The Brain Music Lab pursues research and develops creative practices to promote health and well-being by combining new music technologies with EEG (brainwave data) and other physiological measurement techniques. An example of their work is Vessels, an ongoing performance project led by lab director Grace Leslie, which draws on several years of engineering and music-based meditation practices, employing brain waves as a means of biofeedback training. In her performances, Leslie's brain waves are sonified by means of an algorithm that imprints their spectrum onto a bank of recorded samples of flute and singing. The result is a transforming architecture of sound driven by her physiology.
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Torin Hopkins, Emily Doherty, Netta Ofer, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Peter Gyory, Chad Tobin, Leanne Hirschfield, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “Stringesthesia: Dynamically Shifting Musical Agency Between Audience and Performer Based on Trust in an Interactive and Improvised Performance”. In: Proceedings of Audio Mostly 2023. (August 30 - September 1, 2023).
Torin Hopkins, Alvin Jude, Greg Phillips, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “Virtual AI Jam: AI-Driven Virtual Musicians for Human-in-the-Loop Musical Improvisation“. In: Proceedings of AIMC 2023. (August 29, 2023).
Torin Hopkins, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “Rhythmic Conversations”. In: Proceedings of AIMC 2023. (August 29, 2023).
Sophia K. Mehdizadeh and Grace Leslie. 2023. "The physiology of musical preference: A secondary analysis of the Study Forrest dataset". In: Music Perception, 40(5). (June 1, 2023).
Suibi Che–Chuan Weng, Torin Hopkins, Rishi Vanukuru, Chad Tobin, Amy Banic, Daniel Leithinger, and Ellen Yi–Luen Do. 2023. “How Field of View Affects Awareness of an Avatar During a Musical Task in Augmented Reality”. In: 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (Shanghai, China, March 25-29, 2023).
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