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Hello, everyone. Today, I'm standing in the Danish Radio's head quarters here in Copenhagen, Denmark, 

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I'm here with Simon Høffding and it's a special day today because tonight, we are going to 

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receive a prize here in this building. And what is this about Simon? Yes, this is so exciting 

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because this is a prize for the classical "event of the year" that we all did together at RITMO 

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with our collaborators from Europe back in October with the Danish String Quartet. 

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We are the first researchers ever to receive a musical prize. That's extremely 

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exciting, I think. And for this event, what we call a Music Lab,  

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a concept that we have been developing at the University of Oslo over the years. The idea is 

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to see how we can study music in a real-life setting, capturing different things on the 

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musicians and also on the audiences and see how we can share and work with that 

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material openly. And in this particular MusicLab, 

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the MusicLab Copenhagen, what did we do there in this setting? 

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Well, what didn't we do, because it's extremely complex. We were, if you count everyone who joined in and did a good 

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chunk of work with 25 people working on that, at least 12 researchers working on their own hypotheses. 

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So, we are working on hypotheses relating, to synchronization of different bodily signals

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internally to audience members and internally to the musicians but also across audience and musicians

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We're looking at pupillometric responses to stress when performing. We have a huge 

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questionnaire where the audience are reporting when they feel what kinds of existential

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emotions or absorbed into the music, or when they are mind-wandering, and all of that can be 

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connected in a myriad of ways. There's no way we can cover all of it in our own work. So it's 

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openly accessible for anyone out there who want to look at it. And most importantly, we worked with 

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the Danish String Quartet, one of the leading string quartets in the world playing some fantastic music. 

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From Beethoven to folk music. So if you're interested in more about this, look at the links down here

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where you can see the full concert and there are links to the prize ceremony and more material and 

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data and everything else? And a really cool documentary video if you want to get just a 10-minute impression 

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So that's it: Music lab Copenhagen. See you later.