MusicLab vol. 4: Utopia
Channel: UiO Realfagsbiblioteket
Date: 04/11/2019

01:45 Utopian / Dystopian concert with Tejaswinee Kelkar (IN), Çağrı Erdem (TR) and Qichao Lan (CN)
32:52 Intellectual warm-down with expert panel
1:08:54 Data Jockeying with Víctor González Sánchez

Muscle music, artificial intelligence, and a human subwoofer? The music in MusicLab volume 4 is experimental, electronic, and bodily – coming from biophysical data and expressed as bodily resonance.

MusicLab is a joint project between RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, and the UiO University Library. In MusicLab live music and live research go hand in hand and the audience gets a stunning musical experience while at the same time contributing to open science. 

ARTISTS

Tejaswinee Kelkar (IN) is an experimental musician who works with classical Indian music, samples, and improvisation on harmonium, melodica, and a disembodied voice.

Çağrı Erdem (TR) works with digital musical instruments. He explores the human body as a musical interface, with a particular focus on muscle interfaces and sound-motion dynamics.

Qichao Lan (CN) is a music programmer and sonic artist, with a background in computational linguistics, electroacoustic music composition, and live coding.

PANEL DISCUSSION

Alexander Refsum Jensenius is a music researcher / research-musician interested in music technology and how music moves us. He is the deputy director of RITMO.

Tejaswinee Kelkar is an experimental musician who works with classical Indian music, samples, and improvisation on harmonium, melodica and voice. She is also a researcher and recently submitted her PhD on the role of embodiment in melodic contour. 

Jonna Vuoskoski is an associate professor at RITMO. Her expertise is the psychology of music, and in particular social and embodied cognition in musical contexts.

Solveig Sørbø (moderator) is a librarian at the Science Library and a musician. She is the producer of MusicLab which she initiated together with Alexander Refsum Jensenius.

DATA JOCKEYING

Víctor González Sánchez is a music researcher working in the field of human motion science. He collected data from musicians and audience members during the performance and mixed them in the concluding Data Jockeying session.

https://www.uio.no/ritmo/english/news-and-events/events/musiclab/2019/utopia/index.html

MusicLab 4 was arranged at Kulturhuset during Oslo World 2019. Filmed and edited by Dan Michael O. Heggø (University of Oslo Science Library).