Date: Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
Time: 16:00 - 19:00
Location: Aula am Campus, Hof 1 (Map)
We kindly ask you for a non-binding registration at medialab.philkult@univie.ac.at - Thank you!
The event is free of charge!
Program:
16:00 Welcome
MediaLab head Jörg Mühlhans welcomes you and briefly introduces the 3 speakers of the event.
16:15 Felix Klooss (University of Vienna) - Augmented Reality in Musicology
Join us for a riveting presentation on the use of augmented reality (AR) in musicology. Discover how AR, enhanced by motion capture, helps dissect the interaction between musicians and their environments by separating visual and auditory elements. This approach provides a clearer understanding of their impact on musical performances. Whether you are an academic, a music professional, or simply have an interest in technology, join us to explore the transformative potential of AR in advancing music research.
Felix Klooss is a musicologist who holds a predoctoral position at the MediaLab of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies. His research interests include augmented reality, motion capture, and directional hearing.
16:45 Laura Bishop (University of Oslo) - Coordination of bodily rhythms and experiences of musical togetherness in ensemble playing
Coordination for ensemble musicians is not only about aligning sound. Musicians need to feel together to sound together. Feeling together can involve moving together, watching each other, and sharing emotional responses. Current technologies for capturing body activity allow us to study the relationships that emerge between ensemble musicians in body rhythms. In this talk, I will present research on how musicians in small classical ensembles use different body modalities to communicate and establish a sense of “musical togetherness”.
Laura Bishop is a researcher at the University of Oslo in Norway, working in the fields of cognitive and experimental psychology and specializing in music cognition and performance science.
17:15 Christoph Reuter (University of Vienna) - Data Science with Tools from SInES
Since 2023, the Space for Interdisciplinary Experiments on Sound (SInES) of the Vienna Department of Systematic Musicology has been offering a range of free online tools at sinestools.univie.ac.at that can be used to collect data from audio (wav, mp3) and video (mp4) files. The tools enable the automatic recording of hand and body movements, emotions in facial expressions, pitches and a variety of audio features, all of which can be further processed as numerical values in programs such as Excel or Matlab. The possibilities and limitations of these tools will be presented in the lecture.
Christoph Reuter is Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on acoustic, physiological and psychological aspects of music perception as well as music-related internet/software projects.
17:45 Live Demonstration of the Motion-Capture System with Q&A
The MediaLab team will demonstrate the system and software live with some cameras and a simple setup, where you can see how motion in space is converted into data and visualized in different ways. Experience how a model is trained and recognized by the system, learn what “ghosts and gaps” are and how data preparation works in motion capture.
18:15 Buffet and Networking
After the official part of the event, we would like to invite you to join us for drinks and snacks, to get to know new people with common interests and, of course, to ask the team how the “MoCap” system can be used for research in the Medialab.