Emovere: Designing Sound Interactions for Biosignals and Dancers

Javier Jaimovich

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper presents the work developed for Emovere: an interactive real-time interdisciplinary performance that measures physiological signals from dancers to drive a piece that explores and reflects around the biology of emotion. This document focuses on the design of a series of interaction modes and materials that were developed for this performance, and are believed to be a contribution for the creation of artistic projects that work with dancers and physiological signals. The paper introduces the motivation and theoretical framework behind this project, to then deliver a detailed description and analysis of four different interaction modes built to drive this performance using electromyography and electrocardiography. Readers will find a discussion of the results obtained with these designs, as well as comments on future work.

Citation

Javier Jaimovich. 2016. Emovere: Designing Sound Interactions for Biosignals and Dancers. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176036

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Jaimovich2016,
 abstract = {This paper presents the work developed for Emovere: an interactive real-time interdisciplinary performance that measures physiological signals from dancers to drive a piece that explores and reflects around the biology of emotion. This document focuses on the design of a series of interaction modes and materials that were developed for this performance, and are believed to be a contribution for the creation of artistic projects that work with dancers and physiological signals. The paper introduces the motivation and theoretical framework behind this project, to then deliver a detailed description and analysis of four different interaction modes built to drive this performance using electromyography and electrocardiography. Readers will find a discussion of the results obtained with these designs, as well as comments on future work.},
 address = {Brisbane, Australia},
 author = {Javier Jaimovich},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176036},
 isbn = {978-1-925455-13-7},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 pages = {316--320},
 publisher = {Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University},
 title = {Emovere: Designing Sound Interactions for Biosignals and Dancers},
 track = {Papers},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2016/nime2016_paper0062.pdf},
 year = {2016}
}