2010

Postdoctoral researcher Kyrre Glette participated in (and won!) the 64kB intro competition at the Assembly computer festival in Helsinki. A 64kB intro is an executable program in 64kB which includes realtime generation of graphics and music.

The animation includes a dancing robot, where the motion is based on data recorded with our new Qualisys infrared motion capture system.

Graphics programming done by Kim Kalland, Thomas Kristensen and Kyrre Glette. Sound programming and music by Gergely Szelei-Kis.

IRCAM is proposing a workshop on GDIF & SpatDIF 20-21 May. The invitation e-mail sent to the GDIF mailing list is attached below. Interested people should contact Baptiste Caramiaux directly to show their interest.

Two of the student projects in the course INF3460 have been carried out in the fourMs lab this semester, and now the reports are ready: 

- Lydd?r (sound door) by Maja Celine Sevaldson - Squeeze2play by Kristian Stor?s og Kristoffer Emil M?rch Amundsen

Fulbright Scholar Mariusz Kozak from the University of Chicago will be a visiting researcher at fourMs during the academic year 2010-2011.

There are now podcast streams available (Norwegian only) from the MIC seminar on our two new book releases.

Cynthia M. Grund, Network Coordinator for NNIMIPA, has posted a page with pictures and videos of the motion capture session done with American pianist William Westney during his visit to Oslo in February. There are also links to a video recording of a small discussion between Cynthia Grundt, William Westney and Alexander Refsum Jensenius on some of the topics discussed during the NNIMIPA workshop in Oslo.

We have uploaded a few pictures from the Open Lab last week, and research fellow Kristian Nymoen has made a few short videos presenting the use of the Qualisys motion capture system.

Videos from the Semester opening concert are now available on YouTube: iPhone trio and Dance jockey. See below for more information.

The ROBIN group and fourMs are involved in a new four-year EU funded FP7 project called Engineering Proprioception in Computing Systems (EPiCS). The EPiCS consortium spans Europe and includes a range of leading universities, research labs and industrial partners. This week we have had a workshop in Oslo outlining some of the main objectives of the project (see more below). 

Alexander Refsum Jensenius is interviewed about the air guitar phenomenon in the program "Mozart & Madonna" at NRK P2, Wednesday 7 June 09:03-10:00.

Our new motion capture system is presented in the Qualisys newsletter from May. We have been working with Qualisys to create an integrated solution for handling recording and streaming of music-related body movement data, and look forward to working with the new system in the coming years!

This week's edition of the University of Oslo newspaper Uniforum features a story called "Forskar mellom kunst og vitskap" ("Research between art and science"), highlighting the importance of interdisciplinarity in research.

The interview was made in connection with a performance of the piece Transformation at Norwegian Academy of Music a couple of weeks ago. 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.

This week's version of the student newspaper Universitas has an article about music and movement, featuring visiting researcher Yago de Quay .

fourMs-researchers were heavily present at the annual VERDIKT conference yesterday. In addition to a lecture and poster presentations, we also contributed a performance with the iPhone ensemble and a motion capture performance. More info below.