Presentation
Music concerts are common cultural events at which tens to hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously engage in a shared experience. Modern technologies offer us new views into what is happening during these events, on stage and in the audience, however interpreting measurement patterns across these crowds poses distinct challenges. The music performed in concerts is complex and variable, factors influencing audiences and musicians behaviour are multimodal and multidirectional. Given the wide array of unknowns at play, data-driven analyse strategies offer a valuable alternative to the paradigms and theories from more controlled experimental practices. This talk presents a series of results from concert experiments where carefully-detected consistencies across participants and performances offered unexpected insights into how we move, breathe, and even tweet together in concert.
Speaker
Finn Upham is music scientist at Oslo University's RITMO, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, with a formal background in mathematics, music theory, and music technology. Their research has focused on detecting and interpreting consistencies in human behaviour in naturalistic musical contexts, working with psychophysiological signals, movement measurements, and subjective reports of experience, adapting statistical techniques and signal processing strategies to the particular circumstances of music.
Program
11:45 – Doors open and lunch is served
12:00 – Talk by Finn Upham, Postdoc, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
This event is open for all students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and everyone else who is interested in the topic. No registration needed.
About the seminar series
Once a month, dScience will invite you to join us for lunch and professional talks at the Science Library. In addition to these, we will serve lunch in our lounge in Kristine Bonnevies house every Thursday. Due to limited space (40 people), this will be first come, first served. See how to find us here.
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