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Motion, Music, Mediation: Bridging Tradition and Technology in Swedish Folk Dance-Music
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Human Centered Technology, Media Technology and Interaction Design, MID.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0646-5426
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Abstract [en]

This exposition delves into the outcomes of a collaborative research project involving a group of Swedish folk musicians and dancers. The project employs optical motion capture (Mocap) as a tool to explore collective performance and create innovative artistic expressions by merging traditional practices with contemporary media technologies. As a musician engaged with dancers, the author investigates ways to mediate dance through the sonification and visualisation of Mocap data. The focus is on the fundamental connection between sound and movement in this performance practice, particularly showcased in the project's centrepiece, "Dancing Dots." This performance combines live music and dance with sonic and visual displays derived from Mocap studio recordings. The exposition also applies music and dance theoretical concepts in designing movement sonification, examining their relevance in an artistic context. The use of optical motion capture is contextualised as a means to convey actions through narrow streams of movement data, challenging traditional notions of performance interaction. The exposition introduces the tool SonifyFOLK for accessible sonification of folk-dance movement data, and the methods and results are grounded in a practice-based understanding of the rhythmic/metric framework of the Swedish Polska. The ultimate goal is to develop new avenues for artistic expression in Swedish folk music and dance by introducing novel interfaces between music and dance, thereby creating an immersive visual/sonic landscape that extends the traditional art form into new performance contexts.

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Music Other Engineering and Technologies
Research subject
Media Technology; Human-computer Interaction
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-357275OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-357275DiVA, id: diva2:1918857
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Submitted in the format of the Research Catalogue https://www.researchcatalogue.net/ 

Available from: 2024-12-06 Created: 2024-12-06 Last updated: 2025-02-21Bibliographically approved
In thesis
1. Music-Dance Mediations: Performative Explorations into an Asymmetrical Type of the Swedish Polska
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Music-Dance Mediations: Performative Explorations into an Asymmetrical Type of the Swedish Polska
2024 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This thesis collects a series of works that engage with Swedish folk music, dance, theory and practice. The studies provide insights into the articulation of rhythm and meter in a local style of the Swedish polska and the interactions between such elements in music and dance performances. The studies exemplify a novel combination of diverse methodologies, including music and dance performance data analysis, design methods, and artistic methods in support of practice-led investigations conducted in close collaboration with the involved dancers. A preliminary concept for accessible sonification of motion captured folk dance is presented, focusing on contextually informed selections of movement parameters. This mediation of movement data through sonification plays a central role in exploring music theory concepts by applying them in artistic practice. The results illustrate the multidimensional character of sound and movement interactions within the local polska type. In addition, artistic works are presented that transcend the participatory performance context of polska dance and explore new artistic potential in the practice of playing for dancing in Swedish folk.

Abstract [sv]

Denna avhandling samlar en serie studier som berör svensk folkmusik och dans i teori och praktik. Studierna ger insikter i artikulationen av rytm och meter i en lokal stil av svensk polska samt om dessa element i samspelet mellan musik och dans. Studierna exemplifierar en ny kombination av olika metoder, inklusive dataanalys av musik- och dansframföranden, designmetoder och konstnärliga metoder till stöd för praktikledda undersökningar utförda i nära samarbete med de inblandade dansarna. Avhandlingen presenterar ett preliminärt koncept för tillgänglig sonifiering av rörelsedata från folkdans, med fokus på kontextuellt informerade urval av rörelseparametrar. Mediering av rörelsedata genom sonifiering spelar en central roll för att utforska musikteoretiska begrepp genom tillämpningar i konstnärlig praktik. Resultaten illustrerar den flerdimensionella karaktären av ljud och rörelseinteraktioner inom den specifika polsketypen. Dessutom presenteras konstnärliga verk som går utöver polskans sociala framförandekontext och utforskar nya uttrycksmöjligheter inom praktiken att spela till dans i svensk folkmusik.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2024. p. 89
Series
TRITA-EECS-AVL ; 2025:6
Keywords
Rhythm, Motion Capture, Sonification, Folk music and dance, Traditional music, Polska, Rytm, Motion Capture, Sonifiering, Folkmusik och dans, Traditionell musik, Polska
National Category
Music Computer and Information Sciences
Research subject
Media Technology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-357276 (URN)978-91-8106-152-9 (ISBN)
Public defence
2025-01-20, https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/61613077491, Kungasalen, Kungliga Musikhögskolan, Valhallavägen 105, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2024-12-06 Created: 2024-12-06 Last updated: 2025-04-01Bibliographically approved

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