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RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion. RITMO is an interdisciplinary research centre at UiO, focused on rhythm, time and motion.

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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Arthur Jinyue Guo will have his disputation on Tuesday, September 22, starting with trial lecture at 11:15 CEST, followed by public defence at 13:15 CEST. Read more about it here:
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Public defence: Machine Synchresis: How can machines learn to hear and see the rooms? - Department of Musicology
Master Jinyue Guo will defend his dissertation Machine Synchresis: Immersive and Embodied Audio–Video Information Retrieval for Indoor Environments for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember Anna-Maria's disputation today at 11:15 CEST!
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anna-Maria Christodoulou will have her disputation on Friday, September 18, starting with trial lecture at 11:15 CEST, followed by public defence at 13:15 CEST. Read more about it here:
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Public defence: Computational Music Performance Analysis: A multimodal, context-informed approach - Department of Musicology
Master Anna-Maria Christodoulou at the Department of Musicology will defend her dissertation Computational Music Performance Analysis: A multimodal, context-informed approach  for the degree of philos...
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Want to find something specific in Norway’s entire historical archive of music, film, and audio recordings?🔍😵‍💫 This new AI tool might soon help you!
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Research unlocks new ways of searching video and music archives - Research News
She trains AI models to answer far more complex questions than before. “It’s completely new, and it could open many doors,” music professor says.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Remember Sandra Solli's disputation today at 12:15 CEST!
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sandra Solli will have her disputation on Thursday, August 27, starting with trial lecture at 12:15 CEST, followed by public defence at 14:15 CEST. Read more about it here:
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Public defence: Sandra Solli - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Master of science in engineering Sandra Solli will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Psychology: Rhythm-Based Temporal Expectation: Delineating the Roles of Predictability and Periodi...
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Remember Bálint Laczkó's disputation today at 11:15 CEST 🥳
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Bálint Laczkó will have his disputation on Wednesday, August 19, starting with trial lecture at 11:15 CEST, followed by public defence at 13:15 CEST. Read more about it here:
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Public defence: Listening to cells under the microscope—how turning images into sound can reveal what is hidden in plain sight - Department of Musicology
Master Bálint Laczkó at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Instrumental Image Sonification  for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
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Lara Pearson @musicalgesture.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The 17 August deadline for this postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Oslo is fast approaching. Looking for someone keen to explore gesture, vocalization and sense-making in song performance. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral research fellowship in gesture-vocalization relations in song performance (301742) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral research fellowship in gesture-vocalization relations in song performance (301742), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, August 17, 2026
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MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity @mishmashcentre.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You are all cordially invited to MishMash's Opening Conference, 'Interdisciplinary research on AI in cultural & creative ecosystems' in Kristiansand on 14 September 2026. kilden.com/program/4781...
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Opening Conference of the MishMash Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Creativity - Kilden
Opening Conference of the MishMash Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Creativity‘Interdisciplina...
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We would like to recommend the podcast "The Inner Life of Music"!🎧 The first two episodes are about sound-motion objects, and concert research, with conversations with RITMO's Emeritus Professor Rolf Inge Godøy, and Researcher Simon Høffding. Thanks to podcast host Professor Mine Doğantan-Dack!
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THE INNER LIFE OF MUSIC
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Remember Pedro Lucas' disputation today, at 11:15 CEST!
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Pedro Lucas will have his disputation on Monday, June 22, starting with trial lecture at 11:15 CEST, followed by public defence at 13:15 CEST. Read more about it here:
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Public defence: Pedro Pablo Lucas Bravo - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Master Pedro Pablo Lucas Bravo at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Human-Swarm Interactive Music Systems, Exploring Collaborative Son...
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Who doesn't want to jam with a swarm of AI agents based on birds and ants?🐜🎶 Read about Pedro Lucas' musical XR swarm system:
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Human–AI Jamming: How Swarm Intelligence Can Shape Music - Research News
New research is turning to the animal kingdom for inspiration while experimenting with new ways of making music using AI.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Remember today's seminar with Professor Elizabeth Margulis, at 13:15 CEST!
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Alejandro Blenkmann @ablenkmann.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Next week, Professor of Music at Princeton University, Elizabeth Margulis (@margulisa.bsky.social), will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series about "What We Think About When We (Don’t) Think About Music". 📅Tuesday, June 2, 13:15 CEST.
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What We Think About When We (Don’t) Think About Music - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Professor of Music at Princeton University, Elizabeth Margulis, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Are you in Oslo next week? Then you should join us for a free evening show by Sinsenfist and a science experiment to capture how performers and audiences build live music concerts🎶 More info about this #MusicLab event here:
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MusicLab Sinsenfist - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Join us for a free evening show by Sinsenfist and a science experiment to capture how performers and audiences build live music concerts.
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Alejandro Blenkmann @ablenkmann.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We’re hosting a hybrid symposium on Neurophysiological mechanisms supporting attention and prediction. 📅 11 June 2026, 09:00–14:00 ECT 📍 Psychology Department, University of Oslo + online www.uio.no/ritmo/englis... All welcome! @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social @uio.no
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Neurophysiological mechanisms supporting attention and prediction - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
RITMO/CTNC hybrid symposium June 11th 2026
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Remember today's Seminar Series with Associate Professor of Computer Science Bob L. T. Sturm at 13:15 CEST!
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Perspectives after the MUSAiC Project - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Associate Professor of Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Bob L. T. Sturm, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Next week, Associate Professor of Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Bob L. T. Sturm, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series about "Perspectives after the MUSAiC Project". 📅Tuesday, May 5, 13:15 CEST.
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Perspectives after the MUSAiC Project - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Associate Professor of Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Bob L. T. Sturm, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Join Maham Riaz' public defence today at 11:15 CEST! In Forsamlingssalen, and streaming on YouTube:
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Public defence: Maham Riaz
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Maham Riaz will have her disputation next Tuesday, April 7, starting with trial lecture at 11:15 CEST, followed by public defence at 13:15 CEST. Read more about it here:
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Public defence: Designing Spaces That Live With Us - Department of Musicology
Master Maham Riaz will defend her dissertation Embodied Spaces: Explorations in Spatial Audio–Video Recording and Ambient Interventions for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
When birdsong suddenly appears, it affects us, and most often in a positive way🎶🐦 That's our experience from RITMO from when Maham Riaz carried out an experiment on her unsuspecting colleagues😅
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When Birds Sing Indoors - Research News
“I didn’t realize how tense I was until the birds started, and then I immediately relaxed.” This was how one study participant described his experience when birdsong filled his workplace.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Our brains predict the world before it happens🧠 Postdoctoral researcher Vinicius Rezende Carvalho studies how brain rhythms shape predictions and how deep brain recordings can unlock new insight into cognition, perception, and language. @viniciusrc.bsky.social
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Vinícius Rezende Carvalho
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
What happens when nature, technology, and music meet?🐜🎶 PhD fellow Pedro Lucas explores how swarms, biology, and extended reality can shape new interactive musical systems where humans and intelligent agents improvise together.
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Pedro Lucas
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The brain turns chaos into meaning🤯🧠 PhD fellow Olgerta Asko studies the prefrontal cortex to understand how we make predictions about the world and transform information into action. @olgasko.bsky.social
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Olgerta Asko
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Alejandro Blenkmann @ablenkmann.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Really nice experience being interviewed on hyperscanning together with Anne-Kristin Solbakk and Sigurd Alnes by Elise Kjørstad. When we measure brain activity from multiple people at once, the brains synchronize. 🔗 www.forskning.no/hjerneforskn... @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social @uio.no
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Når forskere måler hjerneaktiviteten til flere samtidig, skjer det noe rart
– Plutselig ser man at det skjer ting mellom mennesker som man ikke kan se, sier forsker.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
EDM is made for the dance floor but created in the solitude of digital audio workstations🎛️ Postdoctoral researcher Baptiste Bacot studies how producers use DAWs, how technology influences their decisions, and how technology reshapes the way they make and think about music.
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Baptiste Bacot
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
What happens in the body and brain when we improvise?🧠 PhD fellow Atilla Vrasdonk studies flamenco artists and jazz musicians to understand the behavior and cognition of creativity and improvisation💃
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Atilla Vrasdonk
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
RITMO's annual report is out! Have a look at what we did in 2025 🥳
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Annual Report 2025 - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
RITMO is now entering its last phase. Many doctoral and postdoctoral fellows are approaching the end of their projects, so there are many analyses to complete, datasets to prepare for archiving, and m...
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Kyrre Glette @kyrre2000.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Still some time to apply for our MishMash postdoc position "AI Methods for Creative Applications" with deadline 1 March. Also check out the 13 other postings for PhD / postdoc at mishmash.no ! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in AI Methods for Creative Applications (291829) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in AI Methods for Creative Applications (291829), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026
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Lara Pearson @musicalgesture.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Deadline approaching soon: 28 February!! A postdoctoral research fellowship on gesture-vocalization interactions in three vocal performance traditions, based at the University of Oslo. If you have any questions about the position, please get in touch!
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
When we encounter something completely unfamiliar, our bodies know what to do before our minds catch up!🏃🧠 Read about Martin Pleiß' research here: www.uio.no/english/rese...
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Where Humans Outshine AI: “There is something quietly hopeful in these findings” - Research News
Humans are remarkably well equipped to meet the unknown – and not just because of our brains, new research suggests.
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SysMus @sysmus.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
📢 Calling all musicology students! The abstract deadline for #SysMus26 at Durham University is Jan 31! 🗓️ 📍 Durham, UK + Online (Hybrid) 📅 22–24 July 2026 💰 Limited travel funding available for unwaged presenters! Submit your abstract here: musicscience.net/events/sysmu... #SysMus #AcademicSky
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Sylvie Nozaradan @sylvienozaradan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
How to think about culture in psychology and neuroscience? What about seeing it as a source and product of perceptual plasticity? Such an inspiring journey to co-write this paper with R Polak, A Danielsen, N Jacoby, L Pearson, S Horlor, S Aubinet, J London. osf.io/preprints/ps... Feedback welcome!
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Join Olgerta Asko's public defence today at 10:15 CET! In Forsamlingssalen, and streaming on YouTube: www.uio.no/ritmo/englis... @olgasko.bsky.social
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Public defence: Olgerta Asko - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Master Olgerta Asko at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, is defending the thesis Predictive processing in human prefrontal cortex: Causal contributions of orbitofrontal and lat...
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Perhaps you should start the new year with welcoming life's surprises?🤔 Your brain becomes slightly more fine-tuned every time you have an experience that defies your expectations!🧠 Read about @olgasko.bsky.social's research here: www.uio.no/english/rese...
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Why You Should Welcome Life's Surprises with Gratitude - Research News
Each time you have an experience that defies your expectations, your brain becomes slightly more fine-tuned.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Huge congratulations to Guilherme Câmara, who has received funding from the Research Council of Norway for his project “GROOVE: Mapping, Modeling, and Perceiving the Combinatorics of Groove-Based Rhythms”! 🥳 Read about it here (Norwegian): www.hf.uio.no/om/aktuelt/a...
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Skal forske på hvorfor musikk gjør at vi får lyst til å bevege oss - Det humanistiske fakultet
Guilherme Schmidt Câmara er tildelt ti millioner kroner for å undersøke hvorfor bestemte kombinasjoner av rytmer oppleves kroppslig og sosialt samlende.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
📣We have a 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 in the computational analysis of gesture-vocalization interactions. The position is connected to our new project 𝘊𝘰-𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 (𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘎𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦) led by Research Professor Lara Pearson
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Postdoctoral research fellowship in the computational analysis of gesture-vocalization interactions (289576) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral research fellowship in the computational analysis of gesture-vocalization interactions (289576), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, February 28, 2026
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Lara Pearson @musicalgesture.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Just published, the co-structuring of gesture-vocal dynamics in vocal performance, with @wimpouw.bsky.social and Thomas Nuttall. Which dimensions of hand and head gestures co-structure with which vocal modalities, and how does this differ across individuals? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Co‐Structuring of Gesture‐Vocal Dynamics: An Exploration in Karnatak Music Performance
In music performance contexts, vocalists tend to gesture with hand and upper body movements as they sing. But how does this gesturing relate to the sung phrases, and how do singers’ gesturing styles ...
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The concert "Quantum Loops, Broken Symmetries" is now at 18:00 CET, which will be streamed on YouTube from Salen, ZEB, UiO. The program includes explorations into violins, self-playing pianos, AI and quantum computing with Eduardo Reck Miranda and Victoria Johnson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Panr...
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Concert: Quantum Loops, Broken Symmetries
YouTube video by UniOslo_RITMO
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Remember today's Seminar Series with Prof. Renee Timmers at 13:15 CET!
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Our next RITMO Seminar Series is Tuesday next week!🥳 Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will give a talk titled "Multimodality and Embodiment of Timing and Tempo". Read more here: www.uio.no/ritmo/englis...
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Multimodality and Embodiment of Timing and Tempo - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Starting at 13:15 CEST today!
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Our next RITMO Seminar Series is Tuesday next week!😁 Professor of Music at the University of Jyväskylä, Petri Toiviainen @ptoiviai.bsky.social, will give a talk titled "Embodied Dynamics of Metre Perception". Read more here:
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Embodied Dynamics of Metre Perception - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Professor of Music at the University of Jyväskylä, Petri Toiviainen, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Fadi al-Ghawanmeh will publicly defend his dissertation "Ṭarab and AI: Maqām Music Generation through Machine Translation and Motion Capture" on Thursday September 25. The defence is streamed on Zoom, link will be available on this website.
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Public defence: Ṭarab and AI: Maqām Music Generation through Machine Translation and Motion Capture - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Master Fadi al-Ghawanmeh at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Ṭarab and AI: Maqām Music Generation through Machine Translation and Motion Capture for the degree of philosophiae...
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Have you tried to just... listen? PhD candidate Maham Riaz writes about listening to our surroundings in our latest blog post!
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Dare to Listen - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Maham Riaz is a doctoral research fellow at RITMO whose work bridges music and technology.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Thursday, 11 September, we are excited about hosting a workshop with two renowned international artists, Kristin Norderval and Nick Wishart. Through hands-on sessions with EVII and Round Sounds, participants get to experience body-based music control and discuss the future of musicking technologies.
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Workshop: Body-Controlled Music Making - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Welcome to a workshop with Kristin Norderval and Nick Wishart, who will present new electronic instruments controlled with the body.
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
If you’re curious about how one of the world’s greatest musicians reflects on gender dynamics in classical music, the importance of mentorship, physical and mental resilience, and her personal philosophy for wellbeing, you can read the full interview with Mrs. Anne-Sophie Mutter here:
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Anne-Sophie Mutter on Music, Wellbeing, and Women in Performance - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
World-renowned violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter talks with music researcher Sara D’Amario about the challenges and joys of life as a professional musician.
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