Disembodied and Collaborative Musical Interaction in the Multimodal Brain Orchestra

Sylvain Le Groux, Jonatas Manzolli, Paul F. Verschure, Marti Sanchez, Andre Luvizotto, Anna Mura, Aleksander Valjamae, Christoph Guger, Robert Prueckl, and Ulysses Bernardet

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Most new digital musical interfaces have evolved upon theintuitive idea that there is a causality between sonic outputand physical actions. Nevertheless, the advent of braincomputer interfaces (BCI) now allows us to directly accesssubjective mental states and express these in the physicalworld without bodily actions. In the context of an interactive and collaborative live performance, we propose to exploit novel brain-computer technologies to achieve unmediated brain control over music generation and expression.We introduce a general framework for the generation, synchronization and modulation of musical material from brainsignal and describe its use in the realization of Xmotion, amultimodal performance for a "brain quartet".

Citation:

Sylvain Le Groux, Jonatas Manzolli, Paul F. Verschure, Marti Sanchez, Andre Luvizotto, Anna Mura, Aleksander Valjamae, Christoph Guger, Robert Prueckl, and Ulysses Bernardet. 2010. Disembodied and Collaborative Musical Interaction in the Multimodal Brain Orchestra. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177831

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{LeGroux2010,
 abstract = {Most new digital musical interfaces have evolved upon theintuitive idea that there is a causality between sonic outputand physical actions. Nevertheless, the advent of braincomputer interfaces (BCI) now allows us to directly accesssubjective mental states and express these in the physicalworld without bodily actions. In the context of an interactive and collaborative live performance, we propose to exploit novel brain-computer technologies to achieve unmediated brain control over music generation and expression.We introduce a general framework for the generation, synchronization and modulation of musical material from brainsignal and describe its use in the realization of Xmotion, amultimodal performance for a "brain quartet".},
 address = {Sydney, Australia},
 author = {Le Groux, Sylvain and Manzolli, Jonatas and Verschure, Paul F. and Marti Sanchez and Andre Luvizotto and Anna Mura and Aleksander Valjamae and Christoph Guger and Robert Prueckl and Ulysses Bernardet},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177831},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Brain-computer Interface, Biosignals, Interactive Music System, Collaborative Musical Performance},
 pages = {309--314},
 title = {Disembodied and Collaborative Musical Interaction in the Multimodal Brain Orchestra},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2010/nime2010_309.pdf},
 year = {2010}
}