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ALEXANDER REFSUM JENSENIUS

I am Professor of music technology and Director of RITMO Centre for
Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, University of Oslo. I
study music-related body motion in the fourMs Lab. Editor of A NIME Reader and
Sonic Design. Author of Sound Actions and Still Standing.



WHY I LIKE SMS AND E-MAIL

Yesterday, I wrote about why I don’t like MS Teams. My frustration about this
Microsoft product (or perhaps better, platform*) could have been directed at
most other commercial platforms. Common to all is the attempt to lock users into
a software ecosystem that they cannot easily escape without losing their
information. But what is the option? Over the years, I have developed my own
workflows, including practical strategies for handling files and folders....

October 19, 2024 · 3 min · 455 words · ARJ


WHY I DON'T LIKE MS TEAMS

We have MS Teams at the University of Oslo (as in many other places), and it is
increasingly used by administrative staff. Some academics use it as well, but
less so in my experience. I use it when other people force me to, but I would
never force others to use it. In this blog post, I explain why. No Linux support
I have been using exclusively Linux-based operating systems for more than ten
years....

October 18, 2024 · 4 min · 800 words · ARJ


20 YEARS OF PIANO RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO

We are fortunate to have received funding from UiO’s infrastructure board to
purchase a new Yamaha Disklavier grand piano for the Department of Musicology.
We have applied for this several times and are grateful to the university for
making such an investment. To celebrate the new instrument, we organized the
seminar New Horizons in Piano Performance Research during which I did a
“lecture-recital” talking a little about the history of piano research in the
department and stress-testing the new instrument....

September 17, 2024 · 5 min · 976 words · ARJ


20 YEARS OF CONCERT RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO

Today, we organized a Workshop on Concert Research at RITMO. I held the opening
lecture, giving an overview of the concert research conducted in the fourMs Lab
at the University of Oslo from the early 2000s to today. Over the years, we have
explored and refined our data capture methods. Initially, we did qualitative
observation studies combined with interviews and performer diaries. Then, we
moved on to video-based analyses, including the development of the Musical
Gestures Toolbox....

September 11, 2024 · 1 min · 213 words · ARJ


EMBODIED MUSICKING TECHNOLOGIES

This text was written for the festschrift for the symposium on 6 September 2024
celebrating Marc Leman’s achievements as professor of Ghent University and
marking his retirement. In his seminal book Embodied Music Cognition and
Mediation Technology, Marc Leman (2008) drew up a theoretical framework that has
influenced a whole new generation of researchers, myself included. Building on a
long tradition of systematic musicology, combined with ecological psychology and
modern technology, he convincingly set the direction for a fresh approach to
scientific studies of musical experiences....

September 6, 2024 · 9 min · 1856 words · ARJ


RECORDING BACKGROUND AND FOREGROUND AUDIO

I am on vacation in Chile and exploring various techniques for recording sounds
around me. I do some outdoor recordings but try to focus on indoor environments
because of my ongoing AMBIENT project. In this blog post, I reflect on how
challenging it has been. Annual projects The recordings are part of my annual
sonic rhythm project, which is my third annual project. In 2022, I recorded one
sound action per day....

July 26, 2024 · 4 min · 790 words · ARJ


THE RHYTHM OF STAIRWALKING

I am on vacation in northern Chile and encountered an interesting staircase in
one of our hotels. The uppermost step was a little higher than the others,
causing the whole family to stumble almost every time we passed it on the way
upwards. Similarly, we always got a few extra centimeters when walking down,
making us almost fall over when starting the escalation. This staircase reminded
me about action programs, the anticipation of actions based on a perceived
rhythm....

July 17, 2024 · 1 min · 151 words · ARJ


ADDING DESCRIPTIONS TO MY BLOG

I have generally been very happy about moving my blog to Hugo, except that I
have struggled with getting it properly indexed with Google, Bing, etc. One of
the benefits of using standard WordPress is that it comes with a lot of
automatic functions for such things. In theory, that should also happen with
Hugo. However, for some reason, my blog did not work. After various trials and
errors, I think I am getting on the right track....

July 13, 2024 · 2 min · 399 words · ARJ


TRIPNOTE SUMMER 2024

Today is midsummer, and with that I enter “summer mode”. A year ago, I wrote
about why I chose to make an explanatory tripnote. Nowadays, most people are
never really offline. Still, we all need time off. For me, that includes doing
many things that I don’t typically have time to during the busy semesters. I
received many positive comments on my tripnote last year, so I decided to make
another this year....

June 21, 2024 · 2 min · 316 words · ARJ


DATA, METADATA AND PARADATA

I have had some interesting discussions about what constitutes metadata these
days. What is really the difference between metadata and data? While
participating in ESOF today, I came across the term paradata, which was new to
me. What is that, and how does it differ from data and metadata? Data Data
refers to raw facts, observations, measurements, or representations of
information in various formats, such as numbers, text, images, audio, or
video....

June 13, 2024 · 4 min · 775 words · ARJ
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