Hi, and welcome to Music Moves.
My name is Alexander Jensenius.
And I'm Hans Zeiner-Henriksen.
And I'm Kristian Nymoen.
And now we're sitting here at the Department of Musicology
at the University of Oslo, and we
are interested in music related body motion.
And the question that we want to answer
is why does music make us move?
But then, Hans, I'd like to ask you, does music make us move?
Well, if I shall ask answer for myself,
I will definitely say yes.
I experience that I move a lot to music when I hear music.
But I'm not sure if it's like that for everybody,
and I'm not sure what in the music
is most important for that.
What do you think, Kristian?
I would say it's a complicated question, but especially
the rhyhtm, and the way the music is communicated
through emotion, that's very important parts, at least,
of how music makes you move.
So, what exactly are we going to talk about, then,
in this course?
Well, we are going to talk about specific concepts.
The entrainment process, for example.
What makes me nod my head.
Terminology such as the difference between motion
and action, and gesture.
And we are going to talk about the history.
Why we have arrived at the situation
we have today, for example.
Technologies for studying music related body motion.
So as you see, you're going to learn
a lot about different types of theoretical approaches
to this, methods to use, and, of course, also
some of the research that we are producing
when we study music related body motion
at the University of Oslo.
Welcome to Music Moves.