Publications

I am happy to announce the publication of the anthology Sonic Design- Explorations Between Art and Science.This 17-chapter volume explores sonic design practice and theory and celebrates the lifelong achievements of Professor Rolf Inge Godøy. The anthology is based on selected contributions at the International Seminar on Sonic Design, which took place in May 2022. The seminar was set up to celebrate Rolf Inge Godøy, my former supervisor, mentor, colleague and friend, uphon his retirement. After working closely with him for more than two decades, I wanted to bring together different perspectives I know he cares about. When I first approached him as a master’s student, I remember how he spoke about composition as “sonic design”. Thus, it became a natural term for both the seminar and the anthology (I have previously written about the difference between sound design and sonic design). ...

I have previously written about the different publication cultures at RITMO. This includes different coauthorship traditions between our disciplines: musicology, psychology, and informatics. Our approach to avoid conflicts over (co)authorship is to discuss it often. We also have an exercise that we run occasionally at retreats. Since this may be a topic of interest to others, here I share the case we have developed. We typically allocate an hour for the exercise and split people into small groups (4–6 people) from different disciplines. ...

At RITMO, we have several different disciplines working together. The three core disciplines at RITMO are musicology, psychology, and informatics. In addition, we have people working in philosophy, physics, computer science, biology, dance studies, and so on. This also means that we have several different publication cultures. In this blog post, I will reflect on the differences between them. The Paper Proceedings Culture My professorship is in music technology. I don’t know if music technology should be considered a discipline; it might be better described as a community of communities. Music technologists have different types of backgrounds and work in many different institutions. RITMO has music technologists from musicology (the Faculty of Humanities) and informatics (the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences). The latter builds on what I call a paper proceedings publication culture. Informatics, computer science, and various types of engineering are fast-moving fields that often publish in what is called “conference proceedings”. ...

I am happy to announce that my book Sound Actions - Conceptualizing Musical Instruments is now published! I am also thrilled that this is an open access book, meaning that is free to download and read. You are, of course, also welcome to pick up a paper copy! Here is a quick video summary of the book’s content: In the book, I combine perspectives from embodied music cognition and interactive music technology. The approach is what I call “embodied music technology”. ...

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: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression”. From the book cover: What is a musical instrument? What are the musical instruments of the future? This anthology presents thirty papers selected from the fifteen year long history of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). NIME is a leading music technology conference, and an important venue for researchers and artists to present and discuss their explorations of musical instruments and technologies. ...

I have been using Google Scholar as one of my main sources for finding academic papers and books, and find that is has improved considerably over the last few years. A while ago they also opened for creating your own academic profile. It is fairly basic, but they have done a great job in managing to find most of my papers, citations, etc. Now also Microsoft has jumped on academic search, and has launched their own service. When I first visited my personal page, they had only found a handful of my publications. Differently to Google Scholar, though, they allow people to upload their own BibTeX files with publication information. The data from the BibTeX file is not used directly, but somehow merged with everything else. The end result is not so bad, and after my upload the content on my profile has improved considerably. ...

Keeping publication lists up to date is a constant problem. One thing is to just manage to keep track of things myself, another is to publish the list on my personal web page, various project web pages, etc. I have done this manually up until now, but that just does not work any longer. I have to register all my research activities (publications, lectures, interviews, etc.) in the Norwegian report system Cristin. While they manage to extract data from Cristin on my personal UiO page, the code is not (yet?) available to integrate with other web pages. ...

A while back Ola Nordal wrote about journal ranking in his blog, referring to a website called eigenfactors.org. The point is to rank journals based on two factors: Eigenfactor Score (EF): “A measure of the overall value provided by all of the articles published in a given journal in a year”. Article Influence Score (AI): “a measure of a journal’s prestige based on per article citations and comparable to Impact Factor”. Not surprisingly, natural science/medicine journals based in the US are on most of the top 10 lists. Ola found that historical journals are way down on the list. But what about some music journals? As expected the figures are low. Here are some figures based on papers from 2008: ...

{.vrtx-introduction} I am getting ready to travel to Sydney for the upcoming NIME 2010 conference where I am involved in no less than 5 papers: Glass instruments – from pitch to timbre Frounberg, I., A. R. Jensenius, and K. T. Innervik (2010) The paper reports on the development of prototypes of glass instruments. The focus has been on developing acoustic instruments specifically designed for electronic treatment, and where timbral qualities have had priority over pitch. The paper starts with a brief historical overview of glass instruments and their artistic use. Then follows an overview of the glass blowing process. Finally the musical use of the instruments is discussed. ...