Music for Sleeping & Waking Minds

Gascia Ouzounian, R. Benjamin Knapp, Eric Lyon, and Luke DuBois

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2012
• Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Keywords: EEG, sleep, dream, biosignals, bio art, consciousness, BCI
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1180559 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

Music for Sleeping & Waking Minds (2011-2012) is a new, overnight work in which four performers fall asleep while wearing custom designed EEG sensors which monitor their brainwave activity. The data gathered from the EEG sensors is applied in real time to different audio and image signal processing functions, resulting in continuously evolving multi-channel sound environment and visual projection. This material serves as an audiovisual description of the individual and collective neurophysiological state of the ensemble. Audiences are invited to experience the work in different states of attention: while alert and asleep, resting and awakening.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Ouzounian2012,
 abstract = {Music for Sleeping & Waking Minds (2011-2012) is a new, overnight work in which four performers fall asleep while wearing custom designed EEG sensors which monitor their brainwave activity. The data gathered from the EEG sensors is applied in real time to different audio and image signal processing functions, resulting in continuously evolving multi-channel sound environment and visual projection. This material serves as an audiovisual description of the individual and collective neurophysiological state of the ensemble. Audiences are invited to experience the work in different states of attention: while alert and asleep, resting and awakening.},
 address = {Ann Arbor, Michigan},
 author = {Gascia Ouzounian and R. Benjamin Knapp and Eric Lyon and Luke DuBois},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1180559},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {EEG, sleep, dream, biosignals, bio art, consciousness, BCI},
 publisher = {University of Michigan},
 title = {Music for Sleeping \& Waking Minds},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2012/nime2012_229.pdf},
 year = {2012}
}