Simon Høffding

Simon Høffding is a researcher at the University of Oslo, specializing in music cognition and interdisciplinary research methodologies. He served as the principal investigator for the MusicLab Copenhagen project (2021), a landmark collaborative research concert with the Danish String Quartet that combined music performance with scientific data collection.

• Key Contributions: Pioneered 'research concerts' as hybrid art-science events
• Methodologies: Motion capture, heart rate monitoring, audience sensor data
• Open Science: Advocates for FAIR data principles and open research practices

His research focuses on understanding musical experience through multimodal data analysis, examining how performers and audiences interact in live settings. He has developed innovative synchronization protocols using mobile phone sensors and motion tracking to study collective musical engagement.

Notable collaborations include projects with the fourMs Lab (grant #322364) and RITMO Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion (grant #262762). The dataset from MusicLab Copenhagen has been published on Open Science Framework under a CC-BY license.

The research team produced a documentary film, The Sound of Consciousness, to disseminate findings. Technical resources include GitHub repositories for motion alignment scripts and mobile data capture frameworks.