Answers to step 2.7
In the previous task you were asked to describe how you perceived three sound examples. In this step we use a sound visualisation technique called spectrograms to look more closely …
Course: Music Moves: Why Does Music Make You Move?
Quantitative Sound Analysis and the Visual Representations of Sound
This article introduces some basic techniques for quantitative sound analysis. Most importantly, we will have a look at three visual representations of sound: the waveform, spectrum and spectrogram. We will …
How do we analyse sound?
As for movement analysis, there are both qualitative and quantitative approaches to the analysis of musical sound. In everyday life, we use words to describe sounds. A sound may be …
Meet the educators
The educators, Alexander, Hans and Kristian are all associate professors at the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo, Norway. For this run of Music Moves they are also …
Motion Capture Systems
The term motion capture encompasses a range of systems for recording body motion quantitatively. They can be divided into two broad categories. In this article, we’ll get an overview of …