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 several of them for various applications, including small lavalier microphones for cameras and mobile phones. The nice thing about plug-and-play devices is that they are, well, plug and play. The challenge, however, is when they don’t work. Then it is time to figure out what is going on. This is the story of how I managed to use a Røde SmartLav+ lavalier microphone with a Zoom Q8 recorder. ...

January 7, 2021 · 10 min · 1918 words · ARJ

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 running called Open Science Talk. Now it is out, and I am happy to share: Open Science Talk · #26 Music Research In this episode, we talk about Music Research, and how it is to practice open research within this field. Our guest is Alexander Jensenius, Associate Professor at the Department of Musicology Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion (IMV) at the University of Oslo. He is also behind MusicLAb, an event-based project where data is collected, during a musical performance, and analyzed on the fly. ...

January 9, 2020 · 1 min · 149 words · ARJ

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 about in a previous post, the seminar was based on the publication of our two new books and included introductions to the books, three comments, and an artistic response. {.vrtx-byline} [[ ]{.vrtx-authors-prefix}]{.vrtx-authors}[]{.vrtx-published-date} {#vrtx-result-4 .vrtx-resource .vrtx-default-article} {.vrtx-image} {.vrtx-title} 3a - Jensenius: Presentasjon av “Musikk og bevegelse”{.vrtx-title} {.vrtx-read-more} []{.published-date-prefix} {#vrtx-result-5 .vrtx-resource .vrtx-default-article} {.vrtx-image} {.vrtx-title} 3b - Godøy: Presentasjon av “Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement, and Meaning”{.vrtx-title} ...

February 9, 2010 · 1 min · 147 words · ARJ