KOTO: brain-to-art
Excertpt
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Koto is a brain-to-art project where the public was invited to use the Muse EEG device to generate visual and music with their brainwaves. Peaceful Japanese music was generated during relaxed mood and a stressful electronic music during tensed mood. On top of the neurofeedback system, user was able to modify some parameters of the music and visual by moving his body smoothly.
Location: Montreal
Collaborators: Naoto Hiéda, Eraylik
Year: 2015
Tags: BCI
AUMI
About the project
Location: Montreal
Year: since 2010
Collaborators: IICSI,
AUMI Consortium, McGill University
Categories: Health, Science
AUMI (Adaptive Use Musical Instrument) is a laptop and app musical interface designed to allow individuals with limited motor control to make music. Using motion tracking, and a custom interface, now barriers of ability need not prevent individuals from entering into collective musiking. It is a free download, and is continuously refined in the light of suggestions from the end users.
SPIEL
Spiel | an in-situ performance for prepared mouth
While absorbed in conversation you notice a stranger approaching. With a curious instrument affixed to their face the visitor leans in, and listens. The mouth opens, patterns of rhythm and sound emanate from within: voices recognizable as your own. Spun out of focus, words reveal their ingrained subtleties as the collector of conversation captures the sentence but not the sentiment. Vocal exchanges are recalled and reflected. Voices are transformed by physical formant inflections, while acoustic hallucinations seem to reference what might have been said. An étude on hearing lips and seeing voices, the performer’s mechanically augmented vocal tract reshapes and filters conversational spectra into new modes of mis -communication. ..
Creators: Peter van Haaften, Michael Montanaro
Location: Montreal
Year: 2018
Tags: AV installation, Digital music instrument