Visiting the Mocap lab
Alexander Refsum Jensenius and Kristian Nymoen demonstrate an infrared marker-based motion capture system. This lab at the University of Oslo contains an advanced system from Qualisys with 13 cameras hanging …
Course: Music Moves: Why Does Music Make You Move?
Quantitative movement analysis
In this video you will learn about different types of motion capture systems.
Infrared marker-based motion capture
Infrared marker-based motion capture is one subcategory of optical motion capture systems. As discussed in the previous video these systems may be very precise, with high resolution and high recording …
Introduction to quantitative movement analysis
In this week’s methods track you will learn about quantitative movement analysis. This typically includes the use of one or more motion capture (mocap) systems: cameras and sensor-based. We will …
Motion, action and gesture
In this video you will learn about more terminology for describing music-related movement.
Introduction to motion, action and gesture
This week’s terminology track focuses on actions that do not produce sound directly. One example are sound-modifying actions, for example the feet of a pianist as she pushes the pedals …
Studying music perception in the motion capture laboratory
Alexander and Kristian discuss some of their experiences from experiments on music and movement. Are there similarities in the way different people move to music?
Can body movement teach us about music perception?
The theory of embodied cognition tells us that our involvement with the world is based on the fact that we are humans with physical, moving bodies. The same holds true …
Introduction to multimodality
Multimodality is a term used to emphasise that our senses work together. A modality refers to one of the channels we use to get information, such as audition, vision, taste, …
What we will cover in Week 3
This week you will learn more about the importance of multimodality in human perception in the theory track. The terminology track will focus on the motion of performers that do …
Qualitative movement analysis
In this video you will learn about different types of qualitative movement analysis. We will in particular look more into two systems developed by dance-choreographer Rudolph Laban: Labanotation and Laban …
Introduction to sound and movement analysis
In this week’s methods track we will explore qualitative movement analysis and learn about sound analysis. As we saw last week, there are many ways of analysing music-related body motion. …
Exploring Sound-Producing Actions
We shall here look at some terminology used to describe sound-producing actions. Objects and Actions Sounds are produced when actions work on two or more objects, which is often called …
Sound-producing actions
What are sound-producing actions? In this video we look at the difference between motion and action. We learn about different types of sound-producing actions: impulsive, sustained and iterative.
Action and co-articulation
In this week’s terminology track we will explore the concept of action. From the theory track you have learned that an embodied approach to cognition is based on the idea …