EyeMusic : Performing Live Music and Multimedia Compositions with Eye Movements

Anthony J. Hornof, Troy Rogers, and Tim Halverson

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2007
• Location: New York City, NY, United States
• Pages: 299–300
• Keywords: H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation] User Interfaces --- input devices and strategies, interaction styles. J.5 [Arts and Humanities] Fine arts, performing arts.
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177121 (Link to paper)
• PDF link

Abstract:

In this project, eye tracking researchers and computer music composers collaborate to create musical compositions that are played with the eyes. A commercial eye tracker (LC Technologies Eyegaze) is connected to a music and multimedia authoring environment (Max/MSP/Jitter). The project addresses issues of both noise and control: How will the performance benefit from the noise inherent in eye trackers and eye movements, and to what extent should the composition encourage the performer to try to control a specific musical outcome? Providing one set of answers to these two questions, the authors create an eye-controlled composition, EyeMusic v1.0, which was selected by juries for live performance at computer music conferences.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Hornof2007,
 abstract = {In this project, eye tracking researchers and computer music composers collaborate to create musical compositions that are played with the eyes. A commercial eye tracker (LC Technologies Eyegaze) is connected to a music and multimedia authoring environment (Max/MSP/Jitter). The project addresses issues of both noise and control: How will the performance benefit from the noise inherent in eye trackers and eye movements, and to what extent should the composition encourage the performer to try to control a specific musical outcome? Providing one set of answers to these two questions, the authors create an eye-controlled composition, EyeMusic v1.0, which was selected by juries for live performance at computer music conferences.},
 address = {New York City, NY, United States},
 author = {Hornof, Anthony J. and Rogers, Troy and Halverson, Tim},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177121},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation] User Interfaces --- input devices and strategies, interaction styles. J.5 [Arts and Humanities] Fine arts, performing arts. },
 pages = {299--300},
 title = {EyeMusic : Performing Live Music and Multimedia Compositions with Eye Movements},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2007/nime2007_299.pdf},
 year = {2007}
}