
Video Analysis/synthesis and Motion Capture. Sound/music in New Media (computers, internet, mobile phones, etc.). Instrument Design, Construction, Performance and Evaluation. Musical Human-Computer Interaction and Action-Sound Mapping. Sound Programming (Max/MSP, PD, Matlab). Teaching and Tutoring International Master's Programme in Music, Communication & Technology Visiting researcher, TMD, KTH, Stockholm. Visiting researcher, IDMIL, McGill University. Visiting researcher, CNMAT, University of California, Berkeley. (4 year BA) in music and mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway (2 year MA) in musicology, University of Oslo, Norway 2004: M.Sc. (2 years) in art & technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. 2008: PhD in music technology, University of Oslo, Norway. As a member of the EUA Expert Group on Science 2.0/Open Science, he is also involved in modernising how research is conceived and conducted. From 2017 he co-directs RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, an interdisciplinary centre of excellence at the University of Oslo. As chair of the NIME steering committee, he is a leading figure in the international computer music community. He also uses analytical knowledge and tools to create new music with both traditional and very untraditional instruments. His research focuses on why music makes us move, which he explores through empirical studies using different motion sensing technologies. On December 31st, 2019, YouTube user Tundrarich posted a remix of the composition titled "Gwyn's theme but every time there is a Plin Plin Plon it becomes sadder." The video accumulated over 490,000 views in three months.Short bio: Alexander Refsum Jensenius is a music researcher and research musician. An August 23rd meme posted by Facebook user Naveen Yedavally received over 760 reactions (shown below, right). For example, an August 21st, 2019, meme posted by Facebook user Luke Gallagher received over 360 reactions (shown below, left). In the following days, the memes referencing the piano passage as "Plin Plin Plon" and describing the "Gwyn, Lord of Cinder" as a very sad, tearjerking composition gained significant popularity in Dark Souls fan communities such as Dark Souls Sifposting and Dark Souls Seathposting on Facebook and /r/shittydarksouls on Reddit. On the same day, Facebook group "Memes feos de darksouls con sabor a frasco estus." posted a version of the meme translated to Spanish that received over 450 reactions and 250 shares. On August 19th, Redditor SuperMekaKaiju reposted the image to /r/shittydarksouls subreddit, where it received over 1,500 upvotes in six months. In the following days, the image received viral spread in Dark Souls fan communities online. The meme received over 1,100 reactions and 230 shares in seven months (shown below). On August 18th, 2019, Facebook user Hal Morgan posted a Crying Cat meme which referred to the three-note passage as "Plin Plin Plon" to Dark Souls Seathposting Facebook group.
The song did not see a significant presence in memes until August 2019. In the composition, a three-note piano passage repeats multiple times. The game soundtrack, composed by Motoi Sakuraba, features a composition "Gwyn, Lord of Cinder," named after the final boss of the game. On September 22nd, 2011, action role-playing video game Dark Souls, developed by FromSoftware, was released. The composition and the passage became a popular reference among the fans of the series, with the track often presented as one of the saddest musical compositions ever created.
Plin Plin Plon is an onomatopoeic nickname given to a three-note passage from the musical composition "Gwyn, Lord of Cinder" from the soundtrack of the 2011 video game Dark Souls. Plin plin plon, piano, motoi sakuraba, gwyn's theme, gwyn lord of cinder, soundtrack, three notes About