Episode 5 - Measuring musical movement (ft. Hugh Alexander von Arnim)

Interview with PhD candidate Hugh Alexander von Arnim on capturing human motion in musical contexts.

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Research Stuff with Hugh von Armin [interview date 2026-06-12]

By Finn Upham, Maham Riaz
Published Oct. 13, 2026

 

Interview with PhD candidate Hugh Alexander von Arnim on capturing human motion in musical contexts. [Interview date 2026-06-12] 

  • [0:50] Background 
  • [4:30] Interactive Systems 
  • [12:05] Thermal Cameras 
  • [27:26] Quantity of Motion 
  • [32:32] Research Philosophy 
  • [34:47] Key Takeaway 
  • [35:50] Reflections 

Links 

  • Hugh Alexander von Arnim, Çağrı Erdem, Ulysse Côté-Allard, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius. 2025. A Sensor is not a Sensor: Diffracting the Preservation of Sonic Microinteraction with the SiFiBand. In Proceedings of the 20th International Audio Mostly Conference (AM '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 318–325. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3771594.3771626
Published Oct. 13, 2026 4:37 PM - Last modified Nov. 3, 2026 3:49 PM