Embedded iconography: a case study on methods for recovering the musical context in capoeira images

This article explores an interdisciplinary approach that integrates historiography, musicology, iconography and motion computing to investigate the interactions between music, body and visual representation. Introduces the concept of “embodied iconography”, which seeks to interpret historical images not only as visual documents, but as traces of the bodily and musical dynamics of the contexts in which they were created. […]

How to disturb a musician's mind? Corpuslab teachers' article addresses the relationship between musicians and instruments.

Professors Luiz Naveda and Marília Nunes have just published an article in the Journal of New Music Research, one of the leading journals in the field of musicology: “Breaking down the musician’s minds: How small changes in the musical instrument can impair your musical performance.” (breaking musicians' minds: how small changes in the musical instrument can […]

Habemos mocap also

One of the nicest things in the life of a researcher is when he manages the basic conditions to perform your search. Prof. Luiz Naveda has developed many studies with motion capture systems from 2008. Up until 2018, he had failed to local financing to acquire a system. Behold, he comes and everything is […]