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Similar vs dissimilar gestures
Define gesture:
combine modalities and intentionality
may not need sound
Book: Musicking Bodies
how does studying movement help us understand rhythm?
Cretan dance + Jewish dance
Gesture may be required to make sound
How conflict between perceived + "able" gesture or pattern
David Huron - interval....heard as separate streams of not physically possible to perform by human
Gesturing helps learn melodies
gesturing while listening
posture reflects musical events (low frequencies and frequency, for example)
Some culture encourage (Turkish) or discourage (N. Indian) gesturing during performance
sometimes it is essential to produce sound
Gesturing can be categorized in two flavors:
morphokinetic - shape
topokinetic - intentionality
Theramin performance - the insecurity of some performers can be heard from the sound output
African music
Movement = signal, which has meaning
drum call --> gesture
"sensor synesthesia"
objects influence grammar + body
ideational gesture is important
Japanese dance - flowing
complementarity of dance movement helps disambiguate unfamiliar music
variability of movement
David Newman - N. Indian learning by rote --> body creates
Recording Gesture - how do we capture and measure?
A/V - frame by frame, manual annotation of periodic movements.
continuous movement - how long is a phrase? tempo? contour?
gesture in an intimate setting - what are conditions that hinder gesturing?
hiring professionals = ecological vs precision vs budget
Gesture vs movement:
movement tracking, high fideltiy or gesture recognition modeling = categorize symbols
IRCAM - training system where it integrates highly variable movements to recognize it's the same shape
correlate gestures in commands
Luis Naveda - has PureData library for motion
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