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Hello everyone and welcome to week 5 of Music Moves. Hans, what's up this week? 

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We had the voting for the most groovy track, which is always exciting. Any newcomers on the list?

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It is difficult for newcomers because there are 11 tracks and they have been there for 

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quite many years. Now I have almost one hundred respondents including this year. 

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I have made a count to see which one is in the lead. And who's in the lead? 

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It's actually James Brown. Traditional Funk.

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Not far behind is Buena Vista Social Club, a Cuban son, which is interesting since it's not typical 

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West European pop music. Then there  is a gap down to D'Angelo, 

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a neo-soul very funky track. And Deadmau5, which is dubstep and something quite different.  

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Then you have Fela Kuti, afrobeat; and The Meters, which is also a traditional funk track.

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Then there's a bit of a jump down to the jazz track 


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of Esperanza Spalding; Exaltasamba, a slow, hip-hop track; Digable Planet, an acid jazz thing. 

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MeShell Ndegeocello, a very cool bassist, she's last. 

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But if you are last on the top list, that's still pretty good.

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Buena Vista Social Club is the one that has most places in number one.  

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I counted one, two, three, four, five, and you're number one you get five points. 

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So that's interesting, and it's also intersting that there's always variety. 

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None of these has not got any votes. That means that 

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people really decide differently on what they think is the most groovy... it's probably also dependent 

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on what type of genre it is.

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If this is a genre you are comfortable with and if you like it. It's difficult to talk 

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about groove and what it means. The description is that it makes 

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you want to move, which is very subjective. 

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So if you haven't given your vote yet, you should do it, so that Hans can include it in his count.

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And it will be part of next year's wrap-up. 

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What else? It's the musical gestures? Gesture is always an interesting topic, it's a bit 

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confusion there. One of the challenges is that some people think about gesture as just 

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moving. Our approach to this is to talk about the meaning of the movement as well. 

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The movement is important, but it is the meaning that you are really talking about when 

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you talk about gesture. So there is a subtle difference there. 

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I also see that people are excited about 

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video analysis. That's cool; because we are too. And I could mention that we have some new 

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software that have been developed at the University of Oslo. We had this video analysis package, 

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which is a standalone thing for Mac and Windows where you can put in your video and you 

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will get something out. If you do some coding, we also have the Musical Gestures Toolbox 

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for Matlab, and we are very much working on the Musical Gestures Toolbox for Python these days. 

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So if you're interested in that, you can you can check those out, 

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I'll put the links down there.

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Yeah, so good luck with the last week of the MOOC, week 6. And see you again next week.
