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Research fellow Kristian Nymoen will defend his dissertation on Friday 25 January 2013.

Methods and Technologies for Analysing Links Between Musical Sound and Body Motion

Sverm-prosjektet avsluttes (i denne omgang) med en serie forestillinger i fourMs-lab'en. Her vil fokuset ligge på de fire elementene vi har jobbet med det siste året: stillstand, stillhet, mikrobevegelser og mikrolyd.

I forbindelse med Musikkteknologidagene 2012 inviterer vi til arbeidsvisning av resultater fra det kunstneriske forskningsprosjektet Sverm.

Hva skjer når sjakkspillere lager og bokstavelig talt ”spiller” musikk? Hvordan lyder sjakk matt? Flere fourMs-studenter er involvert i stykket Reunion 2012.

The International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) is the first and largest conference covering the rapidly growing area of field-programmable logic. The 22nd FPL continues the tradition of the previous editions and will be hosted by the University of Oslo, Norway, 29-31 August, 2012.

fourMs researchers will be teaching, and fourMs students will be participating in the annual International Summer School in Systematic Musicology, this year to be held in Hamburg. More information.

Cand.philol. Risto Holopainen will defend his dissertation "Self-organised Sound with Autonomous Instruments: Aesthetics and experiments" for the title philosophiae doctor (ph.d.) of the University of Oslo. 

As part of his Ph.D. defense , Cand.philol. Risto Holopainen will present the trial lecture: "Algorithmic composition of (non-autonomous) instrumental music".

In connection with the Ph.D. disputation of Risto Holopainen, the two external committee members – Eduardo Reck Miranda and Stefania Serafin – will visit the fourMs labs and hold short guest lectures presenting their current research. This is a great chance to hear two of the leading music technology researchers talk about their current research endeavours.

This week Victoria Johnson and Trond Lossius visit fourMs for a workshop on violin motion capture and sound spatialisation. We will test the commercially available K-bow with IRCAM's Gesture follower, Mubu, and the recently released Machine Learning toolkit for Max, and will also test the Jamoma sound spatialisation modules on the 36.2 speaker rig. 

Vi inviterer til seminar om det pågående vitenskapelige/kunstneriske prosjektet Sverm. Prosjektet tar utgangspunkt i det som skjer når vi nærmer oss fraværet av bevegelse og lyd: stillstand og stillhet. I dette grenselandet finner vi det vi kaller mikrobevegelser og mikrolyd, de minste bevegelsene og lydene vi klarer å produsere og oppfatte. 

Researchers from fourMs will hold a motion capture workshop during this year's Art.on.Wires. This is a chance to work with a full-body inertial motion capture system (Xsens MVN). More information at art-on-wires.org .

Kan du stå stille i 6 minutter? Da er det bare å komme!  I forbindelse med Åpen dag 2012 inviterer nemlig Institutt for musikkvitenskap til historiens første Norgesmesterskap i stillstand.

University of Oslo is a partner, and fourMs researchers will be teaching, at the International Summer School in Systematic Musicology (ISSSM2011), which will take place in Jyväskylä, starting on the 8th of August, 2011.

More information below (and here). 

11th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 30 May–1 June 2011, Oslo, Norway www.nime2011.org

The fourMs lab is heavily involved in the organization of the 11th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression . NIME 2011 will be organized 30 May - 1 June 2011 here in Oslo, and with lots of interesting activities happening in the days before the conference.

Now the official call for participation has just been posted. Please consider submitting a paper, performance, installation or workshop proposal.

fourMs-gruppen inviterer til seminar med informasjon om pågående aktiviteter og oppstart av Nasjonalt nettverk for tverrfaglige bevegelsesstudier.

Every known culture has some form of dance, so it seems obvious that music and movement are closely connected with each other. But it's surprising how little we know about this connection. Why do certain tunes make us want to get up and dance, while others not so much? And when we do move, what compels us to do so one way and not another? What's more, when we watch others dance, why can we tell immediately if their gestures fit the music or not?

Bogdan Kwolek is associate professor in the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Rzeszów University of Technology in Poland. His research focuses on different types of computer vision techniques for human motion analysis.

fourMs-researchers wil perform at Future Media Days 2010:

iPhone ensemble playing Bloom and Scrambler (for iPhone and small speakers). Featuring Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Kristian Nymoen, Anders Tveit, Arve Voldsund and Viet Phi Uy Hoang.

fourMs-researchers wil perform at the VERDIKT conference:

iPhone ensemble playing Bloom and Scrambler (for iPhone and small speakers). Featuring Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Kristian Nymoen, Anders Tveit, Arve Voldsund and Viet Phi Uy Hoang.

Dance Jockey by Yago de Quay and Ståle Skogstad (using Xsens inertial motion capture)

Following up on the successful Interactive Music night at Gabler a couple of weeks ago, visiting researcher Yago de Quay will have a new night showcasing his latest Interactive Systems for dance clubs at the venue Gabler. As last time there will be four systems at work that night, namely the wii-make-music, video jockey, DJ, and motion to music. Together with research fellow Ståle A. Skogstad he will also present a new version of an interactive performance piece using the Xsens MVN motion capture suit. See trailer below.

Visiting researcher Yago de Quay will showcase his latest Interactive Systems for dance clubs at the venue Gabler . There will be four systems at work that night, namely the wii-make-music , video jockey , DJ , and motion to music . More information below.

Artistic research fellow at the Norwegian Academy of Music Victoria Johnson and fourMs-researcher Alexander Refsum Jensenius will perform a piece exploring improvisation in time and space during a concert that also features pieces by Henrik Hellstenius and Peter Tornquist.

Johnson and Jensenius have been collaborating for several years on exploration of various types of technologies for musical expression. The piece currently presented is based on video analysis using modules from the Musical Gestures Toolbox in Jamoma and CataRT .