Week 2 wrap-up
In this week’s wrap-up video, we have a special announcement: a team of researchers from the University of Oslo has won the Danish Radio’s “Happening of the Year” for the …
Course: Music Moves: Why Does Music Make You Move?
Course outline
Music Moves will give you a broad introduction to the field of music and movement, and the chance to learn from experts in the field. You will learn about the …
A Brief History of Music in the 20th Century
Music scenes developed quickly in the 20th century, and many large changes came about. The most radical change was probably that music now could be experienced without any performers present. …
The history of listening experience – Part 2
In this video, Hans Zeiner-Henriksen continues the historical overview of music and movement, starting at the jazz age and moving through the swing, rock, and disco periods before getting to …
NIME – New Interfaces for Musical Expression
In this video you will see several examples of new interfaces for musical expression (NIME). Watch the video and move on to the next step for a discussion on NIME. …
Measuring the skin conductance of musical experience
In this video we explore a biosensor for measuring skin conductance. This sensor measures the galvanic skin response of the hand, which has been shown to correlate to emotional state. …
An introduction to biosensors
In this article, we will explore how it is possible to measure biosignals, that is activity within the body itself. What are biosignals? Sensors measuring biosignals are often also called …
Extracting emotion data from motion data
As we have seen in the previous videos, there are strong links between motion and emotion in music. But if motion and emotion are so closely connected, is it possible …
Music, emotion, motion and friends
When talking about emotional music, we often describe it as ‘moving’. Body motion is one of several links between emotion and music. In this article we will look at three …
Motion and emotion
In this video you will visit Professor Hallgjerd Aksnes in her office at the University of Oslo. She has recently completed a large scale project entitled “Music, Motion and Emotion: …
How Do Bodily Metaphors Shape Our Experience of Music?
We will look on the details of how bodily metaphors shape our experience of music. As we discussed in Studying music perception in the motion capture laboratory, most people have …
Music and bodily metaphors
Why do we say that music “ascends” with “high” notes – or “descends” with “low” notes? Does musical notation have directions? In this video we will discuss how our bodily …
What we will cover in Week 6
In this final week you will in the theory track learn about bodily metaphors in our experience with music. You will also learn how these affect our experience of emotional …
Visualising video
Here in Music Moves we present a number of different types of motion capture technologies. Many of these are excellent and work well for their purposes. Still, however, video recording …
Introduction to video analysis
This week’s methods track will focus on movement analysis using regular video cameras. Some of the advanced motion capture technologies we have looked at in previous weeks are certainly the …