12/30/2025-blog-cleanup/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/12/30/2025-blog-cleanup/ AI-based help with cleaning my blog. After running this blog for over two decades, it was time for some serious housekeeping. I converted from WordPress to. https://www.arj.no/2025/12/28/audiovisual/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/12/28/audiovisual/ In this blog post, I advocate for avoiding the ambiguous term 'audiovisual' and instead using 'audio–video' for media and 'auditory–visual' for perception. https://www.arj.no/2025/12/27/stretchtext-llm/ Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/12/27/stretchtext-llm/ Stretchtext and LLMs. During a Christmas dinner, someone commented that many texts are too long these days and that it would be nice to have shorter versions. https://www.arj.no/2025/12/22/sensing-book/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/12/22/sensing-book/ Reflections on writing a textbook with AI. This semester, I have written a book with AI. I should emphasize the with in the previous sentence, because this has. https://www.arj.no/2025/12/21/dancing-musicking/ Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/12/21/dancing-musicking/ Dancing and Musicking. It is somewhat embarrassing that I did not "discover" it before, but I only recently realized a striking parallel between the terms. https://www.arj.no/2025/12/19/ai-realistic-photos/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/12/19/ai-realistic-photos/ AI-realistic Photos. One of my MUS2640 students asked which AI tool I had used to create the illustration on top of the textbook I have been developing for the. https://www.arj.no/2025/12/19/insta360-to-equirectangular/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/12/19/insta360-to-equirectangular/ Convert Insta360 .insp files to equirectangular projection on Ubuntu with FFmpeg. While writing the blog post on AI-realistic photos, I wanted to include one. https://www.arj.no/2025/09/14/design-protocol-method/ Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/09/14/design-protocol-method/ A brief guide to clarify the differences between research design, protocol, and methods—three key concepts often confused by students beginning their research journey. https://www.arj.no/2025/09/13/mus2640-oblig2/ Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/09/13/mus2640-oblig2/ Summary of students' experiences creating and interpreting spectrograms: comparing linear and logarithmic frequency scales, software navigation, time–frequency trade-offs (FFT window sizes), and common interpretation challenges (tonal vs. percussive features). https://www.arj.no/2025/09/13/mus2640-h25-soundscapes/ Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/09/13/mus2640-h25-soundscapes/ A summary of an assignment where students explored soundscapes by listening, recording, and reflecting on everyday sounds. The post highlights their chosen environments, recording technologies, observations, and insights gained about sound awareness, technology limitations, and creative possibilities. https://www.arj.no/2025/09/03/music-tech-methods/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/09/03/music-tech-methods/ This blog post explores various methods used in music technology research. It discusses the importance of both qualitative and quantitative approaches, and highlights the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) framework to categorize different stages of technology development. https://www.arj.no/2025/08/29/trl/ Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/08/29/trl/ A concise overview of Technology Readiness Level (TRL), its origins, the nine-level scale, and how it is applied in research and industry to assess technology maturity. https://www.arj.no/2025/07/27/2025-ai-tools/ Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/07/27/2025-ai-tools/ My current use of AI tools for research. Over the past few weeks, I have read several newspaper articles and seen numerous social media postings from. https://www.arj.no/2025/07/26/vitruvian-analyzer/ Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/07/26/vitruvian-analyzer/ This post introduces a script that measures key body ratios from photos, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, and discusses the intersection of ancient ideals with modern pose estimation technology. https://www.arj.no/2025/07/25/exploring-kineshere/ Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/07/25/exploring-kineshere/ Exploring my kinesphere. This summer, I am working on completing my Still Standing book. One of the concepts I use is kinesphere. As far as I know, this term. https://www.arj.no/2025/07/11/zeb-duo-2022/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/07/11/zeb-duo-2022/ A reflection on improvising with two expressive electronic instruments—the Seaboard Grand and ContinuuMini—at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo. https://www.arj.no/2025/06/30/svg-cropping/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/06/30/svg-cropping/ Learn how to crop SVG images by editing the viewBox attribute directly in a text editor. This post explains a simple, code-based approach to removing unwanted whitespace from SVGs, with practical examples and tips for working with vector graphics. https://www.arj.no/2025/06/29/the-mishmash-emblem/ Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/06/29/the-mishmash-emblem/ The MishMash Emblem. I have previously written about the MishMash name. Some have also asked about the story behind the MishMash "emblem": The MishMash Bubble. https://www.arj.no/2025/06/28/summer2025/ Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/06/28/summer2025/ This is a description of the tripnote I made for the summer 2025 break. https://www.arj.no/2025/06/14/mishmash-name/ Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/06/14/mishmash-name/ MishMash – the name. Several people have asked about the story behind our name, MishMash. Some also wonder whether it is an acronym for something. It is not. https://www.arj.no/2025/06/12/mishmash-introduction/ Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/06/12/mishmash-introduction/ MishMash – A Short Introduction. Yesterday, we learned that MishMash has been funded. Many people are asking about our plans, so here is a quick overview based. https://www.arj.no/2025/06/11/mishmash-funded/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/06/11/mishmash-funded/ MishMash receives funding!. Yesterday, I received a brief phone call from the Research Council of Norway, where I was asked to come to UiO's University Library. https://www.arj.no/2025/04/03/project-challenges/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/04/03/project-challenges/ RITMO Project Challenge Case. At RITMO retreats we often use case studies to discuss relevant topics. I have blogged about some of these before: the Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2025/03/23/stairwaking-milan/ Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/03/23/stairwaking-milan/ The Rhythm of Stair Walking. On a visit to Milan, I came across a stair close to the famous Bosco Verticale that interested me. I passed these stairs several. https://www.arj.no/2025/03/18/nor-cam-ritmo/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/03/18/nor-cam-ritmo/ Reflections on implementing CoARA and NOR-CAM principles at RITMO, highlighting practical strategies for interdisciplinary research assessment, career development, and fostering a supportive academic culture. https://www.arj.no/2025/02/07/creativity-spirituality/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/02/07/creativity-spirituality/ I have been interested in creativity for some time but have not yet thought about the relationship to spirituality. Hence, I am writing this blog post to sort my thoughts. https://www.arj.no/2025/01/23/world-maps/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/01/23/world-maps/ Programmatically Make World Maps. I am working on RITMO's annual report for 2024. Typically, we include world maps showing where people at RITMO are coming. https://www.arj.no/2025/01/22/cc-by/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/01/22/cc-by/ Why Choose CC-BY Over CC-BY-NC-ND for Academic Publishing. Many researchers have requirements for publishing their articles Open Access. However, what that. https://www.arj.no/2025/01/15/mishmash-submitted/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/01/15/mishmash-submitted/ MishMash application submitted. Today we submitted the proposal "MishMash - Centre for AI & Creativity" to the Research Council of Norway's call for Norwegian. https://www.arj.no/2024/12/19/teaching-without-slides/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/12/19/teaching-without-slides/ Reflections on teaching a new musicology course using mind maps instead of traditional slides, combining music psychology and technology perspectives for undergraduate students. https://www.arj.no/2024/12/12/tedx/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/12/12/tedx/ Standing still at TEDx. This summer, I got a phone call from TEDx Arendal asking about whether I would like to hold a lecture for this year's event. Of course. https://www.arj.no/2024/11/29/exif-renaming/ Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/11/29/exif-renaming/ Renaming image files with date and time. In this post I write about how it is possible rename all the photos in a folder based on the date and time information. https://www.arj.no/2024/11/15/360-spatial-audio/ Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/11/15/360-spatial-audio/ Spatial audio from 360-degree cameras. I have been interested in 360-degree cameras for a long time. Earlier this year, we published a paper at SMC comparing. https://www.arj.no/2024/10/19/peer-review-problems/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/10/19/peer-review-problems/ Peer Review is Killing Science. Peer review is the gold standard for scientific work. Some people argue that the fact that an article has been peer-reviewed is. https://www.arj.no/2024/10/19/sms-e-mail/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/10/19/sms-e-mail/ Why I like SMS and e-mail. Yesterday, I wrote about why I don't like MS Teams. My frustration about this Microsoft product (or perhaps better, platform) could. https://www.arj.no/2024/10/18/ms-teams-problems/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/10/18/ms-teams-problems/ There are five reasons I dislike MS Teams: (1) No Linux support, (2) App-centric approach, (3) Cross-institution problems, (4) Insufficient search functionality, (5) Historyless approach https://www.arj.no/2024/10/16/egos/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/10/16/egos/ In today's opening lecture at the Workshop on Concert Research at RITMO, I talked about the concert research we have conducted over the last 20 years at the University of Oslo. https://www.arj.no/2024/09/17/piano-research/ Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/09/17/piano-research/ 20 years of piano research at the University of Oslo. We are fortunate to have received funding from UiO's infrastructure board to purchase a new Yamaha. https://www.arj.no/2024/09/11/concert-research/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/09/11/concert-research/ In today's opening lecture at the Workshop on Concert Research at RITMO, I talked about the concert research we have conducted over the last 20 years at the University of Oslo. https://www.arj.no/2024/09/06/embodied-musicking/ Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/09/06/embodied-musicking/ Embodied Musicking Technologies. This text was written for the festschrift for the symposium on 6 September 2024 celebrating Marc Leman's achievements as. https://www.arj.no/2024/08/13/music-technology-discipline/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/08/13/music-technology-discipline/ Music Technology as Scientific Disipline. Meeting some new bachelor's students today, I had to explain that "music technology" is not a thing, it is a. https://www.arj.no/2024/08/07/creativity/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/08/07/creativity/ Creativity. I have been pondering the term "creativity" lately. Creativity is a term that "everybody" knows but nobody manages to define. Here, I will describe. https://www.arj.no/2024/07/26/recording-audio/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/07/26/recording-audio/ Recording background and foreground audio. I am on vacation in Chile and exploring various techniques for recording sounds around me. I do some outdoor. https://www.arj.no/2024/07/17/stairwalking/ Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/07/17/stairwalking/ For et par uker siden kom tellekantrapporten. Hovedkonklusjonen er at tellekantsystemet i det hele har fungert etter planen, men at det er noen utfordringer. https://www.arj.no/2024/07/13/blog-descriptions/ Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/07/13/blog-descriptions/ Adding descriptions to my blog. I have generally been very happy about moving my blog to Hugo, except that I have struggled with getting it properly indexed. https://www.arj.no/2024/07/05/optimizing-jpg-png/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/07/05/optimizing-jpg-png/ Optimizing JPG and PNG files for the web. I often post images on the web but I rarely think about optimizing the files properly before uploading. Here is a. https://www.arj.no/2024/06/21/summer2024/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/06/21/summer2024/ This is a description of the tripnote I made for the summer 2024 break. https://www.arj.no/2024/06/15/360-video-comparison/ Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/06/15/360-video-comparison/ Comparing 360-degree cameras. Over the years, I have used several different 360-degree video cameras. They all behave differently, which makes it difficult to. https://www.arj.no/2024/06/13/paradata/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/06/13/paradata/ Data, Metadata and Paradata. I have had some interesting discussions about what constitutes metadata these days. What is really the difference between metadata. https://www.arj.no/2024/06/13/data-careers/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/06/13/data-careers/ New research data careers. There is an increasing focus on making data openly available, or at least archived according to the FAIR principles. This has also. https://www.arj.no/2024/05/23/data-born-fair/ Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/05/23/data-born-fair/ Data Born FAIR. At the last meeting of EUA’s Open Science Expert Group, we discussed the need for data to be “born” FAIR. What does that entail? FAIR data Just. https://www.arj.no/2024/05/10/sonic-design/ Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/05/10/sonic-design/ New Anthology: Sonic Design - Explorations Between Art and Science. I am happy to announce the publication of the anthology Sonic Design- Explorations Between. https://www.arj.no/2024/04/27/author-year-citations/ Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/04/27/author-year-citations/ Author-year citations are easier to read. I have previously written about why I dislike footnotes. Here, I explain why I dislike numbered citations. Numbered. https://www.arj.no/2024/04/21/open-culture/ Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/04/21/open-culture/ Open Culture vs Open Research. I have been an open research advocate for many years, but have not yet written much about open culture. In fact, I hadn't. https://www.arj.no/2024/04/11/method-methodology/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/04/11/method-methodology/ A methodology chapter is not a methods chapter. I notice that the two terms methods and methodology are often mixed up. It is actually quite simple to remember. https://www.arj.no/2024/03/18/copyright-challenges-fair-data/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/03/18/copyright-challenges-fair-data/ Key copyright challenges and recommendations for managing FAIR research data, based on experiences from the QualiFAIR competence hub at the University of Oslo. https://www.arj.no/2024/03/14/music-musical-performance/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/03/14/music-musical-performance/ Music Performance or Musical Performance?. I often find that people mix up the terms "music performance" and "musical performance". Which one is the correct. https://www.arj.no/2024/03/12/poster-presentations/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/03/12/poster-presentations/ Tips for poster presentations. Recently, I shared some tips for conference presentations. Today, I'll focus on conference poster presentations, a format that. https://www.arj.no/2024/03/10/conference-presentations/ Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/03/10/conference-presentations/ Tips for conference presentations. The doctoral and postdoctoral research fellows sent a questionnaire to the PIs at RITMO the other day. The aim was to. https://www.arj.no/2024/01/23/professor-standstill/ Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/01/23/professor-standstill/ Professor Standstill. NRK has created a photo report based on my still standing project that I carried out last year. It’s a bit comical that they’ve called me. https://www.arj.no/2024/01/01/sonic-rhythms/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/01/01/sonic-rhythms/ A Year of Sonic Rhythms. Yesterday, I completed my year-long StillStanding project. This was my second year-long project. In 2022, I recorded one sound action. https://www.arj.no/2023/12/31/365-days-standing-still/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/12/31/365-days-standing-still/ 365 Days of Still Standing. Today is New Year's Eve, and I have done my 365th standstill of the year. I began my year-long StillStanding project on 1 January. https://www.arj.no/2023/11/23/chatgpt-bio/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/11/23/chatgpt-bio/ Using ChatGPT to shorten my bio. I continue exploring how ChatGPT can be used meaningfully in my daily life. Today, I have looked at how it can help me rewrite. https://www.arj.no/2023/11/06/fair-data-education/ Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/11/06/fair-data-education/ FAIR data as an enabler for research-led education. As part of my duties as a Norwegian member of EUA's Open Science Expert Group, I was asked to write an. https://www.arj.no/2023/10/25/length-vs-duration/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/10/25/length-vs-duration/ Length vs Duration. I often see that people confuse the two terms "length" and "duration". In most cases, it doesn't matter, but there are subtle differences. https://www.arj.no/2023/10/21/chatgpt-chords/ Sat, 21 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/10/21/chatgpt-chords/ Can ChatGPT write musical chords?. ChatGPT cannot play sounds, but since it is trained on vast amounts of text from the internet, it also scraped numerous. https://www.arj.no/2023/10/09/converting-ambisonics-files-to-binaural-audio/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/10/09/converting-ambisonics-files-to-binaural-audio/ Converting Ambisonics files to Binaural audio. Ambisonics is a full-sphere surround sound format that captures audio from all directions using spherical. https://www.arj.no/2023/09/26/which-image-format-should-i-use/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/09/26/which-image-format-should-i-use/ Which image format should I use?. Many image file formats exist, but which ones are better for what task? Here is a quick overview in my little series of PhD. https://www.arj.no/2023/09/22/open-innovation-reflections/ Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/09/22/open-innovation-reflections/ Reflections on Open Innovation. I have been challenged to talk about innovation in the light of Open Research today. This blog post is a write-up of some ideas. https://www.arj.no/2023/09/21/defense-tips/ Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/09/21/defense-tips/ Tips for a public PhD defense. Yesterday, I gave some PhD dissertation advice. Today, I will present some tips for PhD candidates ready for public defense. In. https://www.arj.no/2023/09/21/dissertation-advice/ Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/09/21/dissertation-advice/ What should a PhD dissertation look like?. I am supervising several PhD fellows at the moment and have found that I repeat myself in the one-to-one meetings. https://www.arj.no/2023/08/07/transparent-circles/ Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/08/07/transparent-circles/ Making image parts transparent in Python. As part of my year-long StillStanding project, I post an average image of the spherical video recordings on Mastodon. https://www.arj.no/2023/08/02/ffprobe-folders/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/08/02/ffprobe-folders/ Finding duration and pixel dimensions for a bunch of video files. As part of my StillStanding project I need to handle a lot of video files on a daily basis. https://www.arj.no/2023/07/05/note-tone/ Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/07/05/note-tone/ A note is not a tone. I often come across texts that confuse the concepts of notes and tones. Thus this little blog post that I can refer people when. https://www.arj.no/2023/07/05/videogram-averaging/ Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/07/05/videogram-averaging/ Horizontal and Vertical Averaging is not the same. For my year-long StillStanding project I am generating videograms for all the scenes. Since there is not. https://www.arj.no/2023/07/04/audio-video/ Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/07/04/audio-video/ Sound and Light vs Audio and Video. People often refer to "sound and video" as a concept pair. That is confusing because, in my thinking, "sound" and "video". https://www.arj.no/2023/07/01/half-year-standing-still/ Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/07/01/half-year-standing-still/ Half a year of standing still. Today, I am halfway through my year-long StillStanding project. Not so much has changed since I summed up the first 100 days. I. https://www.arj.no/2023/06/30/explanatory-tripnote/ Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/06/30/explanatory-tripnote/ Tripnote Summar 2023. I read somewhere (but never stored the link) that people should add a more lengthy description in their trip notes (or vacation messages. https://www.arj.no/2023/06/23/ventilation-noise-in-my-office/ Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/06/23/ventilation-noise-in-my-office/ The ventilation system in my office. I'm sitting in my office, listening to the noisy ventilation system that inspired my AMBIENT project. Here is a short. https://www.arj.no/2023/06/19/barefoot-shoes/ Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/06/19/barefoot-shoes/ Wearing Barefoot Shoes. I have used "barefoot shoes" for more than a decade. Only occasionally, I wear something else. It started with a pair of Vibram five. https://www.arj.no/2023/06/12/jupyter-conda/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/06/12/jupyter-conda/ Running a Jupyter Notebook in Conda Environment. I have been running Python-based Jupyter Notebooks for some time but never thought about using environments. https://www.arj.no/2023/06/08/oddly-ticking-clock/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/06/08/oddly-ticking-clock/ Oddly ticking clock. Today, I stood still in a meeting room with an oddly ticking clock. This was part of my annual StillStanding project which is documented. https://www.arj.no/2023/06/07/confession-case-study/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/06/07/confession-case-study/ Confession Case Study. I have previously written about the coauthorship exercise that we use at RITMO workshops when we have new groups of doctoral and. https://www.arj.no/2023/06/06/nor-cam-cv/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/06/06/nor-cam-cv/ Reformatting my CV according to the NOR-CAM Principles. I was involved in the development of NOR-CAM (Norwegian Career Assessment Matrix) a couple of years ago. https://www.arj.no/2023/06/02/coauthorship-exercise/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/06/02/coauthorship-exercise/ Coauthorship Exercise. I have previously written about the different publication cultures at RITMO. This includes different coauthorship traditions between our. https://www.arj.no/2023/05/28/gopro-max-keyframes/ Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/05/28/gopro-max-keyframes/ Understanding Keyframes in GoPro Max Recordings. I use a GoPro Max 360-degree camera in my annual StillStanding project. This has given me plenty of Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2023/05/26/art-of-flying/ Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/05/26/art-of-flying/ The Art of Flying. I participated in the conference The Aesthetics of Absence in Music of the Twenty-First Century at the Department of Musicology the last. https://www.arj.no/2023/05/25/gopro-max-file-format/ Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/05/25/gopro-max-file-format/ Understanding the GoPro Max' File Formats. I use a GoPro Max 360-degree camera in my annual StillStanding project. That means that I also have had an excellent. https://www.arj.no/2023/05/20/skipping-frames/ Sat, 20 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/05/20/skipping-frames/ The effect of skipping frames for video visualization. I have been exploring different video visualizations as part of my annual stillstanding project. Some of. https://www.arj.no/2023/05/10/musique-de-table/ Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/05/10/musique-de-table/ Visualization of Musique de Table. Musique de Table is a wonderful piece written by Thierry de Mey. I have seen it performed live several times, and here came. https://www.arj.no/2023/05/07/publication-culture/ Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/05/07/publication-culture/ Different Publication Cultures. At RITMO, we have several different disciplines working together. The three core disciplines at RITMO are musicology Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2023/05/07/being-a-professor/ Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/05/07/being-a-professor/ On Being a Professor. What does a professor do? Children often ask good questions, and this one came from my youngest daughter while I was sitting in front of. https://www.arj.no/2023/04/10/100-days-of-standing-still/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/04/10/100-days-of-standing-still/ 100 Days and Still Standing. Today marks the 100th day of my annual StillStanding project. In this blog post, I summarize some of my experiences so far. https://www.arj.no/2023/04/10/pdf-metadata/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/04/10/pdf-metadata/ Editing PDF metadata. Sometimes it is necessary to check, remove or modify the metadata of PDF files. Here is a quick post to show how it can be done in the. https://www.arj.no/2023/04/01/visualizing-360-photos/ Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/04/01/visualizing-360-photos/ Making 2D Images from 360-degree Videos. For my annual Still Standing project, I am recording 360 videos with audio and sensor data while standing still for 10. https://www.arj.no/2023/03/21/sound-and-audio/ Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/03/21/sound-and-audio/ Sound vs Audio. What is the difference between sound and audio? I often hear people confuse the terms. Here are a couple of ways of thinking about the. https://www.arj.no/2023/02/22/gopro-flickering/ Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/02/22/gopro-flickering/ Remove GoPro Flickering. I use a GoPro Max 360-degree camera for my daily Still Standing recordings. Unfortunately, I discovered too late that the camera's. https://www.arj.no/2023/01/13/musicking-technologies/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/01/13/musicking-technologies/ Musicking Technologies. One of the conclusions in my book Sound Actions is that the future of music technologies lie in musicking technologies. The term "music. https://www.arj.no/2023/01/13/new-pupillometry-mooc/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/01/13/new-pupillometry-mooc/ New MOOC: Pupillometry – The Eye as a Window Into the Mind. I am happy to announce a new online course from RITMO: Pupillometry – The Eye as a Window Into the. https://www.arj.no/2023/01/12/mgt-workshop-dsd2023/ Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/01/12/mgt-workshop-dsd2023/ Running a workshop with a Jupyter Notebook presentation. Today, I ran a workshop called Video Visualization together with RITMO research assistant Joachim. https://www.arj.no/2023/01/03/testing-phone-directions/ Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/01/03/testing-phone-directions/ Testing Mobile Phone Motion Sensors. For my annual Still Standing project, I am recording sensor data from my mobile phone while standing still for 10 minutes. https://www.arj.no/2023/01/01/a-year-of-still-standing/ Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/01/01/a-year-of-still-standing/ 2023, A Year of Still Standing. Yesterday, I completed my 365 Sound Actions project, during which I recorded one sound action per day as part of preparing for. https://www.arj.no/2022/12/31/365-sound-actions/ Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/12/31/365-sound-actions/ 365 Sound Actions. 1 January this year, I set out to record one sound action per day. The idea was to test out the action–sound theory from my book Sound. https://www.arj.no/2022/12/30/adding-title-author-jupyter-notebook/ Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/12/30/adding-title-author-jupyter-notebook/ Adding Title and Author to PDFs exported from Jupyter Notebook. I am doing some end of the year cleaning on my hard drive and just uploaded the Jupyter. https://www.arj.no/2022/12/22/object-action-context/ Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/12/22/object-action-context/ An object-action-context approach to writing alt text. I came across an interesting blog post by Alex Chen on how to write better image descriptions for web. https://www.arj.no/2022/12/21/libreoffice-draw-scripting/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/12/21/libreoffice-draw-scripting/ Scripting image exports with LibreOffice Draw. As mentioned yesterday, the source files for the illustrations in my Sound Actions book are available on GitHub. https://www.arj.no/2022/12/20/open-sourcing-sound-actions/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/12/20/open-sourcing-sound-actions/ Open Sourcing My Sound Actions Book. Last week, my book was published by the MIT Press, and I am happy to announce that the source code is available on GitHub. https://www.arj.no/2022/12/16/youwrite-exploration/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/12/16/youwrite-exploration/ Exploring Essay Writing with You.com. There has been much discussion about ChatGPT recently, a chat robot that can write meaningful answers to questions. I. https://www.arj.no/2022/12/14/unused-images/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/12/14/unused-images/ Cleaning up image folders on my blog. I am still in the process of transitioning my blog from WordPress to Hugo. The content has been moved, but I see that. https://www.arj.no/2022/12/13/sound-actions-published/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/12/13/sound-actions-published/ New Book: Sound Actions - Conceptualizing Musical Instruments. I am happy to announce that my book Sound Actions - Conceptualizing Musical Instruments is now. https://www.arj.no/2022/12/09/optimizing-jpeg-files/ Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/12/09/optimizing-jpeg-files/ Optimizing JPEG files. I have previously written about how to resize all the images in a folder. That script was based on lossy compression of the files. https://www.arj.no/2022/12/01/new-disciplinarity-figure/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/12/01/new-disciplinarity-figure/ A new figure of the disciplinarities: intra, cross, multi, inter, trans. Back in 2012, I published what has become my (by far) most-read blog post Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2022/12/01/moving-from-wordpress-to-hugo/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/12/01/moving-from-wordpress-to-hugo/ Moving from WordPress to Hugo. I have been running my blog with a self-hosted WordPress install for almost two decades, and I finally decided to move to a. https://www.arj.no/2022/11/21/explaining-nor-cam/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/11/21/explaining-nor-cam/ Explaining the Norwegian Career Assessment Matrix (NOR-CAM). The Norwegian Career Assessment Matrix (NOR-CAM) is a toolbox for recognition and rewards in. https://www.arj.no/2022/11/19/leaving-twitter/ Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/11/19/leaving-twitter/ Leaving Twitter. Today, I decided to leave Twitter. I have been in doubt for a while; I wanted to see how the platform would develop after Musk's take-over. https://www.arj.no/2022/09/18/convert-heic-photos-to.jpg/ Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/09/18/convert-heic-photos-to.jpg/ Convert HEIC photos to JPEG. A quick note-to-self about how I managed to download a bunch of photos from an iPhone and convert them to.jpg on my laptop running. https://www.arj.no/2022/09/05/starting-ambient/ Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/09/05/starting-ambient/ Starting up the AMBIENT project. Today, I am starting up my new research project AMBIENT: Bodily Entrainment to Audiovisual Rhythms. I have recruited a great. https://www.arj.no/2022/08/24/still-standing-manuscript/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/08/24/still-standing-manuscript/ Still Standing Manuscript in Preparation. I sent off the final proofs for my Sound Actions book before the summer. I don't know when it will actually be. https://www.arj.no/2022/08/13/odt-to-docx/ Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/08/13/odt-to-docx/ Convert a folder of LibreOffice .ODT files to .DOCX files. I don't spend much time in traditional "word processors", but when I do, it is usually in Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2022/08/09/ffmpeg-fade-in-fade-out/ Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/08/09/ffmpeg-fade-in-fade-out/ Add fade-in and fade-out programmatically with FFmpeg. There is always a need to add fade-in and fade-out to audio tracks. Here is a way of doing it for a. https://www.arj.no/2022/08/07/recording-phone-lying-still/ Sun, 07 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/08/07/recording-phone-lying-still/ Analyzing Recordings of a Mobile Phone Lying Still. What is the background "noise" in the sensors of a mobile phone? In the fourMs Lab, we have a tradition of. https://www.arj.no/2022/07/17/mountain-walking/ Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/07/17/mountain-walking/ Video visualizations of mountain walking. After exploring some visualizations of kayaking, I was eager to see how a similar approach could work for walking. On. https://www.arj.no/2022/07/13/kayaking/ Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/07/13/kayaking/ Kayak motion analysis with video-based horizon leveling. Last year, I wrote about video-based motion analysis of kayaking. Those videos were recorded with a. https://www.arj.no/2022/07/13/ffmpeg-highpass/ Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/07/13/ffmpeg-highpass/ Removing audio hum using a highpass filter in FFmpeg. Today, I recorded Sound Action 194 - Rolling Dice as part of my year-long sound action project. The idea. https://www.arj.no/2022/07/08/open-research-blogging/ Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/07/08/open-research-blogging/ Blogging as an Open Research Strategy. There is much focus on Open Data these days, an important part of the Open Research "puzzle". A much less talked about. https://www.arj.no/2022/06/16/export-images-from-a-pdf-file/ Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/06/16/export-images-from-a-pdf-file/ Export images from a PDF file. I have previously written about how to export each of the pages of a PDF file as an image. That works well for, for example. https://www.arj.no/2022/06/11/adding-subtitles-to-videos/ Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/06/11/adding-subtitles-to-videos/ Adding subtitles to videos. In my ever-growing collection of FFmpeg-related blog posts, I will today show how to add subtitles to videos. These tricks are. https://www.arj.no/2022/05/13/em-dash-not-hyphen/ Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/05/13/em-dash-not-hyphen/ Em-dash is not a hyphen. I have been doing quite a lot of manuscript editing recently and realize that many people—including academics—don't. https://www.arj.no/2022/05/10/sound-design/ Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/05/10/sound-design/ Sound Design vs Sonic Design. What is the difference between "sound design" and "sonic design"? This is one of the many questions I have pondered while. https://www.arj.no/2022/05/07/running-a-disputation-on-youtube/ Sat, 07 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/05/07/running-a-disputation-on-youtube/ Running a disputation on YouTube. Last week, Ulf Holbrook defended his dissertation at RITMO. I was in charge of streaming the disputation, and here are some. https://www.arj.no/2022/04/13/resizing-image-folder/ Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/04/13/resizing-image-folder/ Programmatically resizing a folder of images. This is a note to self about how to programmatically resize and crop many images using ImageMagick. It all. https://www.arj.no/2022/03/31/merge-multiple-mp4-files/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/03/31/merge-multiple-mp4-files/ Merge multiple MP4 files. I have been doing several long recordings with GoPro cameras recently. The cameras automatically split the recordings into 4GB files. https://www.arj.no/2022/03/07/digital-competency/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/03/07/digital-competency/ Digital competency. What are the digital competencies needed in the future? Our head of department has challenged me to talk about this topic at an internal. https://www.arj.no/2022/02/16/completing-the-micro-project/ Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/02/16/completing-the-micro-project/ Completing the MICRO project. I wrote up the final report on the project MICRO - Human Bodily Micromotion in Music Perception and Interaction before Christmas. https://www.arj.no/2022/02/12/edit-video-rotation-metadata-in-ffmpeg/ Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/02/12/edit-video-rotation-metadata-in-ffmpeg/ Edit video rotation metadata in FFmpeg. I am recording a lot of short videos these days for my sound actions project. Sometimes the recordings end up being. https://www.arj.no/2022/02/09/recruiting-for-the-ambient-project/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/02/09/recruiting-for-the-ambient-project/ Recruiting for the AMBIENT project. I am happy to announce that I am recruiting for my new research project AMBIENT: Bodily Entrainment to Audiovisual Rhythms. https://www.arj.no/2022/02/06/musiclab-receives-danish-p2-prisen/ Sun, 06 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/02/06/musiclab-receives-danish-p2-prisen/ MusicLab receives Danish P2 Prisen. Yesterday, I was in Copenhagen to receive the Danish Broadcasting Company's P2 Prisen for "event of the year". The prize. https://www.arj.no/2022/02/04/the-status-of-fair/ Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/02/04/the-status-of-fair/ The status of FAIR in higher education. I participated in the closing event of the FAIRsFAIR project last week. For that, I was asked to share thoughts on the. https://www.arj.no/2022/02/03/different-169-format-resolutions/ Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/02/03/different-169-format-resolutions/ Different 16:9 format resolutions. I often have to convert between different resolutions of videos and images and always forget the pixel dimensions that. https://www.arj.no/2022/01/31/one-month-of-sound-actions/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/01/31/one-month-of-sound-actions/ One month of sound actions. One month has passed of the year and my sound action project. I didn't know how it would develop when I started and have found it. https://www.arj.no/2022/01/28/preparing-videos-for-futurelearn-courses/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/01/28/preparing-videos-for-futurelearn-courses/ Preparing videos for FutureLearn courses. This week we started up our new online course, Motion Capture: The Art of Studying Human Activity, and we are also. https://www.arj.no/2022/01/09/frame-differencing-with-ffmpeg/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/01/09/frame-differencing-with-ffmpeg/ Frame differencing with FFmpeg. I often want to create motion videos, that is, videos that only show what changed between frames. Such videos are nice to look. https://www.arj.no/2022/01/07/new-online-course-motion-capture/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/01/07/new-online-course-motion-capture/ New online course: Motion Capture. After two years in the making, I am happy to finally introduce our new online course: Motion Capture: The art of studying. https://www.arj.no/2022/01/07/try-not-to-headbang-challenge/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/01/07/try-not-to-headbang-challenge/ Try not to headbang challenge. I recently came across a video of the so-called Try not to headbang challenge, where the idea is to, well, not to headbang while. https://www.arj.no/2022/01/01/a-year-of-sound-actions/ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/01/01/a-year-of-sound-actions/ 2022, a Year of Sound Actions. Over the last few years, I have worked on a book project with the working title Sound Actions. The manuscript has been through. https://www.arj.no/2021/12/21/ffmpeg-v360-processing/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/12/21/ffmpeg-v360-processing/ Pre-processing Garmin VIRB 360 recordings with FFmpeg. I have previously written about how it is possible to "flatten" a Ricoh Theta+ recording using FFmpeg. https://www.arj.no/2021/12/21/no-elsevier-reviewing/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/12/21/no-elsevier-reviewing/ Why I Don't Review for Elsevier Journals. This blog post is written to have a URL to send to Elsevier editors that ask me to review for their journals. I have. https://www.arj.no/2021/12/19/rendering-4-channel-to-binaural-audio/ Sun, 19 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/12/19/rendering-4-channel-to-binaural-audio/ Rendering 4-channel to binaural audio. I had a period in the early 2000s when I made a few pieces in the genre of electroacoustic music ("tape music"). One of. https://www.arj.no/2021/12/17/flamenco-video-analysis/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/12/17/flamenco-video-analysis/ Flamenco video analysis. I continue my testing of the new Musical Gestures Toolbox for Python. One thing is to use the toolbox on controlled recordings with. https://www.arj.no/2021/12/15/kayaking-motion-analysis/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/12/15/kayaking-motion-analysis/ Kayaking motion analysis. Like many others, I bought a kayak during the pandemic, and I have had many nice trips in the Oslo fiord over the last year. Working. https://www.arj.no/2021/12/12/good-enough-open-music-research/ Sun, 12 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/12/12/good-enough-open-music-research/ New article: Best versus Good Enough Practices for Open Music Research. After a fairly long publication process, I am happy to finally announce a new paper. https://www.arj.no/2021/12/08/ritmo-code-of-conduct-updated/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/12/08/ritmo-code-of-conduct-updated/ Updated version of RITMO's code of conduct. At the first "Tour de RITMO", a retreat for the whole centre, we had a group work session that resulted in the. https://www.arj.no/2021/11/27/new-book-chapter-gestures-in-ensemble-performance/ Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/11/27/new-book-chapter-gestures-in-ensemble-performance/ New Book Chapter: Gestures in ensemble performance. I am happy to announce that Cagri Erdem and I have written a chapter titled "Gestures in ensemble. https://www.arj.no/2021/11/19/smc-evaluation/ Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/11/19/smc-evaluation/ Rigorous Empirical Evaluation of Sound and Music Computing Research. At the NordicSMC conference last week, I was part of a panel discussing the topic Rigorous. https://www.arj.no/2021/11/17/preparing-video-for-matlab-analysis/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/11/17/preparing-video-for-matlab-analysis/ Preparing video for Matlab analysis. Typical video files, such as MP4 files with H.264 compression, are usually small in size and with high visual quality. https://www.arj.no/2021/11/13/releasing-the-musical-gestures-toolbox-for-python/ Sat, 13 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/11/13/releasing-the-musical-gestures-toolbox-for-python/ Releasing the Musical Gestures Toolbox for Python. After several years in the making, we finally "released" the Musical Gestures Toolbox for Python at the. https://www.arj.no/2021/11/12/hub-based-conference/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/11/12/hub-based-conference/ Practical lessons and tips for running a hub-based hybrid conference, covering camera and audio setup, screen layout, interaction management, and social/organizational considerations. https://www.arj.no/2021/11/10/quotation-marks/ Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/11/10/quotation-marks/ How to use quotation marks in academic writing. Quotation marks are used for different things in texts. Sometimes they are used to mark actual quotations. https://www.arj.no/2021/10/27/video-rotation/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/10/27/video-rotation/ Rotate video using FFmpeg. Here is another FFmpeg-related blog post, this time to explain how to rotate a video using the command-line tool FFmpeg. There are. https://www.arj.no/2021/10/26/cropvideo/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/10/26/cropvideo/ Crop video files with FFmpeg. I have previously written about how to trim video files with FFmpeg. It is also easy to crop a video file. Here is a short how-to. https://www.arj.no/2021/10/26/musiclab-copenhagen/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/10/26/musiclab-copenhagen/ MusicLab Copenhagen. After nearly three years of planning, we can finally welcome people to MusicLab Copenhagen. This is a unique "science concert" involving. https://www.arj.no/2021/10/19/resource-intensive-open-research/ Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/10/19/resource-intensive-open-research/ Is Open Research more Resource-Intensive?. I have presented my thoughts on Open Research at many different institutions and for various groups over the last. https://www.arj.no/2021/10/18/from-open-research-to-science-2-0/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/10/18/from-open-research-to-science-2-0/ From Open Research to Science 2.0. Earlier today, I presented at the national open research conference Hvordan endres forskningshverdagen når åpen forskning. https://www.arj.no/2021/10/13/converting-a-wav-file-to-avi/ Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/10/13/converting-a-wav-file-to-avi/ Converting a .WAV file to .AVI. Sometimes, there is a need to convert an audio file into a blank video file with an audio track. This can be useful if you are. https://www.arj.no/2021/10/12/arts-humanities-infrastructures/ Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/10/12/arts-humanities-infrastructures/ I have just been involved in a new committee that will advise on national research infrastructure in Norway. I guess my appointment to this committee is partly based on my experience with building up a medium-sized infrastructure on my own, the fourMs Lab. https://www.arj.no/2021/10/02/travelling-only-with-a-mobile-phone/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/10/02/travelling-only-with-a-mobile-phone/ Travelling only with a mobile phone. I usually travel with my laptop. There is always some e-mails to write, some documents to read and comment on, or some. https://www.arj.no/2021/09/22/can-ai-replace-humans/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/09/22/can-ai-replace-humans/ Can AI replace humans?. Or, more specifically: can AI replace an artist? That is the question posed in a short documentary that I have contributed to for this. https://www.arj.no/2021/09/20/solid-research/ Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/09/20/solid-research/ More research should be solid instead of novel. Novelty is often highlighted as the most important criterion for getting research funding. That a manuscript is. https://www.arj.no/2021/09/17/another-hybrid-disputation/ Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/09/17/another-hybrid-disputation/ Running a hybrid disputation in a Zoom Webinar. I have been running the disputation of Guilherme Schmidt Câmara today. At RITMO, we have accepted that "hybrid. https://www.arj.no/2021/09/07/open-research-puzzle-illustration/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/09/07/open-research-puzzle-illustration/ Open Research puzzle illustration. It is challenging to find good illustrations to use in presentations and papers. For that reason, I hope to help others by. https://www.arj.no/2021/08/19/employee-web-pages/ Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/08/19/employee-web-pages/ Why universities should care about employee web pages. Earlier this year, I wrote about my 23 tips to improve your web presence. Those tips were meant to. https://www.arj.no/2021/08/12/soft-drop-shadows-in-libreoffice-draw/ Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/08/12/soft-drop-shadows-in-libreoffice-draw/ Soft drop shadows in LibreOffice Draw. My new book will be published Open Access, and I also aim only to use open-source tools as part of the writing process. https://www.arj.no/2021/08/10/musicking-quadrant/ Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/08/10/musicking-quadrant/ The Musicking Quadrant. I have been working on my new book (working title "Sound Actions") over the summer. It mainly focuses on instruments, and I have. https://www.arj.no/2021/07/23/manuscript-in-preparation/ Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/07/23/manuscript-in-preparation/ Sound Actions Manuscript in Preparation. Ever since I finished my dissertation in 2007, I have thought about writing it up as a book. Parts of the dissertation. https://www.arj.no/2021/07/16/nime-content/ Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/07/16/nime-content/ Structuring NIME content. The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) gathers researchers and musicians worldwide to share. https://www.arj.no/2021/07/10/universities-as-a-web/ Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/07/10/universities-as-a-web/ Reflections on university organizational structures, comparing matrix and web-like models, and exploring how network theory can inspire more flexible, interdisciplinary collaboration. https://www.arj.no/2021/07/08/non-linear-presentation-tools/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/07/08/non-linear-presentation-tools/ Some thoughts on non-linear presentation tools. Many people rely on what I will call linear presentation tools when they lecture. This includes software such. https://www.arj.no/2021/07/01/sound-and-music-computing-at-uio/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/07/01/sound-and-music-computing-at-uio/ Sound and Music Computing at the University of Oslo. This year's Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Conference has opened for virtual lab tours. When we cannot. https://www.arj.no/2021/06/27/hybrid-conference/ Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/06/27/hybrid-conference/ Running a hybrid conference. There are many ways to run conferences. Here is a summary of how we ran the Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop 2021 at. https://www.arj.no/2021/06/27/zoom-webinar/ Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/06/27/zoom-webinar/ Running a successful Zoom Webinar. I have been involved in running some Zoom Webinars over the last year, culminating with the Rhythm Production and Perception. https://www.arj.no/2021/06/17/nime-environment/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/06/17/nime-environment/ New publication: NIME and the Environment. This week I presented the paper NIME and the Environment: Toward a More Sustainable NIME Practice at the Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2021/06/17/normalize-audio-in-video-files/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/06/17/normalize-audio-in-video-files/ Normalize audio in video files. We are organizing the Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop at RITMO next week. As mentioned in another blog post, we have. https://www.arj.no/2021/06/15/video-poster-images/ Tue, 15 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/06/15/video-poster-images/ Making 100 video poster images programmatically. We are organizing the Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop 2021 at RITMO a week from now. Like many other. https://www.arj.no/2021/06/14/ritmo-name/ Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/06/14/ritmo-name/ RITMO – the name. I am thrilled to read about RITMO in the latest Forskerforum, a magazine covering topics related to research, higher education, and academic. https://www.arj.no/2021/06/01/nor-cam/ Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/06/01/nor-cam/ Launching NOR-CAM – A toolbox for recognition and rewards in academic careers. What is the future of academic career assessment? How can open research. https://www.arj.no/2021/05/11/ffmpeg-audio-video/ Tue, 11 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/05/11/ffmpeg-audio-video/ Combining audio and video files with FFmpeg. When working with various types of video analysis, I often end up with video files without audio. So I need to add. https://www.arj.no/2021/04/26/strings-on-line-installation/ Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/04/26/strings-on-line-installation/ Strings On-Line installation. We presented the installation Strings On-Line at NIME 2020. It was supposed to be a physical installation at the conference to be. https://www.arj.no/2021/04/26/the-hybrid-university/ Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/04/26/the-hybrid-university/ The hybrid university. After a year of primarily online activities, we are slowly preparing for a new reality at the university. We will not go back to where. https://www.arj.no/2021/03/18/splitting-audio-files/ Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/03/18/splitting-audio-files/ Splitting audio files in the terminal. I have recently played with AudioStellar, a great tool for "sound object"-based exploration and musicking. It reminds me. https://www.arj.no/2021/03/17/23-tips-to-improve-your-web-presence/ Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/03/17/23-tips-to-improve-your-web-presence/ 23 tips to improve your web presence. I was challenged to say a few words about improving their personal web pages at the University of Oslo. This led to a. https://www.arj.no/2021/03/16/humanocracy/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/03/16/humanocracy/ Humanocracy in universities. I recently read an interesting book by Gary Hamel called Humanocracy, in which he argues for replacing traditional, top-down. https://www.arj.no/2021/03/11/what-is-a-musical-instrument/ Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/03/11/what-is-a-musical-instrument/ What is a musical instrument?. A piano is an instrument. So is a violin. But what about the voice? Or a fork? Or a mobile phone? So what is (really) a musical. https://www.arj.no/2021/03/10/matroska-container/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/03/10/matroska-container/ Moving to Matroska video containers. The go-to format for video these days is containers with h.264 compression. However, when we are working on video analysis. https://www.arj.no/2021/03/08/intimal-documentary/ Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/03/08/intimal-documentary/ INTIMAL Documentary. I think it is nice to share this new short documentary about the project INTIMAL: Interfaces for Relational Listening – Body, Memory. https://www.arj.no/2021/03/01/flatten-file-names/ Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/03/01/flatten-file-names/ Flatten file names in the terminal. I am often dealing with folders with lots of files with weird file names. Spaces, capital letters, and so on, often cause. https://www.arj.no/2021/02/10/microphones/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/02/10/microphones/ Some thoughts on microphones for streaming and recording. Many people have asked me about what types of microphones to use for streaming and recording. This is. https://www.arj.no/2021/02/04/bach-prelude/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/02/04/bach-prelude/ Visualising a Bach prelude played on Boomwhackers. I came across a fantastic performance of a Bach prelude played on Boomwhackers by Les Objets Volants. https://www.arj.no/2021/01/28/drum-roll/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/01/28/drum-roll/ Analyzing a double stroke drum roll. Yesterday, PhD fellow Mojtaba Karbassi presented his research on impedance control in robotic drumming at RITMO. I will. https://www.arj.no/2021/01/26/archiving-research-activities/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/01/26/archiving-research-activities/ Some Thoughts on the Archival of Research Activities. Recently, I have been engaged in an internal discussion at the University of Oslo about our institutional. https://www.arj.no/2021/01/24/container-conversion/ Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/01/24/container-conversion/ Convert between video containers with FFmpeg. In my ever-growing collection of smart FFmpeg tricks, here is a way of converting from one container format to. https://www.arj.no/2021/01/22/new-run-of-music-moves/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/01/22/new-run-of-music-moves/ New run of Music Moves. I am happy to announce a new run (the 6th) of our free online course Music Moves: Why Does Music Make You Move?. Here is a 1-minute. https://www.arj.no/2021/01/07/plug-in-power-mics/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/01/07/plug-in-power-mics/ How to work with plug-in-power microphones. I have never thought about how so-called plug-in-power microphones actually work. Over the years, I have used. https://www.arj.no/2021/01/02/create-timelapse-video-from-images-with-ffmpeg/ Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/01/02/create-timelapse-video-from-images-with-ffmpeg/ Create timelapse video from images with FFmpeg. I take a lot of timelapse shots with a GoPro camera. Usually, I do this with the camera's photo setting instead. https://www.arj.no/2020/12/23/empathic-concern/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/12/23/empathic-concern/ New paper: Who Moves to Music? Empathic Concern Predicts Spontaneous Movement Responses to Rhythm and Music. A few days after Agata Zelechowska defended her. https://www.arj.no/2020/12/12/running-a-hybrid-disputation/ Sat, 12 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/12/12/running-a-hybrid-disputation/ Running a hybrid disputation on Zoom. Yesterday, I wrote about Agata Zelechowska's disputation. We decided to run it as a hybrid production, even though there. https://www.arj.no/2020/12/11/disputation-zelechowska/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/12/11/disputation-zelechowska/ PhD disputation of Agata Zelechowska. I am happy to announce that Agata Zelechowska yesterday successfully defended her PhD dissertation during a public. https://www.arj.no/2020/12/10/citizen-science-opportunities/ Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/12/10/citizen-science-opportunities/ Opportunities and Challenges with Citizen Science. Citizen Science is on everyone's lips these days, at least on the lips of people working in research. https://www.arj.no/2020/12/06/music-thumbnailing/ Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/12/06/music-thumbnailing/ Explores methods for creating concise music 'thumbnails'—time compression, evenly sampled excerpts, and saliency-based segments—illustrated with experiments on Ravel's Bolero. https://www.arj.no/2020/12/02/meeting-new-challenges/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/12/02/meeting-new-challenges/ Meeting New Challenges. Life is always full of challenges, but those challenges are also what drives personal development. I am constantly reminded about that. https://www.arj.no/2020/11/22/music-and-ai/ Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/11/22/music-and-ai/ Music and AI. Last week I was interviewed about music and artificial intelligence (AI). This led to several different stories on radio, TV, and as text. The. https://www.arj.no/2020/11/06/ffmpeg-tblend/ Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/11/06/ffmpeg-tblend/ Visual effect of the different tblend functions in FFmpeg. FFmpeg is a fantastic resource for doing all sorts of video manipulations from the terminal. https://www.arj.no/2020/10/30/musictestlab/ Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/10/30/musictestlab/ MusicTestLab as a Testbed of Open Research. Many people talk about "opening" the research process these days. Due to initiatives like Plan S, much has happened. https://www.arj.no/2020/09/08/chimpanzee-motiongrams/ Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/09/08/chimpanzee-motiongrams/ Motiongrams of rhythmic chimpanzee swaying. I came across a very interesting study on the Rhythmic swaying induced by sound in chimpanzees. The authors have. https://www.arj.no/2020/09/03/youtube-subtitles/ Thu, 03 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/09/03/youtube-subtitles/ Embed YouTube video with subtitles in different languages. This is primarily a note to self post, but could hopefully also be useful for others. At least, I. https://www.arj.no/2020/08/27/open-research/ Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/08/27/open-research/ Why is open research better research?. I am presenting at the Norwegian Forskerutdanningskonferansen on Monday, which is a venue for people involved in. https://www.arj.no/2020/08/26/how-long-is-a-nime-paper/ Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/08/26/how-long-is-a-nime-paper/ How long is a NIME paper?. Several people have argued that we should change from having a page limit (2/4/6 pages) for NIME paper submissions to a word limit. https://www.arj.no/2020/08/24/pdf-optimization/ Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/08/24/pdf-optimization/ Improving the PDF files in the NIME archive. This blog post summarizes my experimentation with improving the quality of the PDF files in the proceedings of the. https://www.arj.no/2020/08/23/compress-pdfs/ Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/08/23/compress-pdfs/ Shell script for compressing PDF files on Ubuntu. I have previously written about a shell script) for compressing PDF files in Ubuntu. Here are some variants. https://www.arj.no/2020/08/13/nime-ecosystem/ Thu, 13 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/08/13/nime-ecosystem/ NIME Publication Ecosystem Workshop. During the NIME conference this year (which as run entirely online due to the coronavirus crisis), I led a workshop called. https://www.arj.no/2020/04/22/headphones-or-speakers/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/04/22/headphones-or-speakers/ New publication: Headphones or Speakers? An Exploratory Study of Their Effects on Spontaneous Body Movement to Rhythmic Music. After several years of hard. https://www.arj.no/2020/03/22/method-chapter-freely-available/ Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/03/22/method-chapter-freely-available/ Method chapter freely available. I am a big supporter of Open Access publishing, but for various reasons some of my publications are not openly available by. https://www.arj.no/2020/03/20/pixel-array-images-of-long-videos-in-ffmpeg/ Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/03/20/pixel-array-images-of-long-videos-in-ffmpeg/ Pixel array images of long videos in FFmpeg. Continuing my explorations of FFmpeg for video visualization, today I came across this very nice blog post on. https://www.arj.no/2020/03/19/mpeg-2-to-mpeg-4/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/03/19/mpeg-2-to-mpeg-4/ Convert MPEG-2 files to MPEG-4. This is a note to self, and could potentially also be useful to others in need of converting "old-school" MPEG-2 files into. https://www.arj.no/2020/03/18/video-conferencing-tips/ Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/03/18/video-conferencing-tips/ Simple tips for better video conferencing. Very many people are currently moving to video-based meetings. For that reason I have written up some quick advise. https://www.arj.no/2020/03/15/360-flattening/ Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/03/15/360-flattening/ Flattening Ricoh Theta 360-degree videos using FFmpeg. I am continuing my explorations of the great terminal-based video tool FFmpeg. Now I wanted to see if I. https://www.arj.no/2020/03/09/videoanalysis/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/03/09/videoanalysis/ VideoAnalysis v2.0. I am happy to announce a new version of VideoAnalysis, a standalone application for OS X and Windows for creating visualizations and. https://www.arj.no/2020/03/01/keyframe-displays-ffmpeg/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/03/01/keyframe-displays-ffmpeg/ Creating different types of keyframe displays with FFmpeg. In some recent posts I have explored the creation of motiongrams and average images, multi-exposure. https://www.arj.no/2020/02/21/image-masks/ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/02/21/image-masks/ Creating image masks from video file. As part of my exploration in creating multi-exposure keyframe image displays with FFmpeg and ImageMagick, I tried out a. https://www.arj.no/2020/02/21/keyframe-displays/ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/02/21/keyframe-displays/ Creating multi-exposure keyframe image displays with FFmpeg and ImageMagick. While I was testing visualization of some videos from the AIST database earlier. https://www.arj.no/2020/02/21/aist-visualizations/ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/02/21/aist-visualizations/ Visualizing some videos from the AIST Dance Video Database. Researchers from AIST have released an open database of dance videos, and I got very excited to try. https://www.arj.no/2020/02/14/camera-microphone/ Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/02/14/camera-microphone/ Testing simple camera and microphone setups for quick interviews. We just started a new run of our free online course Music Moves. Here we have a tradition of. https://www.arj.no/2020/01/24/motiongram-of-high-speed-violin-bowing/ Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/01/24/motiongram-of-high-speed-violin-bowing/ Motiongram of high-speed violin bowing. I came across a high-speed recording of bowing on a violin string today, and thought it would be interesting to try to. https://www.arj.no/2020/01/09/podcast-on-open-research/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/01/09/podcast-on-open-research/ Podcast on Open Research. I was in Tromsø to hold a keynote lecture at the Munin conference a month ago, and was asked to contribute to a podcast they are. https://www.arj.no/2019/12/27/teaching-with-a-document-camera/ Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/12/27/teaching-with-a-document-camera/ Teaching with a document camera. How does an "old-school" document camera work for modern-day teaching? Remarkably well, I think. Here are some thoughts on my. https://www.arj.no/2019/11/29/pdf-to-images/ Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/11/29/pdf-to-images/ Creating individual image files from presentation slides. How do you create full-screen images from each of the slides of a Google Docs presentation without. https://www.arj.no/2019/11/29/munin-keynote/ Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/11/29/munin-keynote/ Keynote: Experimenting with Open Research Experiments. Yesterday I gave a keynote lecture at the Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing in Tromsø. This is an. https://www.arj.no/2019/11/17/some-tips-and-tricks-when-writing-academic-papers/ Sun, 17 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/11/17/some-tips-and-tricks-when-writing-academic-papers/ Some tips and tricks when writing academic papers. I have been teaching the course Research Methods, Tools and Issues in our MCT programme this semester. The. https://www.arj.no/2019/11/03/converting-mxf-files-to-mp4-with-ffmpeg/ Sun, 03 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/11/03/converting-mxf-files-to-mp4-with-ffmpeg/ Converting MXF files to MP4 with FFmpeg. We have a bunch of Canon XF105 at RITMO, a camera that records MXF files. This is not a particularly useful file. https://www.arj.no/2019/10/25/self-playing-guitars-in-tampere/ Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/10/25/self-playing-guitars-in-tampere/ Self-playing guitars in Tampere. Earlier this year we were in Tampere with the self-playing guitars, and performed at the Tampere Conservatory. Here is a small. https://www.arj.no/2019/10/23/interview-tips/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/10/23/interview-tips/ Tips for doing your job interview over Skype. I have been interviewing a lot of people for various types of university positions over the years. Most often. https://www.arj.no/2019/10/07/writing-tools/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/10/07/writing-tools/ What tools do I use for writing?. Earlier today I was asked about what tools I use when writing. This is not something I have written about here on the blog. https://www.arj.no/2019/09/28/ubuntu-hp-pavilion/ Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/09/28/ubuntu-hp-pavilion/ Installing Ubuntu on a HP Pavilion laptop. So I decided to install Ubuntu on my daughter's new laptop, more specifically an HP Pavilion. The choice of this. https://www.arj.no/2019/09/28/linux-for-kids/ Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/09/28/linux-for-kids/ Which Linux version to choose for a 9-year old?. My 9-year old daughter is getting her first laptop. But which OS should she get started with? I have been. https://www.arj.no/2019/09/13/creating-circular-thumbnails-in-the-terminal/ Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/09/13/creating-circular-thumbnails-in-the-terminal/ Creating circular thumbnails in the terminal. Circular pictures (like the one to the right) has become increasingly popular on the web. We have, for example. https://www.arj.no/2019/06/21/carpentries/ Fri, 21 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/06/21/carpentries/ Carpentries Train the Trainer. I have spent the two last days at a "Train the Trainers" workshop organized by the Carpentries project. Here I will summarize. https://www.arj.no/2019/06/07/workshop-open-nime/ Fri, 07 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/06/07/workshop-open-nime/ Workshop: Open NIME. This week I led the workshop "Open Research Strategies and Tools in the NIME Community" at NIME 2019 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. We had a. https://www.arj.no/2019/06/06/nime-vrengt/ Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/06/06/nime-vrengt/ NIME publication and performance: Vrengt. My PhD student Cagri Erdem developed a performance together with dancer Katja Henriksen Schia. The piece was first. https://www.arj.no/2019/06/05/nime-mct/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/06/05/nime-mct/ NIME publication: NIME Prototyping in Teams: A Participatory Approach to Teaching Physical Computing. The MCT master's programme has been running for a year. https://www.arj.no/2019/05/30/smc2019/ Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/05/30/smc2019/ RaveForce: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Environment for Music Generation. My PhD student Qichao Lan is at SMC in Malaga this week, presenting the paper: Lan. https://www.arj.no/2019/05/19/rotate-lots-of-image-on-ubuntu/ Sun, 19 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/05/19/rotate-lots-of-image-on-ubuntu/ Rotate lots of image on Ubuntu. I often find myself with a bunch of images that are not properly rotated. Many cameras write the rotation information to the. https://www.arj.no/2019/03/22/towards-convergence-in-research-assessment/ Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/03/22/towards-convergence-in-research-assessment/ Towards Convergence in Research Assessment. I have written a short article for the latest edition of LINK, the magazine of the European Association of Research. https://www.arj.no/2019/03/18/micro-education-is-the-future/ Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/03/18/micro-education-is-the-future/ Micro-education is the future. I have a commentary published in the Norwegian academic newspaper Khrono today with the title "Micro-education is the future". https://www.arj.no/2019/01/25/testing-reveal-js-for-teaching/ Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/01/25/testing-reveal-js-for-teaching/ Testing reveal.js for teaching. I was at NTNU in Trondheim today, teaching a workshop on motion capture methodologies for the students in the Choreomundus. https://www.arj.no/2019/01/22/music-moves-4-has-started/ Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2019/01/22/music-moves-4-has-started/ Music Moves #4 has started. We have just kicked off the fourth round of Music Moves, the free, online course we have developed at University of Oslo. The. https://www.arj.no/2018/12/23/why-i-am-positive-to-plan-s/ Sun, 23 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/12/23/why-i-am-positive-to-plan-s/ Why I am positive to Plan S. Plan S has been the biggest political topic in the research community here in Norway this fall. Several researchers have raised. https://www.arj.no/2018/12/22/open-research-vs-open-science/ Sat, 22 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/12/22/open-research-vs-open-science/ Open Research vs Open Science. Open Science is on everyone's lips these days. But why don't we use the term Open Research more? This is a question I have been. https://www.arj.no/2018/11/25/lecture-performance-setup/ Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/11/25/lecture-performance-setup/ Lecture-performance setup. I have not been very good at blogging recently, primarily because I have been so busy in starting up both RITMO and MCT. As things. https://www.arj.no/2018/11/25/flipped-classroom/ Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/11/25/flipped-classroom/ Reflecting on some flipped classroom strategies. I was invited to talk about my experiences with flipped classroom methodologies at a seminar at the Faculty of. https://www.arj.no/2018/11/25/sort-images/ Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/11/25/sort-images/ Sort images based on direction (portrait/landscape). I have lots and lots of photos on my computer (and servers!). Sometimes I have a pile of photos of which I. https://www.arj.no/2018/11/24/ritmo-code-of-conduct/ Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/11/24/ritmo-code-of-conduct/ Making a code of conduct for RITMO. We had our first retreat ("Tour de RITMO") at RITMO earlier this semester and spent some time getting to know each other. https://www.arj.no/2018/09/28/mgt/ Fri, 28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/09/28/mgt/ Musical Gestures Toolbox for Matlab. Yesterday I presented the Musical Gestures Toolbox for Matlab in the late-breaking demo session at the ISMIR conference in. https://www.arj.no/2018/08/17/moving-to-a-new-building/ Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/08/17/moving-to-a-new-building/ Moving to a new building. I have not been very good at blogging recently. This is not because nothing is happening, but rather because so much is happening. https://www.arj.no/2018/08/07/frontiers-standstill/ Tue, 07 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/08/07/frontiers-standstill/ New article: Correspondences Between Music and Involuntary Human Micromotion During Standstill. I am happy to announce a new journal article coming out of the. https://www.arj.no/2018/06/18/testing-blackmagic-web-presenter/ Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/06/18/testing-blackmagic-web-presenter/ Testing Blackmagic Web Presenter. We are rapidly moving towards the start of our new Master's programme Music, Communication & Technology. This is a unique. https://www.arj.no/2018/05/18/trimvideo/ Fri, 18 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/05/18/trimvideo/ Trim video files using FFmpeg. This is a note to self, and hopefully others, about how to easily and quickly trim videos without recompressing the file. I. https://www.arj.no/2018/03/12/nordicsmc/ Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/03/12/nordicsmc/ Nordic Sound and Music Computing Network up and running. I am super excited about our new Nordic Sound and Music Computing Network, which has just started up. https://www.arj.no/2018/01/18/analyzing-sound-tracings/ Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/01/18/analyzing-sound-tracings/ New Publication: Analyzing Free-Hand Sound-Tracings of Melodic Phrases. We have done several sound-tracing studies before at University of Oslo, and here is a. https://www.arj.no/2017/12/13/mct/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/12/13/mct/ Come study with me! New master''s programme: Music, Communication and Technology. It has been fairly quiet here on the blog recently. One reason for this is. https://www.arj.no/2017/12/13/ritmo-positions/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/12/13/ritmo-positions/ Come work with me! Lots of new positions at University of Oslo. I recently mentioned that I have been busy setting up the new MCT master's programme. But I. https://www.arj.no/2017/10/16/arduino2max/ Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/10/16/arduino2max/ Working with an Arduino Mega 2560 in Max. I am involved in a student project which uses some Arduino Mega 2560 sensor interfaces in an interactive device. It. https://www.arj.no/2017/10/09/ritmo/ Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/10/09/ritmo/ And we're off: RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion. I am happy to announce that RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies. https://www.arj.no/2017/09/11/sverm-resonans/ Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/09/11/sverm-resonans/ Sverm-Resonans - Installation at Ultima Contemporary Music Festival. I am happy to announce the opening of our new interactive art installation at the Ultima. https://www.arj.no/2017/07/20/smc-2017/ Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/07/20/smc-2017/ SMC paper based on data from the first Norwegian Championship of Standstill. We have been carrying out three editions of the Norwegian Championship of. https://www.arj.no/2017/07/15/group-behaviour-edm/ Sat, 15 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/07/15/group-behaviour-edm/ New article: Group behaviour and interpersonal synchronization to electronic dance music. I am happy to announce the publication of a follow-up study to our. https://www.arj.no/2017/06/22/new-master/ Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/06/22/new-master/ New Master''s Programme: Music, Communication & Technology. {.description .introduction} We are happy to announce that "Music, Communication & Technology" will. https://www.arj.no/2017/06/20/od-champion/ Tue, 20 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/06/20/od-champion/ European Open Data Champion. I am honoured to have been named European Open Data Champion by SPARC Europe. Below is an interview they have published about my. https://www.arj.no/2017/05/03/emr2016/ Wed, 03 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/05/03/emr2016/ New publication: Pleasurable and Intersubjectively Embodied Experiences of Electronic Dance Music.. {.csl-bib-body} {.csl-entry} I am happy to announce a new. https://www.arj.no/2017/05/03/new-publication-sonic-microinteraction-in-the-air/ Wed, 03 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/05/03/new-publication-sonic-microinteraction-in-the-air/ New publication: Sonic Microinteraction in the Air. I am happy to announce a new book chapter based on the artistic-scientific research in the Sverm and MICRO. https://www.arj.no/2017/04/13/micromotion/ Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/04/13/micromotion/ New publication: Exploring music-related micromotion. I am happy to announce the publication of a new anthology that I have contributed a chapter to Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2017/03/21/duration-length/ Tue, 21 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/03/21/duration-length/ The difference between duration and length. I see that many students (and even peers) confuse the two terms "duration" and "length". This blog post is. https://www.arj.no/2017/03/16/new-centre-of-excellence-ritmo/ Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/03/16/new-centre-of-excellence-ritmo/ New Centre of Excellence: RITMO. I am happy to announce that the Research Council of Norway has awarded funding to establish RITMO Centre of Excellence for. https://www.arj.no/2017/03/10/a-nime-reader/ Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/03/10/a-nime-reader/ New Anthology: A NIME Reader. I am happy to announce that Springer has now released a book that I have been co-editing with Michael J. Lyons: "A NIME Reader. https://www.arj.no/2017/02/19/surviving-with-only-android-for-a-week/ Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/02/19/surviving-with-only-android-for-a-week/ Surviving with only Android for a week?. Is it possible to "survive" with only using Android-based devices for a whole week? I have been using a Sony Xperia. https://www.arj.no/2017/02/05/music-moves-on-youtube/ Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/02/05/music-moves-on-youtube/ Music Moves on YouTube. We have been running our free online course Music Moves a couple of times on the FutureLearn platform. The course consists of a number. https://www.arj.no/2017/02/05/universities-as-matrix/ Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/02/05/universities-as-matrix/ Universities as a matrix organization. As Head of the Department of Musicology for the last four years, I have been acquainted with the inner workings of the. https://www.arj.no/2017/02/03/starting-up-micro/ Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/02/03/starting-up-micro/ Starting up the MICRO project. I am super excited about starting up my new project - MICRO - Human Bodily Micromotion in Music Perception and Interaction. https://www.arj.no/2017/01/03/move-windows-ubuntu/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/01/03/move-windows-ubuntu/ Move windows between screens on Ubuntu. As part of the fun of reinstalling an OS, you need to set up all the small things again (and you also get rid of all. https://www.arj.no/2017/01/03/nautilus-bookmarks/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/01/03/nautilus-bookmarks/ Remove standard bookmarks in Nautilus. Yet another note to self on how to fix things in Ubuntu after a fresh install, found at askubuntu, this time to remove. https://www.arj.no/2016/12/27/pdf-split/ Tue, 27 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/12/27/pdf-split/ Split PDF files easily using Ubuntu scripts. One of the fun parts of reinstalling an OS (yes, I think it is fun!), is to discover new software and new ways of. https://www.arj.no/2016/12/27/starting-afresh/ Tue, 27 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/12/27/starting-afresh/ Starting afresh. After four years as Head of Department (of Musicology at UiO), I am going back to my regular associate professor position in January. It has. https://www.arj.no/2016/12/15/fourms-phd/ Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/12/15/fourms-phd/ New PhD Fellowship in the fourMs group. {.vrtx-introduction} Come work with us in the fourMs group at University of Oslo: Doctoral Research Fellowship is. https://www.arj.no/2016/11/22/cima-impact/ Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/11/22/cima-impact/ From Basic Music Research to Medical Tool. The Research Council of Norway is evaluating the research being done in the humanities these days, and all. https://www.arj.no/2016/11/22/the-guild/ Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/11/22/the-guild/ Participating in the opening of The Guild. I participated in the opening of the Guild of Research Universities in Brussels yesterday. The Guild is a Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2016/09/07/smc2016/ Wed, 07 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/09/07/smc2016/ New SMC paper: Optical or Inertial? Evaluation of Two Motion Capture Systems for Studies of Dancing to Electronic Dance Music. My colleague Ragnhild Torvanger. https://www.arj.no/2016/07/15/virtualmonium/ Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/07/15/virtualmonium/ New NIME paper: The ''Virtualmonium'': an instrument for classical sound diffusion. The third NIME contribution from the fourMs lab this year was the paper. https://www.arj.no/2016/07/15/nime-reader/ Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/07/15/nime-reader/ New NIME paper: Trends at NIME – Reflections on Editing ''A NIME Reader''. Michael J. Lyons and myself have been working on an edited collection of papers from. https://www.arj.no/2016/07/15/nimehub/ Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/07/15/nimehub/ New paper: NIMEhub: Toward a Repository for Sharing and Archiving Instrument. At NIME we have a large archive of the conference proceedings, but we do not. https://www.arj.no/2016/07/03/micro-hiring/ Sun, 03 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/07/03/micro-hiring/ Hiring one PhD and one Postdoc for MICRO. I am happy to announce that I am recruiting one PhD fellow and one postdoctoral fellow for my new project MICRO. https://www.arj.no/2016/07/02/sound-motion/ Sat, 02 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/07/02/sound-motion/ New paper: Exploring Sound-Motion Similarity in Musical Experience. New paper in Journal of New Music Research: Exploring Sound-Motion Similarity in Musical. https://www.arj.no/2016/06/29/compressing-pdfs/ Wed, 29 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/06/29/compressing-pdfs/ Shell script for compressing PDF files on Ubuntu. Back on OS X one of my favourite small programs was called PDFCompress, which compressed a large PDF file. https://www.arj.no/2016/04/08/from-keynote-to-impress/ Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/04/08/from-keynote-to-impress/ Finally moving from Apple's Keynote to LibreOffice Impress. Apple's Keynote has been my preferred presentation tool for about a decade. For a long time it felt. https://www.arj.no/2016/03/13/micro/ Sun, 13 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/03/13/micro/ New project Funding: MICRO!. I am happy to announce that I have received funding from the Norwegian Research Council's program Young Research Talents for the. https://www.arj.no/2016/01/24/music-moves/ Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2016/01/24/music-moves/ New MOOC: Music Moves. Together with several colleagues, and with great practical and economic support from the University of Oslo, I am happy to announce that. https://www.arj.no/2015/08/03/add-date-to-files-in-ubuntu/ Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2015/08/03/add-date-to-files-in-ubuntu/ Add date to files in Ubuntu. Even though I have been running Ubuntu as my main OS for more than a year now, I am still trying to figure out a good workflow. https://www.arj.no/2015/08/03/new-paper-test-retest-reliability/ Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2015/08/03/new-paper-test-retest-reliability/ New paper: Test–retest reliability of computer-based video analysis of general movements in healthy term-born infants. I have for several years been Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2015/07/28/activity-measurement/ Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2015/07/28/activity-measurement/ Activity measurement. I have been using a Fitbit activity tracker over the last couple of months, which has been an exciting experience, and which has. https://www.arj.no/2015/06/02/mumyo/ Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2015/06/02/mumyo/ New paper: MuMYO - Evaluating and Exploring the MYO Armband for Musical Interaction. Yesterday, I presented my microinteraction paper here at the NIME. https://www.arj.no/2015/06/02/microinteraction/ Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2015/06/02/microinteraction/ New publication: Microinteraction in Music/Dance Performance. This week I am participating at the NIME conference (New Interfaces for Musical Expression). https://www.arj.no/2015/04/12/simple-video-editing-in-ubuntu/ Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2015/04/12/simple-video-editing-in-ubuntu/ Simple video editing in Ubuntu. I have been using Ubuntu as my main OS for the past year, but have often relied on my old MacBook for doing various things that. https://www.arj.no/2015/03/16/moving-to-the-beat/ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2015/03/16/moving-to-the-beat/ New publication: Moving to the Beat. {.imagecontainer} I am happy to announce that I have a new publication out, written together with two of my colleagues. https://www.arj.no/2014/12/13/new-publication-from-experimental-music-technology-to-clinical-tool/ Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2014/12/13/new-publication-from-experimental-music-technology-to-clinical-tool/ New publication: From experimental music technology to clinical tool. I have written a chapter called From experimental music technology to clinical tool in. https://www.arj.no/2014/11/05/on-tv/ Wed, 05 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2014/11/05/on-tv/ My research on national TV. A couple of weeks ago, NRK, the Norwegian broadcasting company screened a documentary about my research together with the. https://www.arj.no/2014/10/26/icmc-2006/ Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2014/10/26/icmc-2006/ ICMC 2006 proceedings details. A colleague of mine recently asked if I could help her find the bibligraphic details of the ICMC 2006 proceedings. Apparently. https://www.arj.no/2014/06/30/to-gesture-or-not/ Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2014/06/30/to-gesture-or-not/ New publication: To Gesture or Not (NIME 2014). This week I am participating at the NIME conference, organised at Goldsmiths, University of London. I am doing. https://www.arj.no/2014/05/01/how-still-is-still/ Thu, 01 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2014/05/01/how-still-is-still/ New publication: How still is still? exploring human standstill for artistic applications. I am happy to announce a new publication titled How still is still? https://www.arj.no/2014/03/29/multicontrol-on-github/ Sat, 29 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2014/03/29/multicontrol-on-github/ MultiControl on GitHub. Screenshot of MultiControl v0.6.2 Today I have added MultiControl to my GitHub account. Inititally, I did not intend to release the. https://www.arj.no/2014/02/25/new-department-video/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2014/02/25/new-department-video/ New department video. As I have mentioned previously, life has been quite hectic over the last year, becoming Head of Department at the same time as getting my. https://www.arj.no/2014/02/25/new-fourms-video/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2014/02/25/new-fourms-video/ New fourMs video. Not only do we have a new Department video, but we have also made a short video documentary about our fourMs group. It is in Norwegian. https://www.arj.no/2014/01/02/goodbye-to-facebook/ Thu, 02 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2014/01/02/goodbye-to-facebook/ Goodbye to Facebook. I am happy to say that I have already completed my first and only new year’s resolution this year: getting rid of my Facebook account. It. https://www.arj.no/2014/01/01/summing-up-2013/ Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2014/01/01/summing-up-2013/ Summing up 2013. The year started off with my second daughter being born on 23 January. She is a lovely little person, but I have come to realise that the. https://www.arj.no/2013/10/18/bits/ Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/10/18/bits/ What does it mean that your system is 7-bit, 10-bit or 16-bit?. In music technology we often talk about n-bit systems. For example, the MIDI protocol is based. https://www.arj.no/2013/08/01/smc2013/ Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/08/01/smc2013/ New publication: Non-Realtime Sonification of Motiongrams. Today I will present the paper Non-Realtime Sonification of Motiongrams at the Sound and Music. https://www.arj.no/2013/07/19/quicktime-time/ Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/07/19/quicktime-time/ Calculating duration of QuickTime movie files. I have been doing video analysis on QuickTime (.mov) files for several years, but have never really had the need. https://www.arj.no/2013/07/15/nime-project/ Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/07/15/nime-project/ Documentation of the NIME project at Norwegian Academy of Music. From 2007 to 2011 I had a part-time research position at the Norwegian Academy of Music in a. https://www.arj.no/2013/07/15/action-sound/ Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/07/15/action-sound/ New publication: An Action-Sound Approach to Teaching Interactive Music. My paper titled An action–sound approach to teaching interactive music has recently. https://www.arj.no/2013/06/28/how-to-import-tsv-file-in-ms-excel/ Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/06/28/how-to-import-tsv-file-in-ms-excel/ How to import TSV file in MS Excel. I often export data from Matlab into TSV files for students and collaborators to use in other programs. It is not entirely. https://www.arj.no/2013/06/26/timelapse/ Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/06/26/timelapse/ Visualisations of a timelapse video. Yesterday, I posted a blog entry on my TimeLapser application, and how it was used to document the working process of the. https://www.arj.no/2013/06/25/timelapser/ Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/06/25/timelapser/ Timelapser. I have recently started moving my development efforts over to GitHub, to keep everything in one place. Now I have also uploaded a small application. https://www.arj.no/2013/06/03/acm-tap/ Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/06/03/acm-tap/ Analyzing correspondence between sound objects and body motion. New publication: Title Analyzing correspondence between sound objects and body motion Authors. https://www.arj.no/2013/05/31/nime-2013-2/ Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/05/31/nime-2013-2/ NIME 2013. Back from a great NIME 2013 conference in Daejeon + Seoul! For Norwegian readers out there, I have written a blog post about the conference on my. https://www.arj.no/2013/05/28/kinectofon/ Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/05/28/kinectofon/ Kinectofon: Performing with shapes in planes. Yesterday, Ståle presented a paper on mocap filtering at the NIME conference in Daejeon. Today I presented a demo. https://www.arj.no/2013/05/27/filtering-mocap/ Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/05/27/filtering-mocap/ Filtering motion capture data for real-time applications. We have three papers from our fourMs group at this year’s NIME conference in Daejeon. The first one. https://www.arj.no/2013/04/29/nime-panel-at-chi/ Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/04/29/nime-panel-at-chi/ NIME panel at CHI. This week the huge ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) is organised in Paris. This is the. https://www.arj.no/2013/04/06/imagesonifyer/ Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/04/06/imagesonifyer/ ImageSonifyer. Earlier this year, before I started as head of department, I was working on a non-realtime implementation of my sonomotiongram technique (a. https://www.arj.no/2013/02/21/are-you-jumping-or-bouncing/ Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/02/21/are-you-jumping-or-bouncing/ Are you jumping or bouncing?. One of the most satisfying things of being a researcher, is to see that ideas, theories, methods, software and other things that. https://www.arj.no/2013/02/20/nymoen-phd/ Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/02/20/nymoen-phd/ New PhD Thesis: Kristian Nymoen. I am happy to announce that fourMs researcher Kristian Nymoen has successfully defended his PhD dissertation, and that the. https://www.arj.no/2013/02/14/new-master-thesis-2-music-kinection-musical-sound-and-motion-in-interactive-systems/ Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/02/14/new-master-thesis-2-music-kinection-musical-sound-and-motion-in-interactive-systems/ New Master Thesis 2: Music Kinection: Musical Sound and Motion in Interactive Systems. Yet another of my master students have graduated recently, and here is a. https://www.arj.no/2013/02/14/new-master-thesis-freestyle-dressage-an-equipage-riding-to-music/ Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/02/14/new-master-thesis-freestyle-dressage-an-equipage-riding-to-music/ New Master Thesis: Freestyle Dressage: an equipage riding to music. I am happy to announce that the dissertation of one my master students has just been made. https://www.arj.no/2013/02/11/head-of-department/ Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/02/11/head-of-department/ Head of Department!. Today I start as Head of Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo! One of the things I promised in my application was to set up. https://www.arj.no/2013/02/03/erc-stg-latex/ Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/02/03/erc-stg-latex/ Unofficial ERC Starting Grant LaTeX template. After I mentioned that I used LaTeX for an ERC Starting Grant application in a previous blog post, I have gotten. https://www.arj.no/2013/01/22/kinectrecorder/ Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/01/22/kinectrecorder/ KinectRecorder. I am currently working on a paper describing some further exploration of the sonifyer technique and module that I have previously published on. https://www.arj.no/2013/01/18/dynamic-logo/ Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/01/18/dynamic-logo/ Dynamic logo at the Norwegian Academy of Music. The Norwegian Academy of Music launched their new web page and logo today. As part of the visual profile, they. https://www.arj.no/2013/01/17/nime-2013-deadline/ Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/01/17/nime-2013-deadline/ NIME 2013 deadline approaching. Here is a little plug for the submission deadline for this year's NIME conference. I usually don't write so much about. https://www.arj.no/2013/01/14/leonardo-publication/ Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/01/14/leonardo-publication/ New publication: Some video abstraction techniques for displaying body movement in analysis and performance. Today the MIT Press journal Leonardo has published. https://www.arj.no/2013/01/08/batch-convert-rtf-files-to-txt/ Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/01/08/batch-convert-rtf-files-to-txt/ Batch convert RTF files to TXT. Last year I decided to use plain text files (TXT) as the main file type for all my computer text input. There are several. https://www.arj.no/2013/01/08/transformation-cmj/ Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/01/08/transformation-cmj/ New publication: Performing the Electric Violin in a Sonic Space. I am happy to announce that a paper I wrote together with Victoria Johnson has just been. https://www.arj.no/2013/01/02/sverm-video-4/ Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/01/02/sverm-video-4/ Sverm video #4. The last of the four Sverm videos by Lavasir Nordrum hast just been posted on Vimeo. The first short movie was titled Micromotion, then. https://www.arj.no/2012/12/18/multicontrol-v-0-6-2/ Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/12/18/multicontrol-v-0-6-2/ MultiControl v.0.6.2. MultiControl is by far the most popular software application I have created, as can be seen in the web traffic here on my site, and also. https://www.arj.no/2012/12/13/10-phone/ Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/12/13/10-phone/ 10-phone Melodrone improvisation. A couple of weeks ago the Oslo Mobile Orchestra (OMO) got the chance to perform with a set of HTC mobile phones Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2012/12/13/performing-with-the-norwegian-noise-orchestra/ Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/12/13/performing-with-the-norwegian-noise-orchestra/ Performing with the Norwegian Noise Orchestra. Yesterday, I performed with the Norwegian Noise Orchestra at Betong in Oslo, at a concert organised by Dans for. https://www.arj.no/2012/12/05/sverm-video-3/ Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/12/05/sverm-video-3/ Sverm video #3. Video artist Lavasir Nordrum hast just posted the third of four short movies created together with the Sverm group. The first short movie was. https://www.arj.no/2012/11/02/sverm-video-2/ Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/11/02/sverm-video-2/ Sverm video #2. As I wrote about last month, the Sverm group has teamed up with video artist Lavasir Nordrum. The plan is that he will create four short and. https://www.arj.no/2012/11/01/motion-action-gesture/ Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/11/01/motion-action-gesture/ Motion, Action, Gesture. I have been discussing definitions of the terms motion/movement, action and gesture several times before on this blog (for example. https://www.arj.no/2012/10/30/musikkteknologidagene-2012/ Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/10/30/musikkteknologidagene-2012/ Musikkteknologidagene 2012. Last week I held a keynote lecture at the Norwegian music technology conference Musikkteknologidagene, by (and at) the Norwegian. https://www.arj.no/2012/10/29/footnotes/ Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/10/29/footnotes/ To footnote or not. By coincidence, I have had several discussions about footnotes, endnotes, and different types of citation styles recently. Such discussions. https://www.arj.no/2012/10/10/sverm-video-1/ Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/10/10/sverm-video-1/ Sverm video #1. For the last couple of years I have been involved in an artistic research project called Sverm, in which we investigate the artistic potential. https://www.arj.no/2012/09/11/mclarens-dots/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/09/11/mclarens-dots/ McLaren's Dots. I am currently working on some extensions to my motiongram-sonifyer, and came across this beautiful little film by Norman McLaren from 1940. https://www.arj.no/2012/09/07/zigflea-board-available/ Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/09/07/zigflea-board-available/ ZigFlea board available. I am happy to announce that the ZigFlea board is currently available from Seedstudio. This board is the result of the Master's thesis. https://www.arj.no/2012/09/05/aldeburgh/ Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/09/05/aldeburgh/ Teaching in Aldeburgh. I am currently in beautiful Aldeburgh, a small town on the east coast of England, teaching at the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. https://www.arj.no/2012/08/16/fourms-videos/ Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/08/16/fourms-videos/ fourMs videos. Over the years we have uploaded various videos to YouTube of our fourMs lab activities. Some of these videos have been uploaded using a shared. https://www.arj.no/2012/08/16/roles/ Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/08/16/roles/ Reflections on the roles of instrument builder, composer, performer. One thing that has occurred to me over recent years, is how the new international trend of. https://www.arj.no/2012/08/13/hi-speed-guitar-recording/ Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/08/13/hi-speed-guitar-recording/ Hi-speed guitar recording. I was in Hamburg last week, teaching at the International Summer Shool in Systematic Musicology (ISSSM). While there, I was able to. https://www.arj.no/2012/08/02/force-eject-a-stuck-dvd/ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/08/02/force-eject-a-stuck-dvd/ Force eject a stuck DVD. What to do when a DVD is stuck in the drive on an old iMac, and it refuses to booth up? There are numerous ways of doing this. https://www.arj.no/2012/07/30/phd-position/ Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/07/30/phd-position/ Open PhD position on music and motion in Oslo. Over the years we have built up an exciting research group (fourMs) here in Oslo, and we are happy to announce. https://www.arj.no/2012/07/13/smc-mocap/ Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/07/13/smc-mocap/ Paper #2 at SMC 2012: Noise level in IR mocap systems. Yesterday I presented a paper on motiongrams at the Sound and Music Computing conference in Copenhagen. https://www.arj.no/2012/07/12/motiongrams-smc/ Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/07/12/motiongrams-smc/ Paper #1 at SMC 2012: Evaluation of motiongrams. Today I presented the paper Evaluating how different video features influence the visual quality of resultant. https://www.arj.no/2012/06/25/record-videos-of-sonification/ Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/06/25/record-videos-of-sonification/ Record videos of sonification. I got a question the other day about how it is possible to record a sonifyed video file based on my sonification module for. https://www.arj.no/2012/06/06/sound-files-from-ma-thesis/ Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/06/06/sound-files-from-ma-thesis/ Sound files from MA thesis. Edit: These files are now more easily accessible from my UiO page. While preparing a lecture for the PhD students at the Norwegian. https://www.arj.no/2012/06/05/new-application-new-text-file/ Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/06/05/new-application-new-text-file/ New application: New text file. This is quite certainly the least advanced computer software I have made publicly available (see here for others), but it may. https://www.arj.no/2012/05/31/some-pictures-from-nime-2012/ Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/05/31/some-pictures-from-nime-2012/ Some pictures from NIME 2012. {style="padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 500px;"} NIME 2012 was full of interesting presentations, posters, demos. https://www.arj.no/2012/05/24/moog-on-google/ Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/05/24/moog-on-google/ Moog on Google. Probably by coincidence, but still a nice concurrence: on the last day of this year's International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical. https://www.arj.no/2012/05/23/music-balls/ Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/05/23/music-balls/ Music ball paper at NIME 2012. Yesterday, I wrote about the 4 papers I was involved in at this year’s NIME conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The one I was the. https://www.arj.no/2012/05/22/4-papers-at-nime-2012/ Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/05/22/4-papers-at-nime-2012/ 4 papers at NIME 2012. I was involved in no less than 4 papers at this year's NIME conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan. K. Nymoen, A. Voldsund, S. A. v. D. https://www.arj.no/2012/05/06/visual-overviews-in-ms-academic-search/ Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/05/06/visual-overviews-in-ms-academic-search/ Visual overviews in MS Academic Search. I have been using Google Scholar as one of my main sources for finding academic papers and books, and find that is has. https://www.arj.no/2012/05/03/workshops-at-art-on-wires/ Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/05/03/workshops-at-art-on-wires/ Workshops at Art.on.Wires. Yesterday I held a workshop on music-related motion capture at this year's Art.on.Wires. The workshop was quite similar to the one I. https://www.arj.no/2012/04/17/mocap-workshop-in-trondheim/ Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/04/17/mocap-workshop-in-trondheim/ Mocap workshop in Trondheim. I will participate in a motion capture workshop at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) tomorrow. My. https://www.arj.no/2012/03/12/disciplinarities-2/ Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/03/12/disciplinarities-2/ Disciplinarities: intra, cross, multi, inter, trans. Update 1 December 2022: You may want to check out a newer version of this figure that I made for my latest. https://www.arj.no/2012/03/06/nm-standstill/ Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/03/06/nm-standstill/ Norwegian Championship in standstill. On Thursday we are organising the first Norwegian Championship of standstill at University of Oslo. This is part of the. https://www.arj.no/2012/02/09/click-it/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/02/09/click-it/ New Laptop Orchestra Piece: Click-It. Yesterday I was teaching a workshop on laptop orchestra performance for the students in Live electronics at the Norwegian. https://www.arj.no/2012/02/07/latex-fonts/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/02/07/latex-fonts/ LaTeX fonts in OS X. When creating figures for papers written in LaTeX, I have found it aesthetically unpleasing to have different fonts in the figures than in. https://www.arj.no/2012/02/03/sonification/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/02/03/sonification/ Sonification of motiongrams. A couple of days ago I presented the paper "Motion-sound Interaction Using Sonification based on Motiongrams" at the ACHI 2012. https://www.arj.no/2012/02/02/music-on-the-metro/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/02/02/music-on-the-metro/ Music on the metro. Travelling on the excellent (and frequent) Valencia metro this morning, I noticed that music was played in the background. Or, to be more. https://www.arj.no/2012/02/02/recovery-time/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/02/02/recovery-time/ Recovery time after e-mail and phone calls. 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. https://www.arj.no/2012/02/01/virtual-park-at-amsterdam-airport/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/02/01/virtual-park-at-amsterdam-airport/ Virtual park at Amsterdam airport. I just discovered that it is possible to create blog posts from TextMate (see introductions here and here), so this is my. https://www.arj.no/2011/12/08/testing-dynamic-bibtex-plugins/ Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/12/08/testing-dynamic-bibtex-plugins/ Testing dynamic bibtex plugins. Keeping publication lists up to date is a constant problem. One thing is to just manage to keep track of things myself, another. https://www.arj.no/2011/11/29/stretchtext/ Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/11/29/stretchtext/ Application writing as example of stretchtext. I have been working on an ERC Starting Grant application over the last months. Besides the usual Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2011/11/28/eml-files/ Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/11/28/eml-files/ EML files. In OS X Lion, Apple has decided to drop support for exporting RTFD (i.e. RTF files with pictures embedded) from Mail. So if you want to export an. https://www.arj.no/2011/11/28/the-sound-of-naked-piano/ Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/11/28/the-sound-of-naked-piano/ The sound of naked piano. Here is my latest electroacoustic composition "The Sound of Naked Piano": Alexander Jensenius · The Sound of Naked Piano I got the. https://www.arj.no/2011/11/28/transformation-on-youtube/ Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/11/28/transformation-on-youtube/ Transformation on YouTube. Victoria Johnson has posted a video of the performance of our piece Transformation on Youtube: The video is from Victoria's final. https://www.arj.no/2011/11/25/avoiding-flash/ Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/11/25/avoiding-flash/ Avoiding 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. https://www.arj.no/2011/11/10/motionlessness/ Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/11/10/motionlessness/ Motionlessness. Yesterday Miles Phillips{.url} suggested that the word "motionlessness" may be what I am after when it comes to describing the act of standing. https://www.arj.no/2011/11/02/compact-bibliography-list-in-latex/ Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/11/02/compact-bibliography-list-in-latex/ Compact bibliography list in LaTeX. I have already written about how to compact lists earlier today. Now is the time to compact the bibliography… This is how. https://www.arj.no/2011/11/02/compact-lists-in-latex/ Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/11/02/compact-lists-in-latex/ Compact lists in LaTeX. I have for a long time been struggling with making lists more compact in LaTeX. While the standard lists often look good, as seen in. https://www.arj.no/2011/10/26/the-act-of-standing-still-stillness-or-standstill/ Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/10/26/the-act-of-standing-still-stillness-or-standstill/ The act of standing still: stillness or standstill?. As mentioned previously (here and here), I have been doing some experiments on standing still in silence. https://www.arj.no/2011/10/25/omsi/ Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/10/25/omsi/ Ollen Musical Sophistication Index (OMSI). At the ESCOM conference a few years ago I heard about the Ollen Musical Sophistication Index (OMSI), which is a. https://www.arj.no/2011/10/24/micromotion-or-millimovement/ Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/10/24/micromotion-or-millimovement/ Micromotion or millimovement. I have been delving into the world of what I have called micromotion recently. At first I did not think much about the word. https://www.arj.no/2011/10/20/unnecessary-long-cables/ Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/10/20/unnecessary-long-cables/ Unnecessary long cables. Working with music technology I am used to cables. I don't mind the cables themselves, since cables are in general much less pain than. https://www.arj.no/2011/10/11/eu-contest-2001/ Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/10/11/eu-contest-2001/ EU Contest 2001. While looking for something totally different today, I stumbled upon an old press release about the European Union Contest for Young. https://www.arj.no/2011/10/05/audio-recordings-as-motion-capture/ Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/10/05/audio-recordings-as-motion-capture/ Audio recordings as motion capture. 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. https://www.arj.no/2011/10/02/difference-between-the-terms-movement-and-motion/ Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/10/02/difference-between-the-terms-movement-and-motion/ Movement versus motion. Terminology is always challenging. I have previously written about definitions of actions and gesture several times (e.g. here, here. https://www.arj.no/2011/09/06/adding-historic-posts/ Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/09/06/adding-historic-posts/ Adding historic posts. I have moved my web pages back and forth between many servers and domains over the years, and each time something breaks and/or. https://www.arj.no/2011/08/10/the-million-song-dataset/ Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/08/10/the-million-song-dataset/ The Million Song Dataset. I guess I was too much into NIME-organization back in March, to notice the launch of the The Million Song Dataset. It contains no. https://www.arj.no/2011/08/05/beautifying-directory-listings-using-htaccess/ Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/08/05/beautifying-directory-listings-using-htaccess/ Beautifying directory listings using .htaccess. Sometimes the easiest way of sharing files is to just put them in a open web directory. I came across this very. https://www.arj.no/2011/08/05/flickr-introduces-long-photos/ Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/08/05/flickr-introduces-long-photos/ Flickr introduces long photos. Flickr has opened for uploading videos, or, rather, what they call "long photos". As such, they are not trying to compete with. https://www.arj.no/2011/08/05/rules-for-computing-happiness/ Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/08/05/rules-for-computing-happiness/ Rules for computing happiness. This, and several other recent and forthcoming blog posts, have been lying in the drafts folder of my blog writing software. https://www.arj.no/2011/07/20/adding-date-to-files-in-folder/ Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/07/20/adding-date-to-files-in-folder/ Adding date to files in folder. I haven't really played much with Automator earlier on, but have found it to be very useful for doing small things that you. https://www.arj.no/2011/07/18/taking-notes/ Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/07/18/taking-notes/ Taking notes. I used to use Journler for taking notes on my computer, and when Journler died I moved on to MacJournal. However, nowadays I constantly find. https://www.arj.no/2011/07/16/cloud-storage/ Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/07/16/cloud-storage/ Cloud storage. I have been using Dropbox occasionally over the last few years to sync files (installers, etc.) between multiple computers. I never felt. https://www.arj.no/2011/07/16/image-size/ Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/07/16/image-size/ Image size. While generating the videograms of Bergensbanen, I discovered that Max/Jitter cannot export images from matrices that are larger than 32767 pixels. https://www.arj.no/2011/07/14/bibdesk-template-for-dblp/ Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/07/14/bibdesk-template-for-dblp/ Bibdesk template for DBLP. To get the NIME 2011 conference indexed in DBLP, it is necessary to provide them with a bibliography file formatted according to. https://www.arj.no/2011/07/13/videogram-and-motiongram/ Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/07/13/videogram-and-motiongram/ Difference between videogram and motiongram. For some upcoming blog posts on videograms, I will start by explaining the difference between a motiongram and a. https://www.arj.no/2011/07/13/videogram-of-bergensbanen/ Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/07/13/videogram-of-bergensbanen/ Videogram of Bergensbanen. While on paternity leave, I (finally) have time to do small projects that require little brain activity and lots of computation. https://www.arj.no/2011/06/30/using-multimarkdown/ Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/06/30/using-multimarkdown/ Using MultiMarkDown. I tend to move between different computers/devices and OSes all the time, and have started to become very tired of storing text data in. https://www.arj.no/2011/06/29/os-x-usb-install/ Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/06/29/os-x-usb-install/ OS X USB install. Here is how to create a USB drive for installing OS X.6 from a DMG file: Open Disk Utility Select your USB drive Select the "Restore" pane. https://www.arj.no/2011/06/27/paternity-leave/ Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/06/27/paternity-leave/ Paternity leave. After spending a lot of time organizing NIME 2011 and building up our new lab facilities at fourMs the last academic year, I will be on. https://www.arj.no/2011/06/17/hurtigruten/ Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/06/17/hurtigruten/ Hurtigruten. One of the more bizarre TV programs ever may be the current screening of Hurtigruten by Norwegian public broadcaster NRK. Following the success of. https://www.arj.no/2011/06/03/chair-nime-sc/ Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/06/03/chair-nime-sc/ Chair of the NIME Steering Committee. At the last day of this year's NIME conference in Oslo I was not only elected as a member of the international steering. https://www.arj.no/2011/05/31/nime-2011/ Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/05/31/nime-2011/ NIME 2011. It has been fairly quiet on this blog as of recently. This is not because I haven't been doing anything, rather the opposite. We are now at the end. https://www.arj.no/2011/05/22/reducing-pdf-file-size/ Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/05/22/reducing-pdf-file-size/ Reducing PDF file size. I am working on finalizing an electronic version of a large PDF file (600 page NIME proceedings), and have had some problems optimizing. https://www.arj.no/2011/05/10/automatically-create-folder-with-date/ Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/05/10/automatically-create-folder-with-date/ Automatically create folder with date. To organize files I have for a while been creating folder names that start with today's date. I typically create a. https://www.arj.no/2011/05/04/derivatives/ Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/05/04/derivatives/ Derivatives. A useful thing to do with position data (e.g. from a motion capture system) is to calculate the first and second derivatives. These will give you. https://www.arj.no/2011/05/04/remove-chapter-and-part-text-from-latex-documents/ Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/05/04/remove-chapter-and-part-text-from-latex-documents/ Remove chapter and part text from LaTeX documents. When using the \part and \chapter tags in LaTeX you will typically end up with parts and chapters that say. https://www.arj.no/2011/04/26/comma-after-i-e-and-e-g/ Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/04/26/comma-after-i-e-and-e-g/ Comma after i.e. and e.g.?. I just discovered that it is common to use a comma before and after i.e. and e.g. in American English style of writing. In British. https://www.arj.no/2011/04/18/use-preview-instead-of-adobe-reader-in-texmate/ Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/04/18/use-preview-instead-of-adobe-reader-in-texmate/ Use Preview instead of Adobe Reader in Texmate. I just installed Adobe Reader on my new computer, only to discover that it hijacked the PDF preview window in. https://www.arj.no/2011/04/01/demonstration-videos-on-using-phidgets-electronic-kits/ Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/04/01/demonstration-videos-on-using-phidgets-electronic-kits/ Demonstration videos on using Phidgets electronic kits. I am using the Phidgets eletronics kits when teaching sound programming, and have now made two small. https://www.arj.no/2011/03/28/concert-victoria-johnson/ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/03/28/concert-victoria-johnson/ Concert: Victoria Johnson. Together with Victoria Johnson I have developed the piece Transformation, a piece where we are using video analysis to control sound. https://www.arj.no/2011/03/25/avoid-subscript-in-matlab-titles/ Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/03/25/avoid-subscript-in-matlab-titles/ Avoid subscript in Matlab titles. I am working on some plots in Matlab, where I am using the filename as the title of the plot. In many of the files I am using. https://www.arj.no/2011/03/21/standing-still/ Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/03/21/standing-still/ Standing still. In between organizing a little conference, teaching (MUS2006, MUS2860, MUS4830), and finalizing some publications, I have started a new. https://www.arj.no/2011/01/27/mercurial/ Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/01/27/mercurial/ Mercurial. For a project I am working on I have to use Mercurial for version control. Mercurial, as opposed to CVS, SVN, GIT, etc., does not rely on a. https://www.arj.no/2010/12/22/where-to-document-things/ Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/12/22/where-to-document-things/ Where to document things?. Documentation is a necessity for both researchers and artists. Both scientific and artistic output requires an audience, people in a. https://www.arj.no/2010/12/01/a-university-is-not-a-school/ Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/12/01/a-university-is-not-a-school/ A university is not a school. I often overhear students that talk about doing "school work" and going to "school". So to all students out there: you are. https://www.arj.no/2010/11/22/greyscale-spectrograms-from-mirtoolbox/ Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/11/22/greyscale-spectrograms-from-mirtoolbox/ Greyscale spectrograms from MIRToolbox. I am using the excellent MIRToolbox for Matlab for a lot of sound analysis applications these days. It meets a lot of. https://www.arj.no/2010/11/16/twitter-facebook/ Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/11/16/twitter-facebook/ Why I prefer open to closed (and Twitter to Facebook). I am not a huge fan of Facebook, and the future of Facebook makes me even more sceptic. Besides all the. https://www.arj.no/2010/11/13/music-content-processing/ Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/11/13/music-content-processing/ Music content processing. Dear child has many names. In a call for a special journal issue on music and robotics, I see the use of the word music content. https://www.arj.no/2010/11/10/free-software-for-music-students/ Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/11/10/free-software-for-music-students/ Free software for music students. My department, as most music departments, have been teaching software in a computer lab with a bunch of commercial Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2010/11/09/sonification-of-motiongrams/ Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/11/09/sonification-of-motiongrams/ Sonification of motiongrams. I have made a new Jamoma module for sonification of motiongrams called jmod.sonifyer\. From a live video input, the program. https://www.arj.no/2010/11/04/invert-screen-os-x/ Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/11/04/invert-screen-os-x/ Invert screen OS X. I thought I had written about this trick on my blog before, but couldn't find it. So I try again: How to invert the screen (systemwide) in. https://www.arj.no/2010/10/31/new-screencast-on-the-basics-of-creating-reverb-in-pd/ Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/10/31/new-screencast-on-the-basics-of-creating-reverb-in-pd/ New screencast on the basics of creating reverb in PD. I have written about my making of a series of sreencasts of basic sound synthesis in puredata in an. https://www.arj.no/2010/10/25/music-is-not-only-sound/ Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/10/25/music-is-not-only-sound/ Music is not only sound. After working with music-related movements for some years, and thereby arguing that movement is an integral part of music, I tend to. https://www.arj.no/2010/10/25/when-and-where-to-post/ Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/10/25/when-and-where-to-post/ When and where to post?. At any point in time I always have 20 or more blog post drafts stored in MarsEdit. Whenever I get an idea for something I want to blog. https://www.arj.no/2010/10/11/audioanalysis-v0-5/ Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/10/11/audioanalysis-v0-5/ AudioAnalysis v0.5. I am teaching a course in sound theory this semester, and therefore thought it was time to update a little program I developed several. https://www.arj.no/2010/10/11/many-lines-in-a-text-file/ Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/10/11/many-lines-in-a-text-file/ Many lines in a text file. I am trying to debug a Max patch that does video analysis. For some reason many of the exported text files containing the analysis. https://www.arj.no/2010/10/03/survey-on-emusicology/ Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/10/03/survey-on-emusicology/ Survey on eMusicology. Many music researchers, myself included, are dependent on technology in and for their work. In fact, I think many of the most. https://www.arj.no/2010/10/01/browser-screen-estate/ Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/10/01/browser-screen-estate/ Browser screen estate. A blog post at NRK beta tells about the recent popularity of Chrome, and mentions that the small pixel footprint the browser takes is an. https://www.arj.no/2010/10/01/latex-formatting-issues/ Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/10/01/latex-formatting-issues/ LaTeX formatting issues. I am about to submit an article for review, and had to format in a special way. Here is a quick summary of what I did: No paragraph. https://www.arj.no/2010/09/21/headset-for-mac/ Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/09/21/headset-for-mac/ Headset for Mac. I have seen/heard several questions about what type of headset to use for skyping on MacBooks over the last few days. Here are my suggestions. https://www.arj.no/2010/09/09/call-for-participation-nime-2011/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/09/09/call-for-participation-nime-2011/ Call for participation: NIME 2011. I am chair for the 11th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2011) , which will be. https://www.arj.no/2010/09/04/double-blind-peer-review/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/09/04/double-blind-peer-review/ Double blind peer review. Many journals, and a few conferences, operate with a so called "double blind" peer review policy. This means that the reviewers of. https://www.arj.no/2010/09/03/pd-introductions-in-norwegian-on-youtube/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/09/03/pd-introductions-in-norwegian-on-youtube/ PD introductions in Norwegian on YouTube. I am teaching two courses this semester: Sound theory 1 (in English) Sound analysis (in Norwegian, together with Rolf. https://www.arj.no/2010/08/31/interdisciplinarity-uio-strategy/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/08/31/interdisciplinarity-uio-strategy/ Interdisciplinarity in UiO's new strategy. I am happy to see that the first point in the new UiO strategy plan is interdisciplinarity, or more specifically. https://www.arj.no/2010/08/27/screen-recording-in-quicktime-x/ Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/08/27/screen-recording-in-quicktime-x/ Screen recording in QuickTime X. I just discovered that QuickTime X has built in support for screen recording. I have been using iShowU for screen recordings. https://www.arj.no/2010/08/25/how-to-type-degree-symbol-os-x/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/08/25/how-to-type-degree-symbol-os-x/ How to type degree symbol (OS X). I was looking for solutions on how to type the degree symbol (like in 0°) on OS X, but could only find solutions for English. https://www.arj.no/2010/08/22/why-open-file-formats-matter/ Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/08/22/why-open-file-formats-matter/ Why open file formats matter. Cleaning up on my hard drive, I came across a couple of .wks (MS Works spreadsheet) documents from 1994-95. I don't really need. https://www.arj.no/2010/08/18/uio-goes-social/ Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/08/18/uio-goes-social/ UiO adds social media buttons on web pages. A few weeks ago I mentioned that University of Oslo now openly supports RSS- and Twitter-feeds from the official. https://www.arj.no/2010/08/18/writing-complex-documents/ Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/08/18/writing-complex-documents/ Writing complex documents. I have been using LaTeX for most of my more advanced writing needs for so many years, that I tend to forget that there are so few. https://www.arj.no/2010/08/09/podcasting/ Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/08/09/podcasting/ Evaluating a semester of podcasting. Earlier this year I wrote a post about how I was going to try out podcasting during the course MUS2006 Musikk og bevegelse. https://www.arj.no/2010/08/09/opened-for-comments-again/ Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/08/09/opened-for-comments-again/ Opened for comments (again). I have opened for comments on the blog again! The comment option was closed a year ago after having received a couple of hundred. https://www.arj.no/2010/08/09/pdf-merge-in-preview/ Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/08/09/pdf-merge-in-preview/ PDF merge in preview. After I began using PDFCompress for minimizing PDF files, the only reason I have had for using the full Adobe Acrobat has been to combine. https://www.arj.no/2010/08/05/applications/ Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/08/05/applications/ Many applications that do few things or a few applications doing everything?. To follow up on my previous post about the differences between browser plugins. https://www.arj.no/2010/08/04/blog-editing/ Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/08/04/blog-editing/ What to choose: Browser plugin, web interface, desktop application?. Nowadays I have a hard time deciding on what type of application to use. Only a few years. https://www.arj.no/2010/07/03/gdif-record-play/ Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/07/03/gdif-record-play/ GDIF recording and playback. Kristian Nymoen have updated the Jamoma modules for recording and playing back GDIF data in Max 5. The modules are based on the. https://www.arj.no/2010/07/02/motiongram/ Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/07/02/motiongram/ New motiongram features in Jamoma, inspired by Daniel Crooks, for visualizing human motion over time in music and dance research, teaching, and analysis. https://www.arj.no/2010/07/01/quantity-of-motion-of-an-arbitrary-number-of-inputs/ Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/07/01/quantity-of-motion-of-an-arbitrary-number-of-inputs/ Quantity of motion of an arbitrary number of inputs. In video analysis I have been working with what is often referred to as "quantity of motion" (which should. https://www.arj.no/2010/06/30/springer/ Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/06/30/springer/ Springer books at UiO. The new University of Oslo contract with Springer gives staff and students access to around 15,000 Springer books published since 2005. https://www.arj.no/2010/06/21/uio-blogging/ Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/06/21/uio-blogging/ UiO goes social and opens for blogging. University of Oslo is brushing up the web pages this year, and now the turn has come to my department. When I updated. https://www.arj.no/2010/06/20/grading/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/06/20/grading/ Common faults that will drop your grade. After reading close to 50 term papers in the last couple of weeks, I see that many small things impact the grading. So. https://www.arj.no/2010/06/20/pdf-please/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/06/20/pdf-please/ PDF please. I receive a lot of e-mails from students, and even though I always tell them to send me PDF files, they almost always send me the source files for. https://www.arj.no/2010/06/16/eduroam-2/ Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/06/16/eduroam-2/ Eduroam in Australia. I have written about Eduroam before, and will probably do it again. Just to recap: eduroam is the secure, world-wide roaming access. https://www.arj.no/2010/06/15/connectivity/ Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/06/15/connectivity/ Slow internet... makes for different thinking. I am sitting in a hotel with a horrible internet connection. Not only is it costly, but it is also slow and the. https://www.arj.no/2010/06/15/video-or-photo/ Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/06/15/video-or-photo/ What to bring for a conference: Video camera or photo camera. In terms of quality the best thing to do for documentation is to bring your big SLR, your big HD. https://www.arj.no/2010/06/11/imrad-pico/ Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/06/11/imrad-pico/ IMRAD and PICO. Reading the latest issue of the Norwegian researcher's magazine Forskerforum, I learned about PICO as an alternative model to the often used. https://www.arj.no/2010/06/07/eigenvalues/ Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/06/07/eigenvalues/ Eigenvalues for journals. A while back Ola Nordal wrote about journal ranking in his blog, referring to a website called eigenfactors.org. The point is to rank. https://www.arj.no/2010/06/07/nime2010/ Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/06/07/nime2010/ Lots of NIME publications. {.vrtx-introduction} I am getting ready to travel to Sydney for the upcoming NIME 2010 conference where I am involved in no less. https://www.arj.no/2010/06/04/boot-problems-ubuntu-10-04/ Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/06/04/boot-problems-ubuntu-10-04/ Boot problems Ubuntu 10.04. Just as I started to believe that Ubuntu had matured to become a super-stable and grandma-friendly OS, I got an unexpected black. https://www.arj.no/2010/06/03/xdif-wiki/ Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/06/03/xdif-wiki/ New GDIF + SpatDIF wiki: xDIF. Today I am starting my post-semester activities. Not that all grading is finished yet, and all administrative meetings are over. https://www.arj.no/2010/05/31/excel2latex/ Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/05/31/excel2latex/ Excel / CSV to LaTeX table converter. I was looking for a way to convert a spreadsheet to LaTeX code today. Googling for a solution several links to various. https://www.arj.no/2010/05/26/plugins-plugins-plugins/ Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/05/26/plugins-plugins-plugins/ Plugins, plugins, plugins. The world is becoming a huge collection of plugins. I hadn't tried Google Chrome in a while, and just realized that not only has it. https://www.arj.no/2010/05/12/adde/ Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/05/12/adde/ NTNU PhD defense. Two weeks ago Lars Adde defended his PhD entitled Prediction of cerebral palsy in young infants. Computer based assessment of general. https://www.arj.no/2010/05/12/bergsland/ Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/05/12/bergsland/ NTNU PhD defense 2. Music technology research is a fairly small field worldwide, and even smaller in Norway. So therefore I am very happy that Andreas. https://www.arj.no/2010/04/24/moving-blog/ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/04/24/moving-blog/ Moving blog. Since my old web provider is closing down I have had to move all my domains to a new server. I was a bit afraid of losing all the content in my. https://www.arj.no/2010/03/11/ircam-workshop-on-gdif-spatdif/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/03/11/ircam-workshop-on-gdif-spatdif/ IRCAM workshop on GDIF & SpatDIF. {.vrtx-introduction} IRCAM is proposing a workshop on GDIF & SpatDIF 20-21 May. The invitation e-mail sent to the GDIF. https://www.arj.no/2010/02/23/ds_store/ Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/02/23/ds_store/ Prevent .ds_store file creation on network volumes. I have been annoyed by the fact that OS X leaves .ds\store files in folders that you open. This is ok on. https://www.arj.no/2010/02/16/omnigraffle-tab/ Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/02/16/omnigraffle-tab/ Tabs in OmniGraffle. OmniGraffle is one of my favourite programs, mainly because it can generate professional looking graphics very easily. However, one thing. https://www.arj.no/2010/02/09/podcast-2/ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/02/09/podcast-2/ Podcast from MIC-seminar. There are now podcast streams available (Norwegian only) from the MIC seminar held last week at the National library. As I wrote. https://www.arj.no/2010/01/24/seminar/ Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/01/24/seminar/ Seminar: Musikk og bevegelse. To celebrate the publication of our two new books (Musikk og bevegelse and Musical Gestures - Sound, Movement and Meaning). https://www.arj.no/2010/01/22/podcast/ Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/01/22/podcast/ Podcasting course. Last spring I set up the course MUS2006 Musikk og bevegelse (Music and Movement), an introductory course (in Norwegian) covering theory and. https://www.arj.no/2010/01/04/citeulike2bibdesk/ Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/01/04/citeulike2bibdesk/ Sync references from CiteULike to BibDesk. I have been using citeulike a little on and off for the last couple of years, but that may very well change after I. https://www.arj.no/2010/01/03/endnote-to-bibtex/ Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/01/03/endnote-to-bibtex/ Convert EndNote database to BibTeX. Once in a while I need to convert an EndNote library to a BibTeX library. For some reason this is much more difficult than. https://www.arj.no/2010/01/03/endnote2bibtex/ Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/01/03/endnote2bibtex/ Convert from Endnote to BibTeX (again). {.summary} Once in a while I need to convert an EndNote library to a BibTeX library. For some reason this is much more. https://www.arj.no/2009/12/21/negative-colours/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/12/21/negative-colours/ Negative colours in OS X. My blog has been down for a few days, so I have a few entries that have piled up in the drafts folder of my ScribeFire, while waiting. https://www.arj.no/2009/12/21/musical-gestures-book/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/12/21/musical-gestures-book/ New Book: Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement, and Meaning. I am happy to announce the publication of the new book Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement, and Meaning. https://www.arj.no/2009/12/21/bergensbanen/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/12/21/bergensbanen/ Remix Norwegian mountains. NRK (the Norwegian national broadcaster) has decided to release a HD recording of the entire "Bergensbanen" trip they broadcast last. https://www.arj.no/2009/12/10/missinglink/ Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/12/10/missinglink/ Citing the internet. The paper The Missing Link: Assessing the Reliability of Internet Citations in History Journals presents an alarming conclusion: The. https://www.arj.no/2009/11/27/liquid-vapor/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/11/27/liquid-vapor/ Liquid Vapor. I performed in the open form piece Liquid Vapor by Else Olsen S. yesterday. The performance was special in many ways. First, electronic music. https://www.arj.no/2009/11/24/viture/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/11/24/viture/ Vitures. A few days ago I learned a new scientific word: viture. It appears in this article co-written by a colleague of mine from NTNU. Viture is defined as. https://www.arj.no/2009/11/11/jamoma05/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/11/11/jamoma05/ Jamoma 0.5 released. After extensive testing Jamoma 0.5 is finally released. Even though the version number is low, this release has been worked on for around. https://www.arj.no/2009/11/10/haugenbok/ Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/11/10/haugenbok/ Buying my book outside of Norway. I have had several requests from people outside of Norway that want to buy my book. Aparently, Akademika only ships to. https://www.arj.no/2009/10/23/linux-mint-and-hp-laserjet-p1005/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/10/23/linux-mint-and-hp-laserjet-p1005/ Linux mint and HP LaserJet P1005. Linux Mint has become my favourite Linux distribution as of lately. It is built on Ubuntu but with the added benefit of. https://www.arj.no/2009/10/19/hyperimprovisation/ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/10/19/hyperimprovisation/ Hyperimprovsation video. {.youtube-video} {.dmtdwtroqzfivctewzyq} {.dmtdwtroqzfivctewzyq} {.dmtdwtroqzfivctewzyq} {.dmtdwtroqzfivctewzyq} Alexander Refsum. https://www.arj.no/2009/10/10/new-book/ Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/10/10/new-book/ New book: Musikk og bevegelse. Yesterday I received the first copies of my new book "Musikk og bevegelse" (Music and movement), and it is supposed to be. https://www.arj.no/2009/10/07/testing-control-of-catart-from-video-analysis/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/10/07/testing-control-of-catart-from-video-analysis/ Testing control of CataRT from video analysis. I am working with Victoria Johnson on a piece involving movement in physical and sonic space. Here is a. https://www.arj.no/2009/09/24/blog-is-back-at-full-speed/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/09/24/blog-is-back-at-full-speed/ Blog is back at full speed. Upgrading my blog to Wordpress 2.7 earlier this year resulted in a severe slowdown of page loading time (10-20 seconds), and this. https://www.arj.no/2009/08/23/personas/ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/08/23/personas/ The way the web looks at me. Through the blog of Gisle Martens Meyer I came across Personas by Aaron Zinman at MIT. You type in your name, and the algorithm. https://www.arj.no/2009/08/14/presenting-mocapgrams/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/08/14/presenting-mocapgrams/ Presenting mocapgrams. Earlier today I held the presentation “Reduced Displays of Multidimensional Motion Capture Data Sets of Musical Performance” at the. https://www.arj.no/2009/08/13/updated-software-2/ Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/08/13/updated-software-2/ Updated software. I have been teaching at the International Summer School in Systematic, Comparative and Cognitive Musicology 2009 in Jyväskylä, Finland the. https://www.arj.no/2009/08/06/book-manuscript-ready/ Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/08/06/book-manuscript-ready/ Book manuscript ready. Over the last year I have been working on a text book based on my dissertation. It started out as a translation of my dissertation into. https://www.arj.no/2009/08/04/digital-research-tools/ Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/08/04/digital-research-tools/ Digital Research Tools. The Digital Research Tools wiki has a nice collection of links to various software tools and resources for different types of research. https://www.arj.no/2009/07/31/videonotetaker/ Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/07/31/videonotetaker/ Videonotetaker. Videonotetaker is a small java/quicktime-based application for writing text-based annotations of a video file. It is very simple, and I can't. https://www.arj.no/2009/07/10/disciplinarities/ Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/07/10/disciplinarities/ Multi-, cross- and interdisciplinarity. Update 1 December 2022: You may want to check out a newer version of this figure that I made for my latest book. While. https://www.arj.no/2009/07/06/iphone/ Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/07/06/iphone/ iPhone headset works on MacBook. It took me a while to realize that the microphone on the iPhone headset actually works when plugged into the headphone input. https://www.arj.no/2009/07/06/scratching/ Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/07/06/scratching/ Scratching surface. A few years ago the EU project TAI-CHI (Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer-Human Interaction) explored using acoustic cues from. https://www.arj.no/2009/07/02/standards/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/07/02/standards/ IT standards in Norway. Today the Norwegian government decided on the following standards to be used in all public communication: Video: Theora/Vorbis/Ogg or. https://www.arj.no/2009/07/01/is-the-internal-isight-running-at-15fps-or-30fps/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/07/01/is-the-internal-isight-running-at-15fps-or-30fps/ Is the internal isight running at 15fps or 30fps?. While debugging some Max/Jitter patches, I just noticed that the built-in iSight camera in my aluminum. https://www.arj.no/2009/06/26/stsm/ Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/06/26/stsm/ STSM at KTH. I am currently in Stockholm carrying out a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) in the Speech, music and Hearing group at KTH through the COST. https://www.arj.no/2009/06/22/delete-spam/ Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/06/22/delete-spam/ Deleting spam comments in WordPress. About 6 months ago I had a serious spam attack here in my blog, and received more than 60 000 spam comments in a few days. https://www.arj.no/2009/06/15/new-gdif-web-page-and-mailing-list/ Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/06/15/new-gdif-web-page-and-mailing-list/ New GDIF web page and mailing list. Courtesy of BEK, we have set up a new web page for the Gesture Description Interchange Format (GDIF) at gdif.org. The web. https://www.arj.no/2009/06/05/multiple-usb-webcams-working-at-the-same-time/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/06/05/multiple-usb-webcams-working-at-the-same-time/ Multiple USB webcams working at the same time. After working happily with FW-products for many years, the recent trend of disappearing FW-ports have made me. https://www.arj.no/2009/05/13/music-information-retrieval/ Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/05/13/music-information-retrieval/ Music Information Retrieval. We organised a small workshop on Music Information Retrieval some weeks ago, and for that I carried out a small check for the most. https://www.arj.no/2009/04/30/ie-and-eg/ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/04/30/ie-and-eg/ i.e. and e.g.. A quick observation this morning as I was brushing up on a couple of grammatical things over at Grammar Girl while finishing a book chapter. https://www.arj.no/2009/04/27/updated-software/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/04/27/updated-software/ Updated software. I was at the Musical Body conference at University of London last week and presented my work on visualisation of music-related movements. For. https://www.arj.no/2009/04/16/no-autosave-in-keynote/ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/04/16/no-autosave-in-keynote/ No autosave in Keynote. I recently upgraded to iWork '09. I don't use Pages or Numbers for anything, but Keynote is my preferred presentation software, so I. https://www.arj.no/2009/03/24/downgrade-solved-the-wordpress-problem/ Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/03/24/downgrade-solved-the-wordpress-problem/ Downgrade solved the WordPress problem. I just downgraded from Wordpress 2.7 to 2.6.5 after living with an extremely slow web page for some weeks. There are. https://www.arj.no/2009/03/19/automatic-conversion-from-html-to-wiki-markup/ Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/03/19/automatic-conversion-from-html-to-wiki-markup/ Automatic conversion from HTML to Wiki markup. I had to set up some tables for our wiki, and came across a HTML-to-wiki converter which seems to work well. https://www.arj.no/2009/03/12/slow-web-page/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/03/12/slow-web-page/ Slow web page. I have updated to Wordpress 2.7, and this has led to really sluggish load times of these pages. This seems to be a known problem that lots of. https://www.arj.no/2009/02/16/asus-eee-tricks/ Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/02/16/asus-eee-tricks/ Asus eee tricks. When I got my Asus eee a few months ago I tested the built-in OS for about an hour and then decided to install Ubuntu eee (later renamed to. https://www.arj.no/2009/02/09/cost-effectiveness-of-live-electronics/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/02/09/cost-effectiveness-of-live-electronics/ Cost-effectiveness of live electronics. Jamie Bullock has written an interesting blog post called Does live electronic music make good business sense?. While I. https://www.arj.no/2009/02/09/human-computer-confluence/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/02/09/human-computer-confluence/ human-computer confluence. A couple of weeks ago I came across the English word confluence. The Oxford dictionary informs me that this means "the junction of. https://www.arj.no/2009/02/09/thought-conduit/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/02/09/thought-conduit/ Thought Conduit. Synchronisation is a core issue when carrying out research on multimodal sensing/acting and multimedia. My take on this has been through the. https://www.arj.no/2009/01/30/both-microsoft-and-apple-launches-active-music-software/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/01/30/both-microsoft-and-apple-launches-active-music-software/ Both Microsoft and Apple launches Active Music software. Over the last few months I have saved up a number of drafts for blog entries, and am currently trying. https://www.arj.no/2009/01/30/lab-wiki/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/01/30/lab-wiki/ Lab wiki. We have set up a new wiki for the fourMs lab. It is mainly intended as a place for tutorials and various tricks and tips in using the software and. https://www.arj.no/2009/01/30/skype-gives-access-to-wireless-networks/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/01/30/skype-gives-access-to-wireless-networks/ Skype gives access to wireless networks. The latest beta version of Skype (for OS X only, apparently) offers something called "Skype Access", which makes it. https://www.arj.no/2009/01/12/triple-boot-on-macbook/ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/01/12/triple-boot-on-macbook/ Triple boot on MacBook. I am back at work after a long vacation, and one of the first things I started doing this year was to reinstall several of my. https://www.arj.no/2008/10/28/three-workshops-in-a-row/ Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/10/28/three-workshops-in-a-row/ Three workshops in a row. The last few weeks have been quite busy here in Oslo. We opened the new lab just about a month ago, and since then I have organised. https://www.arj.no/2008/10/23/some-thoughts-on-data-signal-processing-in-max/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/10/23/some-thoughts-on-data-signal-processing-in-max/ Some thoughts on data signal processing in Max. We are having a Jamoma workshop at the fourMs lab this week. Most of the time is being spent on making Jamoma. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/30/logos-robot-orchestra/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/30/logos-robot-orchestra/ Logos robot orchestra. While in Gent a couple of weeks ago I had the chance to visit the Logos Foundation and hear a concert with the robot orchestra. It was. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/30/verb-labels/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/30/verb-labels/ Verb labels. I hadn't thought about the lack of verb labels in Windows as opposed to OS X before I read this blog entry. The point made is that adding some. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/28/on-the-news/ Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/28/on-the-news/ On the news. A journalist from the national broadcaster NRK came to our opening on Friday, and he made a story which was shown on the "cultural news" Friday. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/27/lab-opening-2/ Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/27/lab-opening-2/ Lab opening. Our new research lab was officially opened yesterday. Director of the Sensing Music-related Actions project Rolf Inge Godøy held a short. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/16/journler/ Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/16/journler/ Journler. Feeling that DevonThink was a bit too CPU-heavy and too cumbersome to work with, I have started using Journler for managing snippets of information. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/16/lab-opening/ Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/16/lab-opening/ Lab opening. As I have blogged about over on our project page, we are going to have an official opening of the new lab next Friday. Please come over if you are. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/09/multimodal-sensing/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/09/multimodal-sensing/ Apple tries to patent multimodal sensing. AppleInsider reports on a set of patents for multimodal sensing (i.e. using two or more senses at the same time). https://www.arj.no/2008/09/09/blog-and-spam/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/09/blog-and-spam/ Blog and spam. I had a spam attack in the comments fields of the blog a few weeks ago, leaving me close to 30 000 comments that I have to manually moderate. So. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/09/entrainment/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/09/entrainment/ Entrainment. One of the groups at the ISSSM showed a video of metronome synchronisation shot at the Nonlinear dynamics and medical physics group at Lancaster. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/09/full-sync-with-google-calendar/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/09/full-sync-with-google-calendar/ Full sync with Google calendar. Google recently added CalDAV support to the calendar, and this tutorial explains how to set it up with various programs. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/09/cycling-74-data-collection-building-databases-using-sqlite/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/09/cycling-74-data-collection-building-databases-using-sqlite/ Max/MSP and databases. Andrew Benson just posted a short tutorial on how to use the built in SQL tools in Max 5. Databases seems to be the future, also in. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/09/nice-picture-from-icmc/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/09/nice-picture-from-icmc/ Nice picture from ICMC. As mentioned previously, Kristian Nymoen and I presented a paper at ICMC, and I found a great picture from our presentation over in the. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/04/freesmug/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/04/freesmug/ FreeSMUG. It has probably been around for a while, but I just discovered FreeSMUG (FreeSoftware Mac User Group). The idea os to select and bundle various free. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/04/papers-at-icmc-2008/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/04/papers-at-icmc-2008/ Papers at ICMC 2008. Last week I was in Belfast for the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2008). The conference was hosted by SARC, and it was. https://www.arj.no/2008/08/26/open-lab/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/08/26/open-lab/ Open lab. We have slowly been moving into our new lab spaces over the last weeks. The official opening of the labs is scheduled for Friday 26 September, but we. https://www.arj.no/2008/08/04/formatting-wd-1tb-drive/ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/08/04/formatting-wd-1tb-drive/ Formatting WD 1TB drive. I bought a 1TB Western Digital hard drive the other day, and it came preformatted with FAT32. Since I will only be using this on OS X. https://www.arj.no/2008/07/18/google-scholar-imports-in-bibdesk/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/07/18/google-scholar-imports-in-bibdesk/ Google Scholar import in Bibdesk. Yesterday I wrote about the possibility to import references from Google scholar into a reference program. Today I found a. https://www.arj.no/2008/07/17/black-box-in-the-lab/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/07/17/black-box-in-the-lab/ Black box in the lab. Last week we started setting up a "black box" in the new lab space. It is great to finally have a more permanent motion lab set up that. https://www.arj.no/2008/07/17/exporting-references-from-google-scholar/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/07/17/exporting-references-from-google-scholar/ Exporting references from Google Scholar. I have written about the (hidden) possibility of exporting references from Google Scholar before, but since several. https://www.arj.no/2008/07/16/the-challenge-of-creating-booklets/ Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/07/16/the-challenge-of-creating-booklets/ The challenge of creating booklets. I have been trying to create a booklet out of a standing A4 paper (the booklet size should be 105 x 297 mm), but this has. https://www.arj.no/2008/06/17/audiovideoanalysis/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/06/17/audiovideoanalysis/ AudioVideoAnalysis. To allow everyone to watch their own synchronised spectrograms and motiongrams, I have made a small application called AudioVideoAnalysis. https://www.arj.no/2008/06/16/managing-e-mail/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/06/16/managing-e-mail/ Managing e-mail. While in Genova for the last couple weeks, I only had limited time to read and write e-mails, and now that I am back in my office I am slowly. https://www.arj.no/2008/06/16/nime-paper/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/06/16/nime-paper/ NIME paper. A group of Jamoma-developers presented a paper suggesting an extension to OSC at this year's NIME in Genova two weeks ago: Reference: Place, T., T. https://www.arj.no/2008/06/11/motiongrams-synced-to-spectrograms/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/06/11/motiongrams-synced-to-spectrograms/ Motiongrams sync'ed to spectrograms. One of my reasons for developing motiongrams was to have a solution for visualising movement in a way that would be. https://www.arj.no/2008/06/11/multimodal-perception/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/06/11/multimodal-perception/ Spatial and Temporal Resolution in Multimodal Perception. Stefania Serafin just held a great lecture on multimodal perception and sonic interaction design at. https://www.arj.no/2008/06/08/nime-jamoma-workshop/ Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/06/08/nime-jamoma-workshop/ NIME Jamoma workshop. Some pictures from our Jamoma workshop after NIME: Pascal showing the ramping and mapping magic in Jamoma. Tim showing that Jamoma is. https://www.arj.no/2008/06/06/uosc/ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/06/06/uosc/ uOSC. micro-OSC (uOSC) was made public yesterday at NIME: micro-OSC (uOSC) is a firmware runtime system for embedded platforms designed to remain as small as. https://www.arj.no/2008/06/06/virtual-slide-guitar/ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/06/06/virtual-slide-guitar/ Virtual slide guitar. Jyri Pakarinen just presented a paper on the Virtual Slide Guitar (VSG) here at NIME in Genova. They used a commercial 6DOF head tracking. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/23/janers-dissertation/ Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/23/janers-dissertation/ Janer's dissertation. I had a quick read of Jordi Janer's dissertation today: Singing-Driven Interfaces for Sound Synthesizers. The dissertation presents a. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/23/presentation-at-mmw/ Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/23/presentation-at-mmw/ Presentation at Mobile Music Workshop. Last week I presented the paper Some Challenges Related to Music and Movement in Mobile Music Technology at the Mobile. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/22/homemade-spherical-speaker/ Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/22/homemade-spherical-speaker/ Homemade spherical speaker. Michael Zbyszynski has made a detailed tutorial on how to make homemade spherical speakers, using IKEA salad bowls and cheap. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/18/tags-and-categories/ Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/18/tags-and-categories/ Tags and categories. I have been remodelling my web page today, installing the latest version of Wordpress, and testing out a new theme and organisational. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/15/gumstix-and-pda/ Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/15/gumstix-and-pda/ Gumstix and PDa. Another post from the Mobile Music Workshop in Vienna. Yesterday I saw a demo on the Audioscape project by Mike Wozniewski (McGill). He was. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/15/mobile-python-on-s60-to-maxmsp/ Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/15/mobile-python-on-s60-to-maxmsp/ Mobile Python on S60 to Max/MSP. Richard Widerberg held a workshop today on using mobile python on Nokia phones running Symbian OS S60. He has gathered some. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/15/sonification-of-traveling-landscapes/ Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/15/sonification-of-traveling-landscapes/ Sonification of Traveling Landscapes. I just heard a talk called "Real-Time Synaesthetic Sonification of Traveling Landscapes" (PDF) by Tim Pohle and Peter. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/12/kickoff-seminar/ Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/12/kickoff-seminar/ Kickoff-seminar. Some pictures from the kickoff-seminar for the Sensing Music-related Actions project last week: Project leader Rolf-Inge Godøy started with a. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/12/optitrack-motion-capture/ Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/12/optitrack-motion-capture/ Optitrack motion capture. I held a guest lecture at the speech, music and hearing group at KTH in Stockholm a couple of weeks ago, and got a tour of the lab. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/10/hyperinstruments-workshop/ Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/10/hyperinstruments-workshop/ Hyperinstruments workshop. A couple of weeks ago, we organised a workshop on hyperinstruments and GDIF at the Norwegian Academy of Music. This workshop was an. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/10/new-lab/ Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/10/new-lab/ New lab. It has now been confirmed that the Sensing Music-related Actions project will move into new spaces in a building called Veglaboratoriet. The building. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/09/music-technology-days-2008/ Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/09/music-technology-days-2008/ Music technology days 2008. Musikkteknologidagene, an annual seminar about music technology in Norway, will be organised in Bergen this year. I organised the. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/09/new-features-in-preview/ Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/09/new-features-in-preview/ New features in Preview. I have been using Leopard for a while, but hadn't discovered some of the new features yet: Image adjustments Create alpha channels in. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/08/motion-capture-system-using-accelerometers/ Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/08/motion-capture-system-using-accelerometers/ Motion Capture System Using Accelerometers. Came across a student project from Cornell on doing motion capture using accelerometers, based on the Atmel. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/08/olpc-sound-samples/ Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/08/olpc-sound-samples/ OLPC Sound Samples. I am doing some "house-cleaning" on my computer, and came across the link to the OLPC Sound Samples which were announced last month. This. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/07/anechoic-chamber-uio/ Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/07/anechoic-chamber-uio/ Anechoic chamber at UiO. A couple of weeks ago we had an excursion to an anechoic chamber in the basement of the physics department at the University of Oslo. https://www.arj.no/2008/05/05/softkinetic/ Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/05/05/softkinetic/ Softkinetic. Dutch company Softkineticoffers what they call natural interfaces, i.e. interfaces where you don't have to put on any sensors to interact. https://www.arj.no/2008/04/24/sensing-music-related-actions/ Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/04/24/sensing-music-related-actions/ Sensing Music-related Actions. The web page for our new research project called Sensing Music-related Actions is now up and running. This is a joint research. https://www.arj.no/2008/04/23/max-5/ Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/04/23/max-5/ Max 5. Cycling '74 has released Max 5! I have been beta-testing the software for some time now, and can highly recommend the update. There has been a lot of. https://www.arj.no/2008/04/10/music-technology-blog-at-the-university-of-oslo/ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/04/10/music-technology-blog-at-the-university-of-oslo/ Music Technology blog at the University of Oslo. To help spread information about various things related to music technology at the University of Oslo (and. https://www.arj.no/2008/04/08/writing-in-neooffice-dreaming-of-latex/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/04/08/writing-in-neooffice-dreaming-of-latex/ Writing in NeoOffice, dreaming of LaTeX. I am working on a paper for a journal that only accepts RTF documents, and to avoid the possible problems resulting. https://www.arj.no/2008/04/07/large-scale-motion-tracking/ Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/04/07/large-scale-motion-tracking/ Video demonstration of large-scale motion tracking methods for studying music-related body movement in performance, dance, and music technology research. https://www.arj.no/2008/04/01/cirmmt-spatialization-questionnaire/ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/04/01/cirmmt-spatialization-questionnaire/ CIRMMT Spatialization Questionnaire. As spatialization is growing more popular, it is important to conduct more research into the field to know more about how. https://www.arj.no/2008/04/01/david-huron-listening-styles-and-listening-strategies/ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/04/01/david-huron-listening-styles-and-listening-strategies/ David Huron: Listening Styles and Listening Strategies. In a presentation at the Society for Music Theory 2002 Conference, 2002, David Huron proposed 21. https://www.arj.no/2008/03/27/oldest-sound-recording/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/03/27/oldest-sound-recording/ Oldest sound recording. The International Herald Tribune reports on the finding of a 10-second recording of the folk song "Au Clair de la Lune" recorded on. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/25/apple-tries-to-patent-gestures/ Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/25/apple-tries-to-patent-gestures/ Apple tries to patent gestures. Wired reports that Apple has filed around 200 patent applications related to multitouch and gesture control: Yet it appears. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/25/multicontrol-v04/ Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/25/multicontrol-v04/ MultiControl v.04. It has taken a while, but I finally found some time to update my MultiControl application. This was a small program I made back in 2004, and. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/22/more-tv-adhd-and-air-guitar/ Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/22/more-tv-adhd-and-air-guitar/ More TV: ADHD and Air Guitar. NRK has made a short documentary telling the story about my collaboration with a group of medical researchers working on ADHD. Of. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/15/recordings-in-casa-paganini/ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/15/recordings-in-casa-paganini/ Recordings in Casa Paganini. The location of the EyesWeb Week is the facilities of the DIST group in the beautiful Casa Paganina, including a large auditorium. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/15/tactile-experience/ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/15/tactile-experience/ Tactile experience. On the plane down to Genova I had an interesting tactile experience. It turned out that the box that the lunch was served in had this 3D. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/14/emotional-music-examples/ Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/14/emotional-music-examples/ Emotional music examples. The Peretz group has made available a set of musical excerpts with emotion ratings. Perhaps not the most exciting musical collection. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/14/harvard-adopts-open-access/ Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/14/harvard-adopts-open-access/ Harvard adopts Open Access. The Chronicle reports that Harvard University enforces an Open Access policy for all publications made by the faculty. This is. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/14/syncing-movement-and-audio-using-a-vst/ Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/14/syncing-movement-and-audio-using-a-vst/ Syncing Movement and Audio using a VST-plugin. I just heard Esteban Maestre from UPF present his project on creating a database of instrumental actions of. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/14/tril-centre-emobius-and-shimmer/ Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/14/tril-centre-emobius-and-shimmer/ TRIL centre, Emobius and Shimmer. I just heard a presentation by a group of researchers from the Tril centre (Technology Research for Independent Living) in. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/13/motiongrams-in-eyesweb/ Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/13/motiongrams-in-eyesweb/ Motiongrams in EyesWeb!. We had a programming session this morning, and Paolo Coletta implemented a block for creating motiongrams in EyesWeb. It will be. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/12/free-software/ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/12/free-software/ Free Software. I am participating in the EyesWeb Week in Genoa this week. This morning Nicola Bernardini held a lecture about Free Software. I have heard him. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/07/subethaedit-and-max-externals/ Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/07/subethaedit-and-max-externals/ SubEthaEdit and Max externals. I have had problems with SubEthaEdit making Max/MSP .mxo externals show up as folders instead of packages. I type the solution. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/04/air-guitar/ Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/04/air-guitar/ Dr Air Guitar. "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. https://www.arj.no/2008/02/01/phd-defense/ Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/02/01/phd-defense/ PhD defense. Yesterday, I defended my dissertation ACTION SOUND. Developing Methods and Tools to Study Music-Related Body Movement at the University of Oslo. https://www.arj.no/2008/01/18/open-sound-control/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/01/18/open-sound-control/ Open Sound Control. The newly refurbished OSC forum web site has sparked off some discussions on the OSC\dev mailing list. One interesting note was a reply. https://www.arj.no/2008/01/10/paper-version-gone-electronic-version-ready/ Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/01/10/paper-version-gone-electronic-version-ready/ Paper version gone - Electronic version ready. The paper versions of my dissertation arrived late Friday, and I spent the following days burning 100 CD-ROMs to. https://www.arj.no/2008/01/07/time-machine/ Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/01/07/time-machine/ Time Machine. I had my first go at restoring a file using Time Machine today. Looking for a Keynote presentation, I realised that I had kept only the PDF of. https://www.arj.no/2008/01/07/windows-mobile-7-and-touch-gesture/ Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/01/07/windows-mobile-7-and-touch-gesture/ Windows Mobile 7 and Touch Gesture. All the big companies are launching new devices with "gesture control" these days, and Microsoft is following along . This. https://www.arj.no/2008/01/05/dissertation-is-printed/ Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/01/05/dissertation-is-printed/ Dissertation is printed!. My dissertation came from the printing company yesterday. Here's a picture of some of them: It feels a bit weird to see the final. https://www.arj.no/2007/12/17/challenges-with-dissertation-printing/ Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/12/17/challenges-with-dissertation-printing/ Challenges with dissertation printing. Time has come for preparing my dissertation for official printing. Luckily, I had done most of the formatting when. https://www.arj.no/2007/12/11/coordinate-systems/ Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/12/11/coordinate-systems/ Coordinate systems. I am updating the GDIF messaging in the jmod.mouse module in Jamoma. Trond suggested to use the OpenGL convention for ranges and coordinate. https://www.arj.no/2007/12/11/mapping-and-conditioning/ Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/12/11/mapping-and-conditioning/ Mapping and conditioning. The concept of "mapping" is frequently used in the computer music community these days, and has also been used over the last couple. https://www.arj.no/2007/12/10/jamoma-workshop-in-brussels/ Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/12/10/jamoma-workshop-in-brussels/ Jamoma Workshop in Brussels. We have a Jamoma workshop in Brussels this week. Some of the major things we will be talking about, and working on, during these. https://www.arj.no/2007/11/26/phd-accepted-for-public-disputation/ Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/11/26/phd-accepted-for-public-disputation/ PhD accepted for public disputation. I am happy to announce that my dissertation entitled "ACTION — SOUND: Developing Methods and Tools to Study Music-Related. https://www.arj.no/2007/11/14/geovision-mpeg4-codec/ Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/11/14/geovision-mpeg4-codec/ GeoVision MPEG4 Codec. I recently received a video file with some material I am supposed to analyse. The problem was that I couldn't figure out what type of. https://www.arj.no/2007/11/12/joshs-rules-of-database-contracting/ Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/11/12/joshs-rules-of-database-contracting/ Contracting. Following an interesting thread on careers in Max/MSP, I came across a link to Joshs Rules of Database Contracting. I particularly like these. https://www.arj.no/2007/11/12/notam-has-to-cut-down-on-its-activity/ Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/11/12/notam-has-to-cut-down-on-its-activity/ NOTAM has to cut down on its activity. Due to a lack of increase in its budgets over several years, and increase in everything else, NOTAM - the Norwegian. https://www.arj.no/2007/11/08/musical-vs-music-related/ Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/11/08/musical-vs-music-related/ Musical vs. Music-related. Working on a book chapter, I am trying to clarify some terminology. Right now I am thinking about the differences between "musical". https://www.arj.no/2007/11/06/bug-labs-lego-like-computer-modules/ Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/11/06/bug-labs-lego-like-computer-modules/ Bug Labs: Lego-like computer modules. Bug Labs has announced a new open source, Lego-like computer modules running Linux. The idea is to create hardware that. https://www.arj.no/2007/11/05/bodibeat/ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/11/05/bodibeat/ Bodibeat. {p501 .imagelink}Yamaha has announced a product called Bodibeat, a music player which will adjust the tempo of the music to follow your walking or. https://www.arj.no/2007/10/25/careers-after-music-psychology/ Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/10/25/careers-after-music-psychology/ Careers After Music Psychology. Richard Parncutt is asking for response from ex-music psychology students for the Careers After Music Psychology survey. If you. https://www.arj.no/2007/10/23/music-performance-research/ Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/10/23/music-performance-research/ Music Performance Research. I heard about the initiative last year at Music & Gesture 2 in Manchester, and now I see that the new online journal Music. https://www.arj.no/2007/10/16/peter-elsea-max-tutorials/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/10/16/peter-elsea-max-tutorials/ Peter Elsea Max tutorials. Peter Elsea recently announced an updated version of his Max/MSP tutorial. They are great at explaining many of the basics in. https://www.arj.no/2007/10/15/flash-movie-conversion-on-os-x/ Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/10/15/flash-movie-conversion-on-os-x/ Flash Movie Conversion on OS X. Looking for a solution to make flash movies on OS X, I came across this nice tutorial based on FFMPEGX. In terms of video. https://www.arj.no/2007/10/10/debut-of-the-nmh-laptop-orchestra/ Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/10/10/debut-of-the-nmh-laptop-orchestra/ Debut of the NMH Laptop Orchestra. As part of the Ultima festival and the opening of this year's Musikkteknologidagene, Kjell Tore Innervik and I organised the. https://www.arj.no/2007/10/03/radical-musicology/ Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/10/03/radical-musicology/ Radical Musicology. Radical Musicology is a peer-reviewed online journal produced in the International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University (UK). https://www.arj.no/2007/09/28/eduroam/ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/09/28/eduroam/ Eduroam. I just learned about Eduroam: Eduroam which stands for Education Roaming, is a RADIUS-based infrastructure that uses 802.1X security technology to. https://www.arj.no/2007/09/28/towards-active-music/ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/09/28/towards-active-music/ Towards Active Music... (or not). I am doing some background research for a paper on "active music" and have been testing various audio software over the last. https://www.arj.no/2007/09/25/idea-concept-product/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/09/25/idea-concept-product/ Idea, Concept, Product. Earlier today I went to the release seminar of a new book on creativity and idea development called Slagkraft - Håndbok i idéutvikling. https://www.arj.no/2007/09/25/musical-juggling/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/09/25/musical-juggling/ Video post on musical juggling and music-related body movements, exploring links between physical motion, rhythm, and performance in music and dance research. https://www.arj.no/2007/09/25/sumo-wrestlers/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/09/25/sumo-wrestlers/ Sumo wrestlers. Came across Sumotori Dreams, a sumo wrestling game based on physical models. The movements of the wrestlers seem to be based on some kind of. https://www.arj.no/2007/09/22/doepfer-usb64/ Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/09/22/doepfer-usb64/ Doepfer USB64. The new Doepfer USB64 Info looks very interesting with its 64 analog (or digital) inputs and €125 price tag. I am not so excited about the MIDI. https://www.arj.no/2007/09/20/giant-music-ball-2/ Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/09/20/giant-music-ball-2/ Giant Music Ball 2. We have been working on the Giant Music Ball all day. Besides soldering, aligning all the sensors was the biggest challenge. Here is a. https://www.arj.no/2007/09/19/giant-music-ball/ Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/09/19/giant-music-ball/ Giant Music Ball. I have been preparing for Forskningstorget, an annual science fair in the city centre of Oslo, the last couple of days. Last year we made a. https://www.arj.no/2007/09/14/jack-for-windows/ Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/09/14/jack-for-windows/ Jack for Windows. I see that Jack is now truly multiplatform, including Windows. jackdmp is a C++ version of the Jack low-latency audio server for Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2007/09/14/icast-you-iconcert-to-your-ifans-at-musikkteknologen/ Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/09/14/icast-you-iconcert-to-your-ifans-at-musikkteknologen/ Video broadcasting. Vegard mentioned QuickTime Broadcaster in a blog entry yesterday. While QT broadcaster is certainly easy to set up and use, I have found it. https://www.arj.no/2007/09/10/elearning-getting-to-uio/ Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/09/10/elearning-getting-to-uio/ eLearning getting to UiO. I have been complaining about the poor support for eLearning solutions at the University of Oslo for some years. I have tried. https://www.arj.no/2007/08/30/panel-at-icmc/ Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/08/30/panel-at-icmc/ Panel at ICMC. Yesterday I chaired a panel session at the International Computer Music Conference in Copenhagen entitled: "The Need of Formats for Streaming. https://www.arj.no/2007/08/26/cognitive-load-theory/ Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/08/26/cognitive-load-theory/ Cognitive Load Theory. I have been sitting through a number of presentations the last days (and many more will follow...), and came to think about some. https://www.arj.no/2007/08/26/interview-on-adhd/ Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/08/26/interview-on-adhd/ Interview on ADHD. On Friday I appeared in an interview in Aftenposten, one of the larger newspapers in Norway. The interview describes a recently started. https://www.arj.no/2007/08/26/muting-a-mac-on-startup/ Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/08/26/muting-a-mac-on-startup/ Muting a Mac on startup. One solution to avoiding that chime on booting your mac is to hold down the F3 key at startup. A more permanent solution is offered. https://www.arj.no/2007/08/16/reflections-on-a-phd-project-1/ Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/08/16/reflections-on-a-phd-project-1/ Reflections on a PhD project 1. I am slowly adjusting to normal life after finishing my dissertation in July. Needless to say, completing a dissertation is a. https://www.arj.no/2007/06/12/icmc-panel/ Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/06/12/icmc-panel/ ICMC panel. My panel proposal for ICMC 2007 in Copenhagen has been accepted. The title of the panel is The Need of Formats for Streaming and Storing Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2007/05/16/musikkteknologidagene-2007/ Wed, 16 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/05/16/musikkteknologidagene-2007/ Musikkteknologidagene 2007. Musikkteknologidagene 2007, a Norwegian contact meeting for people working in the field(s) of music technology, will be organised. https://www.arj.no/2007/05/15/journal-of-interdisciplinary-music-studies/ Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/05/15/journal-of-interdisciplinary-music-studies/ Journal of interdisciplinary music studies. There is a new music journal out titled Journal of interdisciplinary music studies, and which seems to be freely. https://www.arj.no/2007/05/13/multicontrol-is-updated/ Sun, 13 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/05/13/multicontrol-is-updated/ MultiControl is updated. {.imagelink}I have received a constant stream of questions for an Intel-version of the little MultiControl software I made many years. https://www.arj.no/2007/05/12/skim-v-03/ Sat, 12 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/05/12/skim-v-03/ Skim v 0.3. I recently became aware of Skim, a PDF Reader and note-taker for OS X made by the team behind BibDesk. Skim is designed to help reading and. https://www.arj.no/2007/05/10/bjork-to-tour-with-reactable/ Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/05/10/bjork-to-tour-with-reactable/ Björk to tour with Reactable. The MTG group at Pompeu Fabra reports that Björk will use the Reactable in her upcoming tour: With her first tour concert at the. https://www.arj.no/2007/04/21/file-search-in-bibdesk/ Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/04/21/file-search-in-bibdesk/ File search in Bibdesk. Bibdesk is just getting better! In version 1.3.4 they have included searching inside linked PDF files in the library. It is not as. https://www.arj.no/2007/04/11/cooperating-computer-music-languages/ Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/04/11/cooperating-computer-music-languages/ Cooperating Computer Music Languages. Brad Garton has posted an interesting blog entry about how he works with many different computer music languages from. https://www.arj.no/2007/04/05/choosing-the-right-video-format/ Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/04/05/choosing-the-right-video-format/ Choosing the Right Video Format. The discussion about video standards for live processing has been summarised as: Codec: Motion.jpg (for interlaced footage) or. https://www.arj.no/2007/04/05/dexter-the-lemur-follow-up/ Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/04/05/dexter-the-lemur-follow-up/ Dexter, the Lemur follow-up. Dexter is the new product from JazzMutant, following the Lemur as a multitouch control interface. I find performing with the Lemur. https://www.arj.no/2007/04/03/oxford-dictionary-in-textmate/ Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/04/03/oxford-dictionary-in-textmate/ Oxford Dictionary in TextMate. After working with TextMate for a couple of weeks, I have decided to stay there and leave TexShop behind for my LaTeX editing. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/30/when-will-we-see-some-innovation-in-the-music-tech-industry/ Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/30/when-will-we-see-some-innovation-in-the-music-tech-industry/ When will we see some innovation in the music tech industry?. In a 1995 ICMC paper, Todd Winkler wrote: If Leon Theremin were alive today, he would be amused. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/29/cycling-74-collaborating-with-ableton/ Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/29/cycling-74-collaborating-with-ableton/ Cycling '74 collaborating with Ableton. David Zicarelli has posted an interesting note about a new collaboration between Cycling '74 and Ableton. Ableton Live. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/29/drag-and-drop-pictures-in-textmate/ Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/29/drag-and-drop-pictures-in-textmate/ Drag and drop pictures in TextMate. After being convinced by Tim, I have started using TextMate for text editing things. Right now I am mostly interested in. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/26/etienne-jules-marey-1830-1904/ Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/26/etienne-jules-marey-1830-1904/ Étienne-Jules Marey (1830 - 1904). Came across a great website with lots of references to the work of Étienne-Jules Marey (1830 - 1904), a pioneer in early. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/24/jamoma-workshops/ Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/24/jamoma-workshops/ Jamoma Workshops. We rounded up the "Jamoma week" with a workshop for a small crowd of power Max users at Ars Longa in Paris today. This time I think we were. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/24/sd-usb-card/ Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/24/sd-usb-card/ SD USB card. There are very few items that make me happy every time I use them, but my Sandisk SD memory card is one of them. I have had it for around a year. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/22/user-community-and-roi/ Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/22/user-community-and-roi/ Reading this post, and viewing the picture below, I came to think about the dynamics of the Max/MSP community: By Alexander Refsum Jensenius on music. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/21/gui-and-control/ Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/21/gui-and-control/ GUI and control. The idea behind the current implementation of Jamoma is based on separating GUI from algorithm. Currently this is solved by having the. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/21/technical-parameters/ Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/21/technical-parameters/ Technical Parameters. I have been thinking a lot about GUIs, namespaces and control parameters over the last couple of days. One of the big challenges we are. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/19/active-music-2/ Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/19/active-music-2/ Active Music. Tod Machover's article Shaping Minds Musically is an interesting read, summarising much of the work on hyperinstruments that have happened at the. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/19/jamoma-workshop-day-1/ Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/19/jamoma-workshop-day-1/ Jamoma workshop day 1. A couple of pictures from the Jamoma workshop which started in Albi today, a lovely little town in Southern France. Most of the day has. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/15/interactive-soundscapes/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/15/interactive-soundscapes/ Interactive Soundscapes. The Interactive Soundscapes project is about creating soundscapes intuitively. Samples can be loaded, simple effects can be added, and. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/15/isssm-2007/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/15/isssm-2007/ ISSSM 2007. Students in musicology, music cognition and technology should consider ISSSM 2007: Following on the success of the first international summer. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/15/mac-os-x-startup-keys/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/15/mac-os-x-startup-keys/ Mac OS X Startup Keys. I tried to update to 10.4.9 yesterday, but got an error message, and when booting everything hangs. I haven't found a good solution yet. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/15/macos-x-1049-update-problems/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/15/macos-x-1049-update-problems/ MacOS X 10.4.9 Update Problems. I had the rather unpleasant experience of trying to update to 10.4.9 last night, which crashed and left my computer hang on. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/15/os-x-keyboard-shortcuts/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/15/os-x-keyboard-shortcuts/ OS X keyboard shortcuts. I also came across a list of useful keyboard shortcuts, the most interesting being: cmd opt i - to get "Super Get Info.", a floating. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/14/emma-extensible-multimodal-annotation-markup-language/ Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/14/emma-extensible-multimodal-annotation-markup-language/ EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language. Strange that I didn't see this before. Apparently, W3C has made a draft for multimodal annotation. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/13/export-bibtex-from-google-scholar/ Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/13/export-bibtex-from-google-scholar/ Export BibTex from Google Scholar. I just realised that it is possible to export BibTex entries directly from Google Scholar. This, and other bibliography. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/12/pareto-principle/ Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/12/pareto-principle/ Pareto principle. The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/12/scplugin/ Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/12/scplugin/ SCPLugin. Tim's post on Version Control Options made me install the SCPlugin which is somehow similar to TortoiseSVN for Windows. The nice thing is that it is. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/10/jamoma-04/ Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/10/jamoma-04/ Jamoma 0.4. After a lot of hard work, Jamoma 0.4 has been released. This is a major upgrade from 0.3, the most important being that now all the core objects. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/10/musical-objects-action-sound-couplings-and-open-form/ Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/10/musical-objects-action-sound-couplings-and-open-form/ Musical Objects, Action Sound Couplings and Open Form. Participating in the Open Form rehearsals and workshops has been very interesting (as previously. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/08/delete-button/ Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/08/delete-button/ Delete-button. I need to be better at using the delete-button. Computers have made it so easy to write and save lots of text, probably too easy. Since there. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/08/open-form-workshop/ Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/08/open-form-workshop/ Open Form Workshop. In between everything else I will be participating in the Open Form Workshop at the Music Academy this weekend. Christian Wolff), the last. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/28/audiopint/ Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/28/audiopint/ AudioPint. The AudioPint project at MIT aims at creating a computer based system that is as portable and stable as hardware gear: Consider a system that is. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/28/jon-olave-eikenes-diploma-project/ Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/28/jon-olave-eikenes-diploma-project/ Jon Olav Eikenes' Diploma Project. Jon Olav Eikenes has posted information about his diploma project on control of sound spatialisation at the department of. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/27/mit-mas960-principles-of-electronic-music-controllers/ Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/27/mit-mas960-principles-of-electronic-music-controllers/ MIT: MAS.960 Principles of Electronic Music Controllers. Came across the web site of MIT course MAS.960 Principles of Electronic Music Controllers, which has. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/23/jilltxt-the-novelty-of-blogs-is-wearing-off/ Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/23/jilltxt-the-novelty-of-blogs-is-wearing-off/ jill/txt » the novelty of blogs is wearing off?. jill/txt is discussing whether the novelty of blogs is wearing off: For the second semester running, I have. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/22/fidgeting/ Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/22/fidgeting/ Fidgeting. Yesterday, Jeroen Arendsen introduced me to the concept of fidgeting, the stuff that happens in between actions/gestures in a continuous flux of. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/22/msp-tilde-in-latex/ Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/22/msp-tilde-in-latex/ MSP tilde in LaTeX. I spent a couple of minutes trying to figure out how to create a nice tilde (\) for writing the name of Max/MSP externals in LaTeX (e.g. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/21/movement-action-and-gesture-revisited/ Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/21/movement-action-and-gesture-revisited/ Actions can be based on both movement and touch. Ok, so I have been discussing the concepts of movement, action and gesture with various people since I posted. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/21/multiple-bibliographies-in-latex/ Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/21/multiple-bibliographies-in-latex/ Multiple bibliographies in LaTeX. I have been wondering how to make a separate bibliography of my own publications as an appendix in my dissertation. Vincent. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/20/bc-spreadsheet/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/20/bc-spreadsheet/ BC Spreadsheet. I have been looking for a lightweight spreadsheet software, as Excel isn't in universal yet and is nearly as slow as NeoOffice to start up. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/20/concordance/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/20/concordance/ Concordance. DevonThink Pro has a concordance function that counts all the words in my research database, currently containing a little more than one thousand. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/20/recording-hoax/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/20/recording-hoax/ Recording Hoax. Craig Sapp (formerly at CCARH now at CHARM) writes: I have been analyzing the performances of Chopin Mazurkas and have been noticing an unusual. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/20/some-thoughts-on-gdif/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/20/some-thoughts-on-gdif/ Some thoughts on GDIF. We had a meeting about GDIF at McGill yesterday, and I realised that people had very different thoughts about what it is and what it can. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/17/bob-ludwig-on-surround-mixing/ Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/17/bob-ludwig-on-surround-mixing/ Bob Ludwig on Surround Mixing. I went to a speech on surround mixing (5.1) last night by Bob Ludwig of Gateway Mastering. He spent a lot of time talking about. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/17/movement-and-action/ Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/17/movement-and-action/ Movement versus Action. Just to clarify: I am using the term action to denote chunks of movement: Action is thus highly subjective, it is just a mental. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/17/movement-action-gesture-2/ Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/17/movement-action-gesture-2/ Movement, action, gesture revisited. Ever since I started my PhD project I have been struggling with the word gesture. Now as I am working on a theory chapter. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/17/on-reading-and-writing-blogs/ Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/17/on-reading-and-writing-blogs/ On reading and writing blogs. I am spending quite a bit of time on reading and writing blogs, e-mail lists and forums every day. After talking to a person that. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/17/trond-lossius-fellowship-report/ Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/17/trond-lossius-fellowship-report/ Trond Lossius' fellowship report. I spent my flight to Montreal (which became much longer than I expected when I was rescheduled through Chicago) reading Trond. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/16/mind-maps/ Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/16/mind-maps/ Mind maps. After reading Ola's blog entry about content management, I decided to give MindManager a try. Except for the price tag (luckily they have Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/15/tag-clouds/ Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/15/tag-clouds/ Tag Clouds. TagCrowd is an online tool for creating tag clouds from any text to visualize word frequency. Tag clouds have become popular on Flickr and a number. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/12/brad-garton-2/ Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/12/brad-garton-2/ Brad Garton. I came across Brad Garton's blog via Tim. It starts: Last week I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a fairly bad cancer of the bone marrow. The. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/12/critical-thinking-about-word-and-doc/ Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/12/critical-thinking-about-word-and-doc/ Critical Thinking About Word and .doc. A comment on why university teachers should think critically about Word and .doc: Many of us teach cultural analysis and. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/12/how-to-prevent-long-url-wrapping-in-most-email-apps/ Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/12/how-to-prevent-long-url-wrapping-in-most-email-apps/ How to prevent long URL wrapping in most email apps. I learn new things every day. Gisela just sent me a hint about putting those super-long URLs between. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/12/managing-complex-patches-in-max/ Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/12/managing-complex-patches-in-max/ Managing Complex Patches in Max. Arne Eigenfeldt has written a Cycling '74 blog entry about Managing Complex Patches in Max: One of the beauties of Max is its. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/08/interdisciplinarity-2/ Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/08/interdisciplinarity-2/ Adding Disciplines to Two-dimensional Interdisciplinarity Sketch. It is always difficult to categorise things, since it is always possible to think of other. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/08/msc-in-music-tech-at-georgia-tech/ Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/08/msc-in-music-tech-at-georgia-tech/ MSc in Music Tech at Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech has been hiring a young and interesting music tech faculty over the last years, and now they start a Master of. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/08/interdisciplinarity/ Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/08/interdisciplinarity/ Two-dimensional Interdisciplinarity Sketch. I am working on the introduction to my dissertation, and am trying to place my work in a context. Officially, I'm. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/08/windows-vista-soundscape/ Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/08/windows-vista-soundscape/ Windows Vista soundscape. I wrote this blog entry several months ago, but never posted it because I thought I would have time to go back and evaluate the. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/05/phd-phd-and-other-abbreviations/ Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/05/phd-phd-and-other-abbreviations/ PhD, ph.d. and other abbreviations. PhD degrees are new in Norway. Until a couple of years ago, each faculty used to have their own degrees: dr.art., dr.ing. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/05/vancouver-guidelines/ Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/05/vancouver-guidelines/ Vancouver guidelines. As a member of the university's research committee, I have been reading the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/04/youtube-web-20-the-machine-is-using-us/ Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/04/youtube-web-20-the-machine-is-using-us/ YouTube - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us. A great little movie about the internet (html, xml, hypertext, etc.) by Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor. https://www.arj.no/2007/01/29/optical-illusions-and-visual-phenomena/ Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/01/29/optical-illusions-and-visual-phenomena/ Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena. Talking about optical illusions, here's a bunch of them. Great that many of them are made as javascripts so that the. https://www.arj.no/2007/01/26/electrotap-blog-show/ Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/01/26/electrotap-blog-show/ Wormhole in Jamoma. Tim Place has posted a very interesting idea about handling presets and time: We both came up with what essentially the same idea expressed. https://www.arj.no/2007/01/24/concert-at-the-academy/ Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/01/24/concert-at-the-academy/ Concert at the Academy. [ ]{.imagelink}Dagsavisen wrote a story about the experimental concert I played with Kjell Tore Innervik (quarter tone marimba) and. https://www.arj.no/2007/01/24/petition-for-guaranteed-public-access-to-publicly-funded-research-results/ Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/01/24/petition-for-guaranteed-public-access-to-publicly-funded-research-results/ Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results. Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results In January. https://www.arj.no/2007/01/16/novint-falcon-2/ Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/01/16/novint-falcon-2/ NOVINT Falcon. {.imagelink}NOVINT has finally got around to release Falcon the much awaited first, cheap haptic controller. I have my doubts about how solid. https://www.arj.no/2007/01/14/iphone-sensing/ Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/01/14/iphone-sensing/ iPhone sensing. As I have mentioned elsewhere, I am thrilled by the fact that various sensing technologies are getting so cheap that they are incorporated. https://www.arj.no/2007/01/12/vibrating-plates/ Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/01/12/vibrating-plates/ Vibrating Plates. Derek Kverno and Jim Nolen have studied the vibration of circular, square and rectangular plates with unbound edges, and have posted som very. https://www.arj.no/2007/01/11/gestures-and-technology/ Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/01/11/gestures-and-technology/ Gestures and technology. What I find most fascinating about Apple's new iPhone, is the shift from buttons to body. Getting away from the paradigm of pressing. https://www.arj.no/2007/01/11/smart-programs/ Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/01/11/smart-programs/ Smart programs. I had a discussion about which software tools I use for my research, so here is a list of the most important (in no particular order): Firefox. https://www.arj.no/2007/01/10/the-laws-of-simplicity--laws/ Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/01/10/the-laws-of-simplicity--laws/ The Laws of Simplicity. John Maeda's Laws of Simplicity: REDUCE – The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction ORGANIZE – Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2007/01/06/tim-place-on-parameter-control/ Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/01/06/tim-place-on-parameter-control/ Tim Place on parameter control. Gregory Taylor has made an interview with Tim Place about Hipno. It is interesting how he comments about the Hipnoscope. https://www.arj.no/2007/01/02/how-to-sell-your-book-cd-or-dvd-on-amazon-2/ Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/01/02/how-to-sell-your-book-cd-or-dvd-on-amazon-2/ How to Sell Your Book, CD, or DVD on Amazon. How to distribute things through Amazon. Get an ISBN (for a book), or a UPC (for a CD or DVD). For one book it. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/31/5-ways-to-use-quicksilver/ Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/31/5-ways-to-use-quicksilver/ 5 Ways to use Quicksilver. I came across Dave Parry's blog academhack, with some interesting comments on Mac software in an academic context. I was Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/31/noise/ Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/31/noise/ Noise. If you ever wanted some nice, pink noise in the background while working on your computer, Noise is the tool! Apparently, lots of people use this to try. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/29/latex-table-of-contents-tricks/ Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/29/latex-table-of-contents-tricks/ LaTeX: Table of Contents tricks. As my dissertation draft grows bigger (and messier...), I see that I need to restrict the depth of the Table of Contents. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/20/movement-action-gesture/ Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/20/movement-action-gesture/ Gesture confusion. I have been struggling with the word gesture for a while. I, and many others in the music cognition/technology community, have been using it. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/20/hattens-musical-gestures-2/ Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/20/hattens-musical-gestures-2/ Hatten's Musical Gestures. An interesting quote from Robert Hatten's 2004 book on musical gestures: Musical gesture is biologically and culturally grounded in. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/20/how-to-shut-up-and-get-to-work/ Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/20/how-to-shut-up-and-get-to-work/ How to Shut up and Get to Work!. Joel Spolsky writes about flow: We all know that knowledge workers work best by getting into “flow”, also known as being “in. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/20/linear-presentations/ Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/20/linear-presentations/ Linear presentations. I have been thinking about what I wrote about improvisation a couple of weeks ago. While preparing for a presentation last week, I was. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/20/movement-sound-couplings/ Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/20/movement-sound-couplings/ Movement-Sound Couplings. I am working on the theory chapter of my dissertation, and am trying to pin down some terminology. For a long time I have been using. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/18/spectator-listener/ Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/18/spectator-listener/ Spectator-listener. Usually, we use the word listener when describing the perceiver in a musical context. This, however, does not fit well with the premise of. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/08/music-troll-performance/ Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/08/music-troll-performance/ Music troll performance. I performed with the music troll yesterday. It has been resting in the lab for a couple of months, and was a bit "rusty" to start up. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/06/on-improvisation/ Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/06/on-improvisation/ On Improvisation. Yesterday, someone commented that improvisation is all about being able to play some random stuff, in realtime. My experience is really the. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/05/citeulike-and-bibdesk/ Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/05/citeulike-and-bibdesk/ CiteULike and BibDesk. I have started testing CiteULike for creating an online bibliography, and came across this blog post on using CiteULike and BibDesk. I. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/05/why-blog-for-documentary/ Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/05/why-blog-for-documentary/ Why Blog for Documentary?. Adrian Miles writes about why blogging is interesting for documentary film makers, and summarizes the discussion into the following. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/04/v001/ Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/04/v001/ v001. Vade has posted a system called v001 for Max/MSP: v001 is meant to help bring a structured method for building modular and reusable performance patches. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/04/wiimote-used-as-a-mouse-on-windows/ Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/04/wiimote-used-as-a-mouse-on-windows/ Video demo of using a Nintendo WiiMote as a mouse on Windows, an early experiment in alternative music technology interfaces and motion-based control. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/04/youos-a-web-operating-system/ Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/04/youos-a-web-operating-system/ YouOS: A Web Operating System. Jamie just pointed me to YouOS, an operating system running entirely within a web browser: YouOS and its applications run. https://www.arj.no/2006/12/01/guest-lecture-benot-bardy/ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/01/guest-lecture-benot-bardy/ Guest lecture: Benoît Bardy. Benoît Bardy held a very interesting guest lecture on the topic "Perception-Action Dynamics Underlying Gesture Classification". https://www.arj.no/2006/12/01/icmc-07--call-for-papers/ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/12/01/icmc-07--call-for-papers/ ICMC 2007. The preliminary web page for ICMC 2007 is up. The conference will take place in Copenhagen from 27 to 31 August 2007. The submission deadline is 31. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/23/profcasting/ Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/23/profcasting/ Profcasting. Adrian Miles coins the term "profcasting" about academic podcasting: One of the reasons podcasting has had such an easy adoption within Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/23/thinking-in-graphics/ Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/23/thinking-in-graphics/ Thinking in graphics. I am very visually oriented and often prefer some graphic representation over text. Now, as I am starting to get into the writing face of. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/16/icmc-2006-saturday-11-day-6/ Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/16/icmc-2006-saturday-11-day-6/ ICMC 2006 - Saturday 11 (Day 6). Interesting things from ICMC 2006 day 6: Matt Wright (CNMAT) talked about CNMAT's work on augmented guitar and 6-string cello. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/16/m-audio-midair/ Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/16/m-audio-midair/ M-AUDIO - MidAir. M-Audio has released MidAir a wireless MIDI transmitter and receiver system. The system is also able to synchronize between several. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/15/icmc-2006-friday-10-day-5/ Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/15/icmc-2006-friday-10-day-5/ ICMC 2006 - Friday 10 (Day 5). Interesting things from ICMC 2006 day 5: Max Matthews (CCRMA) spoke about phase filters The algorithm is a difference equation. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/12/icmc-2006-thursday-9-day-4/ Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/12/icmc-2006-thursday-9-day-4/ ICMC 2006 - Thursday 9 (Day 4). Interesting things from ICMC 2006 day 4: Dan Overholt (CREATE, UCSB) talked about the CUI interface based around a PIC. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/12/icmc-2006-tuesday-7-day-2/ Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/12/icmc-2006-tuesday-7-day-2/ ICMC 2006 - Tuesday 7 (Day 2). Interesting things from ICMC 2006 day 2: Tim Place presented Jamoma. Golan Levin presented a very interesting project on. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/12/icmc-2006-wednesday-8-day-3/ Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/12/icmc-2006-wednesday-8-day-3/ ICMC 2006 - Wednesday 8 (Day 3). Interesting things from ICMC 2006 day 3: Philippe Kocher (ICST) had a very nice presentation of the ICST ambisonics modules he. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/11/icmc-2006-monday-6-day-1/ Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/11/icmc-2006-monday-6-day-1/ ICMC 2006 - Monday 6 (Day 1). Day 1 of ICMC 2006 was hot and humid before the rain... Woon Seung Yeo (CCRMA) presented raster scanning, a technique for sound. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/11/icmc-2006-sunday-day-0/ Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/11/icmc-2006-sunday-day-0/ ICMC 2006 - Sunday 5 (Day 0). This last week has been quite busy here at ICMC in New Orleans. I have been writing notes along the way, and the idea is to. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/08/auto-completion-in-os-x/ Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/08/auto-completion-in-os-x/ Auto-Completion in OS X. Just learned that it is possible to get auto-completion with the Esc and F5 Keys in all Cocoa applications. Just start typing, hit the. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/08/set-headphone-volume-level-on-intel-macs/ Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/08/set-headphone-volume-level-on-intel-macs/ Set headphone volume level on Intel Macs. Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Set headphone volume level on Intel Macs If you’ve got a new Intel-powered Mac, here’s a. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/07/icmc-demography/ Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/07/icmc-demography/ ICMC statistics. I was curious to see some demographic figures for this year's ICMC, so I looked up the number of times various countries are mentioned in the. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/03/pd-is-a-programming-language/ Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/03/pd-is-a-programming-language/ Pd *is* a programming language!. Many people often question whether Max/MSP, PD and other graphical environments can be considered programming languages. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/03/tapestrea/ Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/03/tapestrea/ Tapestrea. TAPESTREA (or taps) is a unified framework for interactively analyzing, transforming and synthesizing complex sounds. Given one or more recordings. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/02/arduino/ Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/02/arduino/ Arduino. Seems like the Arduino community is growing quickly. Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/02/audacity-13/ Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/02/audacity-13/ Audacity 1.3. There's a new beta of Audacity 1.3 out. Previous versions have been somewhat unstable and lacking features, but now it starts to improve: \- New. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/01/making-conference-posters/ Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/01/making-conference-posters/ Making conference posters. InDesign used to be my program of choice for design issues, but since it is super-slow on my MacIntel I have been looking for. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/01/motiongrams/ Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/01/motiongrams/ Motiongrams. Challenge Traditional keyframe displays of videos are not particularly useful when studying single-shot studio recordings of music-related. https://www.arj.no/2006/10/30/trond-lossius-on-sound-art/ Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/10/30/trond-lossius-on-sound-art/ Trond Lossius on sound art. In an interview, Trond Lossius discusses his take on sound art. He mentions how he treats video as an advanced spotlight, giving. https://www.arj.no/2006/10/17/compare-or-merge-two-folders-contents/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/10/17/compare-or-merge-two-folders-contents/ Compare or merge two folders' contents. I had some SVN problems, and figured it would probably be faster to do a full new checkout rather than trying to figure. https://www.arj.no/2006/10/16/nomute-2006/ Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/10/16/nomute-2006/ NoMuTe 2006. Just back from the 1st Nordic Music Technology Conference organized by NTNU in connection with Trondheim MatchMaking organized by TEKS. This is. https://www.arj.no/2006/10/11/jade-under-lgpl/ Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/10/11/jade-under-lgpl/ Jade under LGPL. Tim Place just announced that Jade is now open sourced under LGPL. Jade is a flexible, relatively easy-to-use, environment for composition and. https://www.arj.no/2006/10/11/lego-instruments/ Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/10/11/lego-instruments/ Lego instruments. A group of German students are working on a project called Stekgreif where they include a number of popular sensors built as lego-blocks. https://www.arj.no/2006/10/09/login-sonalog-gypsy-midi/ Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/10/09/login-sonalog-gypsy-midi/ Gypsy MIDI controller. Nick Rothwell reviews the Gypsy MIDI controller in Sound on Sound. An excerpt from his conclusion: I know some artists who could build. https://www.arj.no/2006/10/09/norges-forskningsrad/ Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/10/09/norges-forskningsrad/ Performance in the Concert Hall. I found some pictures from my performance in the Oslo Concert Hall yesterday. Here I'm squeezing the music troll. Each of the. https://www.arj.no/2006/09/29/norwegian-science-fair/ Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/09/29/norwegian-science-fair/ Norwegian Science Fair. Last weekend we participated (again) with a stand at a big science fair down in the city centre of Oslo during the Norwegian Research. https://www.arj.no/2006/09/27/musical-gestures-in-the-oslo-concert-hall/ Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/09/27/musical-gestures-in-the-oslo-concert-hall/ Musical Gestures in the Oslo Concert Hall. I have been busy with a number of things lately, most notably preparing for a performance during the Norwegian. https://www.arj.no/2006/09/19/myron-computer-vision-for-artists/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/09/19/myron-computer-vision-for-artists/ Myron - Computer Vision for Artists. Myron is the cross-platform, cross-language, open source, video capture and computer vision plugin. One core C object gets. https://www.arj.no/2006/09/19/nokia-5500/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/09/19/nokia-5500/ Nokia 5500. Nokia 5500 is a new sport phone with a built in pedometer and the ability to use gestures (well, only tapping so far) for controlling music. https://www.arj.no/2006/09/19/inhabitat/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/09/19/inhabitat/ Photonic textiles. Philips Research is currently showing off a their new Photonic Textiles at the IFA Consumer Electronics Fair in Berlin. The Photonic Fabric. https://www.arj.no/2006/09/19/sequencer-programming/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/09/19/sequencer-programming/ Sequencer Programming. In a Sneak Peek for OS X Leopard, Apple shows a debugging mode in Xcode that works something like music sequencers. Taking its interface. https://www.arj.no/2006/09/15/mac-mini-and-vnc/ Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/09/15/mac-mini-and-vnc/ Mac Mini and VNC. As part of the Musikkball project, we are making a "music ball troll" for the science fair Forskningstorget in Oslo next week. I have been. https://www.arj.no/2006/09/02/stevenberlinjohnsoncom-tool-for-thought/ Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/09/02/stevenberlinjohnsoncom-tool-for-thought/ DevonThink. Steven Berlin Johnson has an interesting blog entry on his use of DevonThink Pro: Over the past few years of working with this approach, I've. https://www.arj.no/2006/09/02/firefox-scholar/ Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/09/02/firefox-scholar/ Firefox Scholar. Firefox Scholar is a set of extensions to the popular open source web browser that will: \- Recognize and capture metadata from online objects. https://www.arj.no/2006/08/22/apple-remote-control/ Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/08/22/apple-remote-control/ Apple Remote Control. I am getting adjusted to my new MacBook and have realized that the remote control is a funny little thing. Cool features: Works with. https://www.arj.no/2006/08/22/soundflower/ Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/08/22/soundflower/ Soundflower. Soundflower from Cycling '74, a small freeware utility allowing internal audio routing under OS X, is available in Universal Binary for MacTel. https://www.arj.no/2006/08/19/test/ Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/08/19/test/ A researcher's life. I overheard a conversation the other day where a person commented that university researchers have such a relaxed life, only sitting in. https://www.arj.no/2006/08/18/moving-towards-hdd-video-cameras/ Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/08/18/moving-towards-hdd-video-cameras/ Moving towards HDD video cameras. I have been using the JVC Everio GZMC500, one of the first hard drive based video cameras with a decent price tag and ok. https://www.arj.no/2006/08/02/microsoft-live-labs-photosynth/ Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/08/02/microsoft-live-labs-photosynth/ Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth. Researchers at Microsoft Live Labs are working on Photosynth based on Photo Tourism from the University of Washington. By. https://www.arj.no/2006/08/02/unhappy-hour-new-york-times/ Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/08/02/unhappy-hour-new-york-times/ Unhappy Hour. I found (via Trond's blog) the funny story Unhappy Hour about a group of people getting stuck with a jukebox playing Brian Eno's Thursday. https://www.arj.no/2006/08/01/rtfft-a-realtime-spectrum-analyzer/ Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/08/01/rtfft-a-realtime-spectrum-analyzer/ RtFFT: A realtime spectrum analyzer. RtFFT by Gary P. Scavone is a fairly basic realtime spectrum analyzer. It can simultaneously display an arbitrary number. https://www.arj.no/2006/07/31/khronos-projector/ Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/07/31/khronos-projector/ Khronos Projector. The Khronos Projector by Alvaro Cassinelli is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an. https://www.arj.no/2006/07/17/new-book-new-digital-musical-instruments-control-and-interaction-beyond-the-keyboard/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/07/17/new-book-new-digital-musical-instruments-control-and-interaction-beyond-the-keyboard/ New book on digital musical instruments by Eduardo Miranda and Marcelo Wanderley, covering control and interaction beyond the keyboard in music technology research. https://www.arj.no/2006/07/15/electromyography/ Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/07/15/electromyography/ Electromyography. For some experiments we are conducting on piano playing I have been looking for a way of measuring muscle activity, or electromyography as it. https://www.arj.no/2006/07/15/vlog-30-a-blog-about-vogs--is-labsome-a-place/ Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/07/15/vlog-30-a-blog-about-vogs--is-labsome-a-place/ vlog 3.0 [a blog about vogs] » Is Labsome a Place?. Adrian Miles has an interesting reflection on the lack of a "place" to work in traditional humanities. https://www.arj.no/2006/07/11/beam-foundation/ Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/07/11/beam-foundation/ BEAM Foundation. In a discussion of "the most complex Max patch", Barry Threw pointed to the patch used by TrioMetrik, the ensemble of the BEAM Foundation. https://www.arj.no/2006/07/11/reactive-sound-system/ Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/07/11/reactive-sound-system/ Reactive Sound System. The Reactive Sound System adds sounds to the current soundscape, either to mask for example speech, or to make unpleasant sounds more. https://www.arj.no/2006/07/07/computers-getting-slower/ Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/07/07/computers-getting-slower/ Computers getting slower.... Gordon Moore, founder of Intel, observed that computer processor complexity approximately doubled every eighteen months. This. https://www.arj.no/2006/07/05/nime-paper-on-gdif/ Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/07/05/nime-paper-on-gdif/ NIME paper on GDIF. Here is the poster I presented at NIME 2006 in Paris based on the paper Towards a Gesture Description Interchange Format. The paper was. https://www.arj.no/2006/06/27/emotionally-intelligent-interfaces/ Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/06/27/emotionally-intelligent-interfaces/ Emotionally intelligent interfaces. Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge) are working on emotionally intelligent interfaces, and have made a setup for a. https://www.arj.no/2006/06/26/occam-osc-midi-converter/ Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/06/26/occam-osc-midi-converter/ Occam - OSC-MIDI converter. Occam takes OSC messages and converts them to MIDI. It exports a MIDI source to CoreMIDI which can be used in any Mac OS X. https://www.arj.no/2006/06/22/nime-06-installations/ Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/06/22/nime-06-installations/ NIME 06 Installations. Still trying to get through all my notes from Resonances... Of the many installations at NIME 06, I found three of them particularly. https://www.arj.no/2006/06/21/icmc-papers/ Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/06/21/icmc-papers/ ICMC papers. My paper entitled "Using motiongrams in the study of musical gestures" was accepted to ICMC 06 in New Orleans. The abstract is: Navigating through. https://www.arj.no/2006/06/21/interaction-design/ Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/06/21/interaction-design/ Interaction Design. We have started a collaboration between between UiO and AHO, and some of the music technology students followed courses with the Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2006/06/08/misc-osc-stuff/ Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/06/08/misc-osc-stuff/ Misc. OSC stuff. I got to learn about a number of interesting OSC-related stuff during the OSC developers' meeting at NIME today: HID2OSC from the KeyWorx. https://www.arj.no/2006/06/08/nime-day-4/ Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/06/08/nime-day-4/ NIME. There are so many things happening, so I'm seriously lagging behind in writing up my summaries about what is going on. Here are some interesting things. https://www.arj.no/2006/06/08/nime-06-concert-3/ Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/06/08/nime-06-concert-3/ NIME 06 Concerts. There were lots of concerts at NIME 06, and many interesting things to comment about. Ben Neill played Mutantrumpet, a hybrid acoustical and. https://www.arj.no/2006/06/05/wireless-usb-midi-controller/ Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/06/05/wireless-usb-midi-controller/ Wireless USB MIDI Controller. M-Audio has released the MidAir USB MIDI controller which is basically a wireless version of Oxygen 8. It is great that more. https://www.arj.no/2006/06/04/nime-workshop-marc-downie/ Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/06/04/nime-workshop-marc-downie/ NIME Workshop: Dance and Technology. Choreographer Dawn Stoppiello and composer/media artist Mark Coniglio of Troika Ranch talked about their work. They are. https://www.arj.no/2006/06/01/building-low-cost-music-controllers/ Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/06/01/building-low-cost-music-controllers/ Building low-cost music controllers. New publication on our Cheapstick music controller: Reference: A. R. Jensenius, R. Koehly, and M. M. Wanderley. Building. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/29/united-states-patent-application-0060107822/ Mon, 29 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/29/united-states-patent-application-0060107822/ United States Patent Application: 0060107822. Apple has recently filed an interesting US Patent Application: The invention generally pertains to a hand-held. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/27/deep-listening-institute-ltd/ Sat, 27 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/27/deep-listening-institute-ltd/ Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.. Doug pointed me to Deep Listening: Deep Listening is a philosophy and practice developed by Pauline Oliveros that distinguishes. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/23/nikeipod/ Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/23/nikeipod/ Nike+iPod. Apple and Nike has teamed up and released the Nike+iPod package, which allows for using an iPod Nano as a pedometer and share the training. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/22/political-eurovision-song-contest/ Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/22/political-eurovision-song-contest/ Political Eurovision Song Contest. The Eurovision Song Contest (or Melodi Grand Prix as it often called) is a bizarre annual music competition broadcasted over. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/21/kore-universal-sound-platform/ Sun, 21 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/21/kore-universal-sound-platform/ KORE Universal Sound Platform. Native instruments states that KORE should be the new universal sound platform solving "all problems" in large music software. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/21/usb-guitar/ Sun, 21 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/21/usb-guitar/ USB Guitar. Seems like everything is getting USB-connectivity these days. The Samson condenser microphone has been out for a while, and not Behringer is. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/20/sonic-visualiser/ Sat, 20 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/20/sonic-visualiser/ Sonic Visualiser. {.imagelink}Sonic Visualiser from Queen Mary's is yet another software tool for visualizing audio content. However, there are some features. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/19/max-stuff/ Fri, 19 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/19/max-stuff/ int.lib by Oli Larkin. {.imagelink}int.lib is a set of abstractions/javascripts for Cycling 74’s Max MSP software that facilitates the control of multiple. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/18/nintendo-wii/ Thu, 18 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/18/nintendo-wii/ Nintendo Wii. Nintendo Wii features a wireless controller, with rumbling, sound and some kind of motion sensing (probably a 3D accelerometer?). It is good to. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/17/blogging/ Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/17/blogging/ Blogging. Katherine Wilson writes about how she underestimated blogging when she got started: At the start I underestimated what it could be used for. It's a. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/17/orbicule-products/ Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/17/orbicule-products/ Orbicule Products. Orbicule has some interesting computer theft software for Apple computers. If stolen the Undercover software will take pictures at regular. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/17/pdf-reading/ Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/17/pdf-reading/ PDF reading. Marc Hedlund at O'Reilly summarizes the good things about PDF books: \- They are searchable. They are portable. They can often be bought and. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/15/laser-sound-performance/ Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/15/laser-sound-performance/ Laser Sound Performance. A memorable show during the Elektrafestival was the Laser Sound Performance by Edwin van der Heide. He used two lasers and (I think). https://www.arj.no/2006/05/13/marnix-de-nijs-media-artist/ Sat, 13 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/13/marnix-de-nijs-media-artist/ Marnix de Nijs, media artist. {.imagelink}The installation Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h) by Marnix de Nijs and Edwin van der Heide. Spatial Sounds 100 dB. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/11/designklicks/ Thu, 11 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/11/designklicks/ DesignKlicks. Nils showed me this nice picture site called DesignKlicks from Spiegel Online. It is this 3d-picture space where you can move around and look at. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/11/why-do-they-play-so-loud/ Thu, 11 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/11/why-do-they-play-so-loud/ Why do they play so loud?. I often go to concerts, and too often I find the need to use ear plugs because of loud sound levels. I really don't get it, why is. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/09/cycling-74-maxmsp-working-with-max-is-not-easy/ Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/09/cycling-74-maxmsp-working-with-max-is-not-easy/ Cycling '74: MaxMSP => Working with Max is not easy. Found an interesting thread on the Max list entitled Working with Max is not easy. But what is easy. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/09/frank-a-russo/ Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/09/frank-a-russo/ Frank A. Russo. Came across the web page of Frank A. Russo, and found a very interesting paper on Hearing Aids and Music discussing the auditory design of. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/09/wireless-networking-in-the-developing-world/ Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/09/wireless-networking-in-the-developing-world/ Wireless Networking in the Developing World. From the web site of the Wireless Networking in the Developing World project: The massive popularity of wireless. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/04/online-or-invisible-steve-lawrence-nec-research-institute/ Thu, 04 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/04/online-or-invisible-steve-lawrence-nec-research-institute/ Online or Invisible? [Steve Lawrence; NEC Research Institute]. Steve Lawrence discusses the importance of online research papers in the paper Online or. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/03/novint-falcon/ Wed, 03 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/03/novint-falcon/ Novint Falcon. We are currently working with the Phantom Omni haptic devices at McGill, but unfortunately they are rather expensive. I have been looking. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/02/google-calendar/ Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/02/google-calendar/ Google Calendar. It took me a couple of weeks to discover that much-rumoured Google Calendar has finally been released. I have tested it, and it looks and. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/01/math-help-trigonometry-trigonometric-functions-of-common-angles-technicaltutoring/ Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/01/math-help-trigonometry-trigonometric-functions-of-common-angles-technicaltutoring/ Trigonometry. I had to brush up on my trigonometry to solve some mapping issues, and found this nice overview. Strange how much I have forgotten about these. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/30/web-20/ Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/30/web-20/ Web 2.0. In a blog note questioning Web 2.0 Tim O'Reilly writes that Web 2.0 is the era when people have come to realize that it's not the software that. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/28/live-images-on-bjorks-medulla-web-page/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/28/live-images-on-bjorks-medulla-web-page/ Live images on björk's MEDÚLLA web page. There are some simple gif animations that start playing when you hover over some of the images on björk's MEDÚLLA web. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/28/removing-attachments-in-apple-mail/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/28/removing-attachments-in-apple-mail/ Removing attachments in Apple Mail. I am reading e-mail using IMAP, and don't want to store large attachments on the server. Depending on the computer and. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/27/sidney-fels-homepage/ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/27/sidney-fels-homepage/ Sidney Fels lecture. Just went to a lecture by Sidney Fels from the Human Communication Technologies lab and MAGIC]{mceeditor0parent} at the University of. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/26/new-tiger-features-for-midi-musicians/ Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/26/new-tiger-features-for-midi-musicians/ MIDI network on OS X. In a discussion on using OSC to communicate over networks, Darryl just mentioned that OS X (apparently starting from Tiger) has the. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/25/osc-midi-address-space/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/25/osc-midi-address-space/ OSC - MIDI address space. My post over at the Open Sound Control forum: I guess we are all trying to get rid of MIDI, but as long as we have tons of gear. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/25/wired-1109-powerpoint-is-evil/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/25/wired-1109-powerpoint-is-evil/ Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil. Edward Tufte has an interesting Wired article entitled PowerPoint Is Evil. The main point is that PowerPoint forces people to. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/25/word-attachments/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/25/word-attachments/ Word Attachments. I have received a number of Word attachments recently. Nowadays, I only touch MS Word when I am forced to by other people, as I rely on. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/24/turntable-controlled-vibrating-chaise-longue/ Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/24/turntable-controlled-vibrating-chaise-longue/ Turntable-Controlled Vibrating Chaise Longue. {.imagelink}Daito Manabe has developed a Turntable-Controlled Vibrating Chaise Longue where it is possible to. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/23/art-of-cobra/ Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/23/art-of-cobra/ Art of Cobra. I went to see the McGill improv ensemble perform Art of Cobra by John Zorn. Usually, I find it more interesting to play free improvisation than. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/23/wfs-in-electronic-music/ Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/23/wfs-in-electronic-music/ WFS in electronic music. Today I went to a guest lecture by Marije Baalman on WaveFieldSynthesis (a spatial sound reproduction principle based on the Huygens. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/23/yves-guiard-and-bimanual-action/ Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/23/yves-guiard-and-bimanual-action/ Yves Guiard and bimanual action. Yves Guiard should have held a lecture at McGill last week, but unfortunately could not make it. Reading on his web page and. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/21/librivox/ Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/21/librivox/ LibriVox. LibriVox is a voluntary project set up to record all books in the public domain and make them available, for free, in audio format on the internet. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/20/ball-state-university-interactive-wireless-sculpture/ Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/20/ball-state-university-interactive-wireless-sculpture/ Ball State University Interactive Wireless Sculpture. Ball State University Interactive Wireless Sculpture is an outdoor interactive digital installation. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/20/music-and-audio-users-on-course-in-intel-mac-transition/ Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/20/music-and-audio-users-on-course-in-intel-mac-transition/ Music and Audio Users On Course in Intel Mac Transition. Interesting comment from Create Digital Music: What I find especially interesting is how far ahead of. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/19/monome/ Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/19/monome/ monome. {.imagelink}The monome 40h is a reconfigurable grid of sixty-four backlit buttons, connecting with USB and communicating both MIDI and OSC (Create. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/19/sounds-like-bach/ Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/19/sounds-like-bach/ Sounds Like Bach. Douglas Hofstadter is discussing music and artificial intelligence: Back when I was young when I wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach" I asked myself. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/05/meet-theater-max/ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/05/meet-theater-max/ Theater Max. There seems to be a lot of initiatives for making "higher-level" abstractions for working in Max/MSP these days. Now, I just came across a project. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/02/spear-homepage/ Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/02/spear-homepage/ SPEAR. {.imagelink}SPEAR is an application for audio analysis, editing and synthesis. The analysis procedure (which is based on the traditional Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/02/teatrix/ Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/02/teatrix/ Teatrix. Last week I participated in the Teatrix workshop organized by BEK at USF Verftet in Bergen. The idea was to explore technology in a stage setting. The. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/02/vldcmcar/ Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/02/vldcmcar/ VLDCMCaR. Bob L. Sturm at UC Santa Barbara: {.imagelink}VLDCMCaR (pronounced vldcmcar) is a MATLAB application for exploring concatenative audio synthesis. https://www.arj.no/2006/03/30/apple-sound-and-hearing/ Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/03/30/apple-sound-and-hearing/ Apple - Sound and Hearing. John Lazarro writes on the Auditory list: Apple released a software update today for iPods, that lets users set a maximum dB level. https://www.arj.no/2006/03/29/daniel-rozin-wooden-mirrors/ Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/03/29/daniel-rozin-wooden-mirrors/ Daniel Rozin Wooden Mirrors. Daniel Rozin has made some Wooden Mirrorsfrom various materials. Any person standing in front of one of these pieces is instantly. https://www.arj.no/2006/03/28/plork-princeton-laptop-orchestra/ Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/03/28/plork-princeton-laptop-orchestra/ PLOrk: Princeton Laptop Orchestra. Dan Trueman and Perry Cook at Princeton have set up an undergrad course called PLOrk: Princeton Laptop Orchestra, where they. https://www.arj.no/2006/03/28/the-5-rhythms/ Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/03/28/the-5-rhythms/ The 5 Rhythms. I recently got to know about the concept of 5 rhythms, and the Norwegian group doing this. Gabrielle Roth's The 5 Rhythmsare an exhilarating and. https://www.arj.no/2006/03/28/the-silent-speaker/ Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/03/28/the-silent-speaker/ The Silent Speaker. Forbes.com writes about Charles Jorgensen who is working on what he calls subvocal speech recognition. He attaches a set of electrodes to. https://www.arj.no/2006/03/27/m%C3%B8b/ Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/03/27/m%C3%B8b/ MøB. {.imagelink}I'm participating in a workshop in Bergen, and got to meet Gisle Frøysland who is developing MøB, a software for installations and realtime. https://www.arj.no/2006/03/24/fogscreen/ Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/03/24/fogscreen/ Fogscreen. The Fogscreen is a new invention which makes objects seem to appear and move in thin air! It is a screen you can walk through! The FogScreen is. https://www.arj.no/2006/03/24/nime-06-ircam-paris/ Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/03/24/nime-06-ircam-paris/ NIME 06 - IRCAM - Paris. I also recently got to know that two papers I have been co-authoring have been accepted to NIME in Paris. One is called "Towards a. https://www.arj.no/2006/03/17/scrambledhackz/ Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/03/17/scrambledhackz/ sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!. sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! is a Realtime-Mind-Music-Video-Re-De-Construction-Machine. It is a conceptual software which makes it possible to work with. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/24/membrane-switches-and-linear-position-sensors/ Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/24/membrane-switches-and-linear-position-sensors/ Membrane Switches and Linear Position Sensors. Mark just pointed me to the web page of Spectra Symbol, a company making membrane switches and linear position. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/23/preview-of-jamoma-03/ Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/23/preview-of-jamoma-03/ Preview of Jamoma 0.3. {p102 .imagelink}I have joined in as a developer of Jamoma, and am currently porting parts of the Musical Gestures Toolbox using this. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/22/ubc-maxmspjitter-toolbox/ Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/22/ubc-maxmspjitter-toolbox/ UBC Max/MSP/Jitter Toolbox. Just came across the UBC Max/MSP/Jitter Toolbox which seems to be quite similar to Jamoma. The UBC Max/MSP/Jitter Toolbox is a. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/22/underground-city-montreal/ Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/22/underground-city-montreal/ Underground city, Montreal. {p101 .imagelink}Some facts about the underground city of Montreal, which I pass through every day: Montreal (Underground city or. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/21/olympic-figure-skating/ Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/21/olympic-figure-skating/ Olympic Figure Skating. {.imagelink}Watching the ladies' figure skating competition from the olympics, I am amazed by the total lack of connection between. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/20/dbv/ Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/20/dbv/ dbv. {p95 .imagelink}dbv is a customizable vj tool built with Max/MSP/Jitter. Simple, but with some nice implementation details. I particularly like the way it. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/20/traerphysics/ Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/20/traerphysics/ traer.physics. {p94 .imagelink}traer.physics is a particle system physics engine for the Processing video programming environment. The user community of. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/17/nord-modular/ Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/17/nord-modular/ Nord Modular. {.imagelink}Clavia has recently released a new version of their software for Nord Modular which now includes the possibility to create new. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/13/instant-replay-may-help-to-mould-memories/ Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/13/instant-replay-may-help-to-mould-memories/ Instant replay may help to mould memories. Nature News writes about a recent discovery of how rats running through a maze tend to have a backwards replay of. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/13/online-word-processing/ Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/13/online-word-processing/ Online word processing. Have been testing the online word processing tool Writely, and it works quite well. It also allows for several people to work on the. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/10/metadata-hootenanny/ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/10/metadata-hootenanny/ Metadata Hootenanny. Metadata Hootenanny is a tool for easy adding metadata (annotations and chapters) to QuickTime files. It also has a nice timeline. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/10/synchronizing-files-rsync-and-unison/ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/10/synchronizing-files-rsync-and-unison/ Synchronizing files: Rsync and Unison. I have been thinking about setting up an automatic backup routine on my laptop for a long time, and finally decided to. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/06/quicksilver/ Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/06/quicksilver/ Quicksilver. {p75 .imagelink}Quicksilver is a program, quite similar to Butler and LaunchBar, for launching applications and finding files quickly under OS X. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/05/video-annotation-software/ Sun, 05 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/05/video-annotation-software/ Video Annotation Software. A short overview of various video annotation software: \- Anvil by Michael Kipp is a java-based program for storing several layers. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/04/access-hidden-files-ipod/ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/04/access-hidden-files-ipod/ Access Hidden Files on iPod. I found a way of getting access to the music files on my windows-formatted iPod on a mac over at Ecoustics: Launch the Learn more. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/02/hci-at-stanford-university-dtools/ Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/02/hci-at-stanford-university-dtools/ HCI at Stanford University: d.tools. d.tools is a hardware and software system that enables designers to rapidly prototype the bits (the form) and the atoms. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/02/translation/ Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/02/translation/ Language and Computers. I have been using BabelFish for online translation, but I just found out about Google Translate. My small comparisons show up very. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/02/smart-os-x-dictionary-function/ Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/02/smart-os-x-dictionary-function/ Smart OS X Dictionary function. Read on macosxhints: When running a Cocoa application, you can control-click on any word and select "Look up in Dictionary". https://www.arj.no/2006/01/26/stanford-on-itunes/ Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/01/26/stanford-on-itunes/ Stanford on iTunes. Stanford on iTunes provides access to a wide range of Stanford-related digital audio content via the iTunes Music Store, Apple’s popular. https://www.arj.no/2006/01/24/integrated-sensing-display/ Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/01/24/integrated-sensing-display/ Integrated sensing display. Apple has patented a new Integrated sensing display: On Jan. 12, the US Patent & Trademark Office revealed Apple’s new patent. https://www.arj.no/2006/01/23/into-great-silence/ Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/01/23/into-great-silence/ Into Great Silence. Film director Philip Groening has made Into Great Silence, a film about a Carthusian convent where the monks are living in complete. https://www.arj.no/2006/01/23/quartz-composer/ Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/01/23/quartz-composer/ Quartz Composer. I just got to know about Apple's Quartz Composer, which has been hiding secretly on my computer for a long time (it is installed with the. https://www.arj.no/2006/01/15/converting-mpeg-2-mod-files/ Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/01/15/converting-mpeg-2-mod-files/ Converting MPEG-2 .MOD files. I have been struggling with figuring out the easiest way of converting MPEG-2 .MOD files coming out of a JVC Everio HD camera to. https://www.arj.no/2006/01/15/retrievr-search-by-sketch/ Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/01/15/retrievr-search-by-sketch/ retrievr - search by sketch. "retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch. https://www.arj.no/2006/01/14/digital-thoughts-by-paul-lansky/ Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/01/14/digital-thoughts-by-paul-lansky/ Digital thoughts by Paul Lansky. I came across the piece Notjustmoreidlechatter by composer Paul Lansky, showcasing a fascinating use of voice for creating. https://www.arj.no/2006/01/14/george-lakoff-home/ Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/01/14/george-lakoff-home/ Philosophy in the Flesh. Philosophy in the Flesh by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson starts with these nice sentences: The mind is inherently embodied. Thought. https://www.arj.no/2006/01/10/hypermusic/ Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/01/10/hypermusic/ Hypermusic. A few days ago I wrote about Nelson's ideas on hypermedia, and I was anxious to see how these ideas have been absorbed in the musical world, and. https://www.arj.no/2006/01/09/nonlinearity-hypertext-hypermedia/ Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/01/09/nonlinearity-hypertext-hypermedia/ Nonlinearity, Hypertext, Hypermedia. The ideas of nonlinear thinking and writing has developed quickly with the growth of the Internet, but dates back much. https://www.arj.no/2005/12/30/flat-earth-on-wikipedia/ Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/12/30/flat-earth-on-wikipedia/ Flat Earth on Wikipedia. In a rather bizarre Wikipedia discussion about the flatness of Earth, I found an interesting statement: \- At the scale of less than. https://www.arj.no/2005/12/30/quintetnet/ Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/12/30/quintetnet/ Quintet.net. Georg Hajdu has just released a new version of his Quintet.net performance system. "Quintet.net is an interactive network performance environment. https://www.arj.no/2005/12/29/open-sound-control-forum/ Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/12/29/open-sound-control-forum/ Open Sound Control forum. The CNMAT people have made a forum at the Open Sound Control site. OSC is a way of communicating musical information between devices. https://www.arj.no/2005/12/28/mirror-neurons/ Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/12/28/mirror-neurons/ Mirror Neurons. The concept of mirror neurons was discovered at the University of Parma, Italy some years back, and shows how we have the same neural activitiy. https://www.arj.no/2005/12/27/academic-english/ Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/12/27/academic-english/ Academic English. Thomas Hylland Eriksen has some interesting thoughts on academic English: "With the total dominance of Microsoft Word, the result is. https://www.arj.no/2005/12/19/10-tips-on-writing-the-living-web/ Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/12/19/10-tips-on-writing-the-living-web/ 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web. 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web is a good list of reminders for writing web pages: Write for a reason Write often Write. https://www.arj.no/2005/12/19/project-xanadu/ Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/12/19/project-xanadu/ Project Xanadu. Looking for some references to nonlinear writing and hypertext, I ended up on the web page of Project Xanadu started by Ted Nelson in 1960. I. https://www.arj.no/2005/12/14/mp4-to-wmv-convert-mpeg-4-to-windows-media-video/ Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/12/14/mp4-to-wmv-convert-mpeg-4-to-windows-media-video/ MP4 to WMV. I have been struggling with creating video files that are easily playable on both OS X and Windows. Of course it is possible to make an avi with. https://www.arj.no/2005/11/29/bio/ Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/11/29/bio/ About. Alexander Refsum Jensenius is a music researcher and research musician. His research focuses on why music makes us move, which he explores through. https://www.arj.no/2005/11/29/jvc-gz-mc500-camcorder-review-jvc-other-media-jvc-camcorders-camcorder-reviews-consumer-camcorders-camcorderinfocom/ Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/11/29/jvc-gz-mc500-camcorder-review-jvc-other-media-jvc-camcorders-camcorder-reviews-consumer-camcorders-camcorderinfocom/ JVC GZ-MC500. I have been thinking about buying a new video camera. As I start to get very tired of working with dv-tapes, I was curious to check out some of. https://www.arj.no/2005/11/29/kurt-ralske-2/ Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/11/29/kurt-ralske-2/ Practising electronics. I think Kurt Ralske puts it very well in "The Pianist: A Note on Digital Technique" "For the classical pianist, the tedium of endless. https://www.arj.no/2005/11/28/chuck-concurrent-on-the-fly-audio-programming-language/ Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/11/28/chuck-concurrent-on-the-fly-audio-programming-language/ ChucK : Concurrent, On-the-fly Audio Programming Language. I finally got around to download and try ChucK : Concurrent, On-the-fly Audio Programming Language. https://www.arj.no/2005/11/28/mit-media-lab-100-laptop/ Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/11/28/mit-media-lab-100-laptop/ MIT Media Lab: $100 Laptop. The MIT Media Lab: \$100 Laptop aims at making an affordable laptop for poor countries: "The proposed \$100 machine will be a. https://www.arj.no/2005/09/28/computer-music-modeling-and-retrieval/ Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/09/28/computer-music-modeling-and-retrieval/ Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. CMMR, Pisa, Italy 26-28 September 2005 This was a rather small conference, with only about 40 participants, organised at. https://www.arj.no/2005/09/12/international-computer-music-conference/ Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/09/12/international-computer-music-conference/ International Computer Music Conference. Some notes from ICMC, Barcelona, Spain 4-10 September 2005. Sunday 4 September I attended a workshop on audio. https://www.arj.no/2005/07/29/alexander-refsum-jensenius--conferences/ Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/07/29/alexander-refsum-jensenius--conferences/ S2S2 Summer School. 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Here I discuss neural networks as one specific type of computer model that learns to process information in a way that. https://www.arj.no/2002/11/20/sound-timbre/ Wed, 20 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2002/11/20/sound-timbre/ Analysis, visualization and synthesis of sound in Max/MSP — focusing on timbre, spectral centroid, harmonics, and perceptual models (Sony Rollins saxophone example). https://www.arj.no/2002/10/17/tone-synthesis/ Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2002/10/17/tone-synthesis/ Synthesis of a Tone. The sound we hear is built up of sound waves that can be described physically in terms of frequencies. A single frequency tone is called a. https://www.arj.no/2002/10/16/max-msp-introduction/ Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2002/10/16/max-msp-introduction/ Introduction to Max/MSP. The intention of MAX was to create a graphical programming environment for musicians and composers (Puckette 1985). 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A discussion of different sound formats and. https://www.arj.no/about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/about/ Alexander Refsum Jensenius is Professor of Music Technology at the University of Oslo, director of RITMO and MishMash, researching music, movement, and. https://www.arj.no/chat/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/chat/ Chat. Local Browser Chatbot Runs locally with WebLLM. Your prompts stay in the browser. Model Llama 3.2 1B (fast) Llama 3.2 3B (balanced) Phi 3.5 Mini. https://www.arj.no/contact/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/contact/ Contact Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Professor of Music Technology at the University of Oslo. Find email, office details, and links to research profiles.