Perception as an active process
Music perception is more than just listening. Our own experiences as humans with bodies shape the way we perceive different phenomena. For instance, we know how to produce a clapping …
Course: Music Moves: Why Does Music Make You Move?
Understanding perception in music
In order to understand our musical experiences, it is essential to look into two psychological concepts: perception and cognition. It is not easy to give precise definitions of the two …
What we will cover in Week 2
This week we will look at some of the basic psychological principles related to music and movement. You will also learn about some of the terminology we use and we …
Methods for studying music-related body movement
What types of methods do researchers use for studying music-related body motion? In this first methodology “track”, Alexander Refsum Jensenius presents the differences between descriptive and functional analysis, and qualitative …
How can we study music-related body movement?
The third “track” of Music Moves is that of methodology. In this track we will explore different methods that researchers use to study music-related movement. It is important to remember …
Music-related body movement
In this video Alexander Refsum Jensenius goes through some of the key terminology in Music Moves. Being precise about terminology is important to avoid confusion. That is why we are …
Why is terminology important?
The structure of Music Moves is based on three “tracks”. We have just been through the first part of the theory track, and will here start the terminology track. One …
Musical Experience: History of Listening in the 20th Century
The connection between music and body movement seems immediately obvious already in light of how musical sound is made. Body movements produce sounds on instruments, and very few musicians are …
The history of listening experience – Part 1
Contemporary classical music listening is mostly sedentary and silent, with no spontaneous outburst or cheering from the audience. Has it always been like this? In this video Hans T. Zeiner-Henriksen …
A historical perspective
There are numerous musical genres, and each of them has its own particular “style”: the sound, the looks of the performers, the behaviour of the audiences, and so on. What …
New interfaces for musical expression: NIME
What does the term, NIME, mean? The term NIME refers to “new interfaces for musical expression”. The term is derived from the conference and community with the same name (NIME). …
Controlling sound from motion
So far we have mainly looked at how we can use technologies for analysing music-related motion. This video focuses on how knowledge from such scientific research can be used for …
Video analysis
It is possible to do quite advanced video analysis using just regular web cameras. The tools you see in this video are generated using the Musical Gestures Toolbox. This toolbox …
Coarticulation in Music
In this article we look a little more at the concept of coarticulation, meaning the fusion of small-scale actions and sounds into larger units. What is Coarticulation? The term coarticulation …
Pulse and music culture
Although our ability to entrain to an external rhythm might be innate, the perception of an underlying reference structure in music—for example, the underlying pulse—is also highly dependent on the …