Gesture (breakout session)

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