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Alexander Refsum Jensenius is a music researcher and research musician, working as associtate professor of music technology at University of Oslo. His research focuses on why music makes us move, which he explores through empirical studies using different types of motion sensing technologies. He also uses the analytic knowledge and tools in the creation of new music, with both traditional and very untraditional instruments. |
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Anne Danielsen is Professor of Musicology and Director of RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has published widely on rhythm, groove and digital technology in post-war African-American popular music. |
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Bruno Laeng is professor in Cognitive Neuropsychology at the University of Oslo and one of the core members in RITMO. He received his Bachelor from the Universitá La Sapienza, Roma, Italia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He has held positions at the University of Bergen, Tromsø, Guelph (Canada) and Harvard (USA). In 2018, he was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science. He is currently the director of the Eye-tracking Laboratory (PSI, UiO) and the coordinator of the RITMO seminars. He works on musical effort, chilling music, rhythmic attention, and the sense of simultaneity. |
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Jesper Kjær Nielsen
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Ass. Prof. Jesper Kjær Nielsen received the M.Sc. (Cum Laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Aalborg University (AAU) in 2009 and 2012, respectively. From 2012-16, he was with the Dept. of Electronic Systems at AAU, as an industrial Postdoc (2012-15) and a non-tenured Assoc. Prof. (2015-16), working closely with Bang & Olufsen (B&O). He is currently with the Audio Analysis Lab at AAU and part-time working with B&O. He has been a visiting researcher at University of Cambridge, University of Illinois, and TU Delft. His research interests include spectral estimation, microphone array processing, and statistical signal processing methods. |
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Jonna Vuoskoski is Associate Professor in Music Cognition at the University of Oslo, and a member of the core group at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion. Her main areas of interest are music-induced emotion, empathy, and the social and embodied cognition of music. Currently she is working on a project investigating the role of entrainment in the pro-social effects of music. |
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Kayla Burnim started as the Senior Engineer at RITMO in January, managing the MoCap lab. She relocated from the US where she was a gait lab engineer at Children's Hospital Colorado supporting both clinical and research work in movement analysis. She has a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering and began her career as a Research and Development engineer inventing new medical devices. She then completed her Masters in Bioengineering doing her thesis work on the biomechanics of pediatric ACL tears. |
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Kristian Nymoen
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Kristian Nymoen is Associate Professor at the departments of Musicology and Informatics at the University of Oslo, working within the fields motion analysis, music cognition, and music information retrieval. His PhD research concerned the use of motion capture technologies as a tool for studying music related movement and for musical performances. In his post-doctoral work Nymoen focused on artificial intelligence technologies for interactive music, developing tools for gesture recognition and decentralised synchronisation of musical computer agents. |
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Laurel Pardue
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Dr. Laurel S. Pardue is an expert on sensing for musical interaction. She has attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology obtaining degrees in computer science and electronics, music, and a masters from MIT’s Media Lab. Her primary focus has been on using technology to explore new means for musical interaction along with novel interfaces for old means, such as Gamelan Elektrika and an electronic tabla. She recently completed a PhD and is continuing work at QMUL and AAU in Copenhagen looking at violin augmentations in order to use technology to redefine the way we learn and play the violin. She has extensive expertise in sensors, electronics and software prototyping, real-time interaction design, and machine learning. Dr. Pardue is part of the QMUL’s Bela team and also plays and teaches violin professionally. |
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Olivier Lartillot
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Olivier Lartillot is postdoctoral researcher at RITMO. He designed MIRtoolbox, a leading Matlab toolbox for audio and music analysis of music recordings. He also designs the MiningSuite, a toolbox that combines audio and symbolic analysis, as well as other modalities such as motion capture analysis. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR). He just received a funding for a 4-year project, granted by the Research Council of Norway, titled MIRAGE: A Comprehensive AI-Based System for Advanced Music Analysis. One postdoc position will open soon. |
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Peter Edwards is Head of Department and Associate Professor at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo. He has published in Music Analysis, Music & Letters and in edited collections on the music of Ligeti and topics that intersect aesthetics, music analysis, cultural studies, music history and critical musicology. His monograph, György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque is published by Routledge. |
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Rolf Inge Godøy is professor of music theory at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, and a researcher at this university's RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion. His main interest is in phenomenological approaches to music theory, meaning taking our subjective experiences of music as the point of departure for music theory. This work has been expanded to include research on music-related body motion in performance and listening, using various conceptual and technological tools to explore the relationships between sound and body motion in the experience of music. |
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Rúnar Unnþórsson is a professor and head of the faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Iceland. Rúnar’s research interests lie within performance engineering and the application of acoustics and vibrations for applications such as sensory substitution, product design and non-destructive evaluations. |
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Sofia Dahl holds a PhD in Speech and Music communication from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. As associate professor at Aalborg University, campus Copenhagen, her primarily research field is embodied music cognition but her work spans disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, music performance and music acoustics. Being a drummer, she has a special focus on rhythmic movements and their link to our perception and control of timing and tempo. Her research includes studies of movements and timing in drumming, perception of timing and rhythm, and expressivity in players’ movements. |
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Stefania Serafin is Professor in sonic interaction design at Aalborg University in Copenhagen and project leader of the Nordic Smc network. She has been working at Aalborg University Copenhagen since 2003. She received a Ph.D. in Computer-Based Music Theory and Acoustics from Stanford University in 2004, and a Master in Acoustics, Computer Science and Signal Processing Applied to Music from IRCAM (Paris) in 1997. She is the president of the Sound and Music Computing Association. Her main research interest is sonic interaction design and sound for virtual and augmented reality. |
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Prof. Vesa Välimäki is the Vice Dean for research at the Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Espoo, Finland. He is a Full Professor of audio signal processing at Aalto University. He received the MSc in Technology and the Doctor of Science in Technology degrees from the Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. In 2008-2009, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. He was the Chairman of the Sound and Music Computing Conference SMC-17, in 2017. |
