The Musical Gestures Project (IMT)

WaveCamp is a summer camp for young persons interested in music and technology. Organized at Steilene, a group of islands in the Oslo archipelago, the camp will give 24 young participants (17-19 years old) from the Nordic countries, the chance to learn about, and work with, music technology. The program will consist of daily lectures and workshops given by university professors and professionals, and group projects where the aim is to build a sound installation controlled by nature (wind, waves, etc). During the week, the participants will get a broad introduction to various music technological theories, tools and techniques, and get inspiration for further work and studies within the field. The working language of the camp is Norwegian, so all participants must be fluent in one of the Scandinavian languages.

WaveCamp is organised by members of the Musical Gestures Group at the University of Oslo, in cooperation with NOTAM and the Norwegian Assoctiation of Young Scientists, and is funded by the Nordic Culture Fund, the Arts Council Norway and the Faculty of Humanities, UiO.

Refer to the WaveCamp pages for more information (Norwegian only).

Deadline for fulltime PhD research fellow positions at the Faculty of Arts is 1 March:
http://www.hf.uio.no/forskning/english/research-fellowships.html
http://www.admin.uio.no/opa/ledige-stillinger/inntil15univstipHF433.html

There is also an opening for fellowships for visiting researchers, particularly from North-America, from the Norwegian Research Council, which also have deadline 1 March.

Please contact us if you are considering any of these possibilites.

The International Gesture Workshop is an interdisciplinary event where researchers working on gesture-based communication present and exchange ideas and research currently in progress across disciplines. This workshop encompasses all aspects of gestural studies in the field of Human Computer Interaction and Simulation. A focus of these events is a shared interest in using gesture and sign language in human-computer interaction. In addition to welcoming submission of work by established researchers, it is the tradition of the GW series of workshops to encourage submission of student work at various stages of completion. Submissions include papers, posters or demonstrations.

GW2005 is the 6th European Gesture Workshop in the GW series initiated in 1996. Since this event, the gesture workshops have been held roughly every second year, with fully reviewed post-proceedings typically published by Springer-Verlag.

The workshop will consist of three full days of sessions presenting research papers, posters, and demonstrations.

6th International Gesture Workshop GW '05
University of Bretagne Sud, Vannes
(Berder Island) - FRANCE
May 18-20 2005

More information

PD Workshop organized by the Cost287-ConGAS WG3. University of York, UK, March 21-22, 2005. Visit the Congas site for more information.

The European Union COST Action 287, ConGAS (Gesture Controlled Audio Systems) and the Musical Gestures Project at the Department of Music and Theatre organise the seminar Basic issues of gesture and musical sound. December 3 2004, 10:00 to 18:30. Department of Music and Theatre, ZEB building, University of Oslo, Blindern Campus. Street address: Sem Sælands vei 2.