Empirical Musicology Review  

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson,Mats B. Küssner

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Alexander Refsum Jensenius,Rolf Inge Godøy

The paper presents sonomotiongram, a technique for the creation of auditory displays of human body motion based on motiongrams. A motiongram is a visual display of motion, based on frame differencing and reduction of a regular video recording. The resulta... see more

Michael Filimowicz

This commentary responds to Jensenius and Godøy’s paper, “Sonifying the shape of human body motion using motiongrams.” Here I outline key aesthetic challenges to be addressed in future research in the sonification of video and gesture.

Thomas Hermann

This commentary starts with a critical reflection on Jensenius and Godøy’s sonomotiongrams as a sonification technique to represent movement shapes. Based on this we propose alternative mappings that require less information reduction. Furthermore, design... see more

Bryony Buck,Jennifer MacRitchie,Nicholas J. Bailey

Research has indicated that the magnitude of physical expressive movements during a performance helps to communicate a musician's affective intent. However, the underlying function of these performance gestures remains unclear. Nine highly skilled solo pi... see more

John Rink

In their study of nine pianists Buck, MacRitchie and Bailey observe a universal embodiment of phrasing structure and other higher-level structural features of the music, the physical makeup of which is nevertheless particular to both the individual perfor... see more

Steven Livingstone

During performance, musicians are known to move their bodies in rhythmic and expressive displays. Buck, MacRitchie, and Bailey’s intriguing article aims to show that these visual gestures reflect a musician’s expressive interpretation of the composition a... see more

Genevieve L. Noyce,Mats B. Küssner,Peter Sollich

Research on auditory-visual correspondences has a long tradition but innovative experimental paradigms and analytic tools are sparse. In this study, we explore different ways of analysing real-time visual representations of sound and music drawn by both m... see more

Daniel Müllensiefen

This review discusses the original contributions and strengths of the target article by Noyce, Küssner and Sollich and also suggests a few points for consideration to maximize the usefulness of their analytical approach for the music psychology research c... see more

Christian Hennig

This review focuses on the statistical aspects of "Quantifying Shapes". A number of decisions made by the authors are discussed regarding the choice of methods and how exactly they are applied and their results interpreted. Most space is devoted to issues... see more