Playing “air instruments”: mimicry of sound-producing gestures by novices and experts

Authors:
Rolf Inge Godøy;Egil Haga;Alexander Refsum Jensenius
Affiliations:
Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway;Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway;Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway
Venue:
GW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Both musicians and non-musicians can often be seen making sound-producing gestures in the air without touching any real instruments. Such “air playing” can be regarded as an expression of how people perceive and imagine music, and studying the relationships between these gestures and sound might contribute to our knowledge of how gestures help structure our experience of music.