Today is midsummer, and with that I enter “summer mode”. A year ago, I wrote about why I chose to make an explanatory tripnote. Nowadays, most people are never really offline. Still, we all need time off. For me, that includes doing many things that I don’t typically have time to during the busy semesters. I received many positive comments on my tripnote last year, so I decided to make another this year. Here it is:
Hi,
Thanks for contacting me. I have entered summer mode, combining family life, traveling, and conducting slow research. I read e-mail occasionally, but please don’t expect a quick reply.
This week, I am in Stockholm, supporting my daughters’ marching band. School marching bands are popular in Norway, and they are a great way of encouraging musicking among young people, across genders and age groups.
Besides family life, my main goal this summer is to complete the draft of my new monograph, Still Standing. This involves analyzing recordings of my daily standstills in 2023, which gave me the nickname Professor Standstill in national media.
Want something to read over the summer? Check out my latest monograph, Sound Actions - Conceptualizing Musical Instruments. It summarizes 20 years of research on the intersection of music technology and psychology and is available as a free PDF download.
My new anthology, Sonic Design - Explorations between Art and Science, is also freely available and contains 17 chapters honoring the work of Professor Rolf Inge Godøy.
If you understand Norwegian (or want to learn), please check out the podcasts of Abels KORK, based on a large-scale concert experiment we did this spring, involving capturing respiration, heart rate, and motion of a full symphony orchestra and a group of audience members.
Also, remember that we have three active courses running on the FutureLearn platform: Music Moves, Motion Capture, and Pupillometry.
Happy holidays!
And with that, happy holidays!