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 night. The clip can be seen here (in Norwegian). Below is an image of Rolf Inge Godøy being interviewed before the opening.
“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 amount of media interest, with numerous newspaper articles, a handful of TV appearances, and a dozen radio interviews. It is strange how this air guitar thing became the main issue. We did do an air guitar study, but that was only one of several observation studies conducted in the Musical Gestures project that I have worked in....