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The paper and slides from the Panel Session: The Need of Formats for Streaming and Storing Music-Related Movement and Gesture Data, 2007 International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen provides a good overvie of the following topics —

• Motion Capture Formats
• Movement-related Markup Languages
• Gesture Motion Signal (GMS) format
• Gesture Description Interchange File Format (GDIF)
• Performance Markup Language (PML)
• Sound Description Interchange Format (SDIF)
• Motion capture systems
• MIDI devices
• Commercial controllers
• Custom made instruments and devices
• Synchronisation

The Clarinet Gestural Analysis project, based in the Music Technology Area, Schulich School of Music, McGill University is investigating the correlation between physical and musical gestures.

The research has a specific focus on expressive movements (also called ancillary or non-obvious gestures), movements that do not have a direct link to the generation of sound, but are an integral part of the performance.

The Musical Gestures Project, University of Oslo, Department of Musicology, is a broadly conceived research project on music-related gestures, based on the conviction that there are intimate links between music, understood as sonic art, and gestures, understood as human bodily movement.