Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement, and Meaning

Contents

Foreword
Editors' preface

Part I: Gestures in Music

1. Why study musical gestures?
Marc Leman and Rolf Inge Godøy

2. Musical Gestures: concepts and methods in research
Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Rolf Inge Godøy, and Marc Leman

3. Gestures in performance
Sofia Dahl, Frédéric Bevilacqua, Roberto Bresin, Martin Clayton, Laura Leante, Isabella Poggi, and Nicolas Rasamimanana

4. Music and Gestures: a historical introduction and survey of earlier research
Albrecht Schneider

Part II: Gestural Significations

5. Gestural affordances of musical sound
Rolf Inge Godøy

6. Music, Gesture, And The Formation Of Embodied Meaning
Marc Leman

7. The functional role and bio-kinetics of basic and expressive gestures in activation and sonification
Leon van Noorden

Part III: Gesture Generation And Control

8. Gesture and timbre
Tor Halmrast, Knut Guettler, Rolf Bader, and Rolf Inge Godøy

9. Sensorimotor control of sound-producing gestures
Sylvie Gibet

10. Visual gesture recognition: from motion tracking to expressive gesture
Antonio Camurri and Thomas B. Moeslund

11. Conductors’ gestures and their mapping to sound synthesis
Gunnar Johannsen and Teresa Marrin Nakra

Contributors
Index