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Geometry and Effort in Gestural Renderings of Musical Sound

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As may be seen at concerts and in various everyday listening situations, people often make spontaneous gestures when listening to music. We believe these gestures are interesting to study because they may reveal important features of musical experience. In particular, hand movements may give us information on what features are perceived as salient by listeners. Based on various current ideas on embodied cognition, the aim of this paper is to argue that gestures are integral to music perception, and to present research in support of this. A conceptual model of separating geometry and effort is presented in order to better understand the variety of music-related gestures we may observe, leading up to some ideas on how to apply this conceptual model in present and future research.

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  1. Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, P.B. 1017, Blindern, N-0315, Oslo, Norway

    Rolf Inge Godøy

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  1. Microsoft and ISCTE, Microsoft Language Development Center, C1 and C2, Av. Doutor Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Tagus Park, 2744-010, Porto Salvo, Portugal

    Miguel Sales Dias

  2. Laboratoire Valoria, Centre de Recherche Yves Coppens, Université de Bretagne-Sud, Campus de Tohannic, 56000, Vannes, France

    Sylvie Gibet

  3. Schulich School of Music, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), McGill University, 555, Sherbrooke Street West, H3A 1E3, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Marcelo M. Wanderley

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Godøy, R.I. (2009). Geometry and Effort in Gestural Renderings of Musical Sound. In: Sales Dias, M., Gibet, S., Wanderley, M.M., Bastos, R. (eds) Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation. GW 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5085. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92865-2_23

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