Tejaswinee Kelkar is a researcher in music and motion, and a singer. She previously worked as a data analyst at Universal Music Norway and at the RITMO center of excellence at University of Oslo. Her research interests are melodic cognition, motion-capture and musical-cultural analysis. Her research focus is on how aspects of melodic perception are illustrated through multimodality, and linguistic prosody.
Research Interests:
1. Musical embodiment: how is music more than audition, and how can evidence of this be found in bodily engagement with music. Understanding why certain, but not other forms of embodied responses afforded to certain musical frameworks, and what does that say about culturally shared sense-making and aesthetic responses for music. Shedding light on other phenomena such as language and musical pleasure.
2. Technology: using current knowledge of machine learning, music information retrieval, and statistical analysis to illuminate patterns of musical interaction. Technology provides the backbone for the empirical research conducted, and as the primary methodological tool.
My vision is to create musical and technological experiences that go to the root of musical experiences and encourage curiosity. To this end, I like to incorporate aspects of spatialization and interaction that keeps at its center, the idea of ‘play’, and humor, in musical creation.
Popular Articles
- Jazznytt Vår 2024 - Forskeren og sangeren Tejaswinee Kelkar diskuterer improvisasjonens rolle i nord-indisk klassisk musikk
- Music is more than sound waves: What you see and how you move, affects what you hear
- Nattjazz Anmeldelse - Ballade
- NTT: Noen forsker på musikk helt på ekte
- Anmeldelse i Ballade. VoxLab: Flerdimensjonell stemmefest – del 2
Podcasts on Musical Inheritance
Leadership and Management
- IMV Vernombud 2024-2026
- ADC Mentor for Audio Developers 2024
- WiMIR Mentor for women in music information retrieval 2020
- HF Styret Vararepresentant 2018-2019
- Publicity Chair, International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference 2019 Delft, Netherlands
Public Engagement
- Invited Speaker at Oslo AI Creative Minds: AI’s Role in Art, Music, and Creativity, Microsoft Norge 2024
- dScience Lunch Seminar: Studying Melodic Embodiment: Computational Approaches
- Keynote Speaker at Cultural Literacy Everywhere, Oslo 2023
Academic interests
Motion Capture
Musical Embodiment
Melodic Contour
Melodic Perception
Multimodal Metaphor
Hindustani Classical Music
Courses
- EXFAC03-MUS - Examens Facultatum
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MCT4001 - Sound and Music Programming
- MCT 4053 / HFIMV9053 - Motion Capture
- MCT 4012 - Research Methods, Tools, and Issues in MCT
- MCT 4043 - Music Related Motion Capture
Lectures
Background
As a musician, her focus is on retelling traditional music from her experiences of migration, and mediated by machine. She is interested in understanding the use of the voice as a disembodied, and distorted object.
She trained in hindustani classical singing from a young age, and later, western classical composition. In addition to being a vocalist, she plays the harmonium and other instruments. In her free time, she loves to swim and sketch.
News and Upcoming Events, Performances and Talks
- 29. February: dScience Lunch Seminar "Studying Melodic Embodiment: Computational Approaches"
https://www.uio.no/dscience/english/news-and-events/events/24-ls-feb29.html - 5. April: Playing with Marianna Sangitas Gjestehus
Tickets: https://www.riksscenen.no/marianna-sangitas-gjestehus.6635987-515567.html - 13. April: Raga-Bad Tøyen Biblioteket
- 4. May: Nyege Nyege Remix - Melahuset Oslo
- 30. May: Nattjazz Bergen
https://www.nattjazz.no/mirathuchelvam-vnje - 8. June: Raga-Bad Tøyen Biblioteket m/ Sanskriti Srestha
- 12 August: OsloJazz m/ Mira Thiruchelvam & Vestnorsk Jazzensemble