Fields of interest:

• Drumming
• Players' motor control and interaction with the instrument
• Production and perception of timing and tempo
• Capture and analysis of expressive movement gestures

Sofia Dahl, Ph.D.
Aalborg University Copenhagen
Lautrupvang 15
DK-2750 Ballerup

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Biography

My current affiliation is with Aalborg University Copenhagen, Department of Media Technology where I have an appointment as assistant professor.

Since I defended my thesis at KTH Speech,Music, and Hearing in 2005, I have worked with Professor David Huron at Ohio State University (2006), and with Professor Eckart Altenmüller at Institute for Music Physiology and Music Medicine in Hannover (2007-2008), on a Marie Curie fellowship.

Being a drummer, I've taken special interest in percussionists' interaction with their instrument. Percussionists are musicians with highly specialised movements, and they are also expected to perform the same rhythmic pattern under varying circumstances (meaning different surfaces, mallets etc.) My research has included studies of movements and timing in drumming, perception of timing and rhythm, and the expressivity in players' movements. Some of this was included in my PhD Thesis: "On the beat: Human movement and timing in the production and perception of music"
I have been working in the European projects The Sounding Object (SOb) and Multisensory Expressive Gesture Applications (MEGA). For MEGA I was very involved in putting up the interactive game Ghost in the Cave. I was also a Swedish delegate for the cost action 287 ConGAS - Gesture CONtrolled Audio Systems.