Effective and Expressive Movements in a French-Canadian fiddler's Performance

Erwin Schoonderwaldt, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2011
• Location: Oslo, Norway
• Pages: 256–259
• Keywords: fiddler, violin, French-Canadian, bowing, feet, clogging, motion capture, video, motiongram, kinematics, sonification
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178155 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

We report on a performance study of a French-Canadian fiddler. The fiddling tradition forms an interesting contrast toclassical violin performance in several ways. Distinguishingfeatures include special elements in the bowing techniqueand the presence of an accompanying foot clogging pattern.These two characteristics are described, visualized and analyzed using video and motion capture recordings as sourcematerial.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Schoonderwaldt2011,
 abstract = {We report on a performance study of a French-Canadian fiddler. The fiddling tradition forms an interesting contrast toclassical violin performance in several ways. Distinguishingfeatures include special elements in the bowing techniqueand the presence of an accompanying foot clogging pattern.These two characteristics are described, visualized and analyzed using video and motion capture recordings as sourcematerial.},
 address = {Oslo, Norway},
 author = {Schoonderwaldt, Erwin and Jensenius, Alexander Refsum},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178155},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {fiddler, violin, French-Canadian, bowing, feet, clogging, motion capture, video, motiongram, kinematics, sonification },
 pages = {256--259},
 title = {Effective and Expressive Movements in a French-Canadian fiddler's Performance},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2011/nime2011_256.pdf},
 year = {2011}
}