Activities

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). 

Researchers from fourMs are actively involved in the organisation of the 11th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2011) in Oslo30 May–1 June 2011, Oslo, Norway. See nime2011.org for details.

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

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.

By moving inside a seemingly empty space, the violinist slowly explores a sonic landscape of thousands of short fragments of various violin sounds. The space thus becomes a musical entity in itself, a space that the violinist both controls and interacts with at the same time. What seemed to be an empty space at first, is left as a sonic space in our memory when the piece ends.

fourMs-researchers wil participate in the Department of Musicology's semester opening concert.

Kristian Nymoen, Anders Tveit, Alexander Refsum Jensenius: Bloom and Scrambler (for iPhone and small speakers)

Yago de Quay, Ståle Skogstad: Posture (with Xsens motion capture)

Come and visit us during the semester opening week for the autumn semester. There will be demonstrations of different motion capture systems, sonic interaction, robots, 3D-printing, and more.

Working meeting in the nordic network Systematic Understanding of Music (SUM), focusing on discussing the further development of the SUM sensor device.

The International Summer School in Systematic Musicology (ISSSM2010) will take place in Jyväskylä, starting on the 11th of August, 2010. The theme of the Summer School is Beauty in Music - Musical Aesthetics Revisited and it focuses on the most advanced and up-to-date topics of musicology through an interactive and cooperative learning approach.

IRCAM is hosting a two-day workshop on future development of GDIF and SpatDIF.

The Music, Motion, and Emotion-project will host a seminar with four open lectures at Department of Musicology:  Program Monday 10 May

Kl. 10.15-11.30, Auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrups Hus: Filosof Mark Johnson, University of Oregon Kl. 11.45-13.00, Auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrups Hus: Kognitiv psykolog Raymond Gibbs, University of California, Santa Cruz: "Embodiment in metaphorical imagination" Kl. 14.15-15.15, Salen, ZEB-bygget: Musikkviter Lawrence Zbikowski, University of Chicago Kl. 15.30-16.30, Salen, ZEB-bygget: Musikkviter Steve Larson, University of Oregon

 

Art.on.Wires is a symposium/workshop/laboratory focusing on new media technology for interactive and mixed-reality environments organized by Simula in collaboration with fourMs, Re-New and others. 

Title: Musical Forces and Musical Analysis

Professor Steve Larson, University of Oregon

FourMs researchers will be involved in the Master's course: Music, Meaning and Gesture organized by NNIMIPA, the Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics in Odense, Denmark 22-26 March.

On the Development of an Auditory Virtual Environment for Musical Applications

In the last few decades, the development of audio reproduction and spatialization techniques greatly benefits from composers whose pioneering work still inspires researchers to refine spatial audio systems (e.g. Stockhausen, Chowning, Boulez). However, novel spatialization tools developed by engineers and researchers hardly find their way from the developers' labs into the composition studios. To make future developments more applicable, researchers have to understand this current lack of coherence between development and artistic use.

In this talk, first, results of a quantitative study are presented and shows how composers use spatialization, what spatial aspects are essential and what functionalities spatial audio systems should strive to include or improve. Secondly, ViMiC (Virtual Microphone Control), a novel spatial rendering software is presented. ViMiC provides a computer-generated virtual environment for the purpose of creating spatial sounds scenes. Apart from positioning sound sources, other spatial aspects, such as source width, distance, and room impression, can be created in real-time, particularly for concert situations and site-specific immersive installations.