Enactive Mandala: Audio-visualizing Brain Waves

Tomohiro Tokunaga, and Michael J. Lyons

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2013
• Location: Daejeon, Republic of Korea
• Pages: 118–119
• Keywords: Brain-computer Interfaces, BCI, EEG, Sonification, Visualization, Artificial Expressions, NIME, Visual Music
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178678 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

We are exploring the design and implementation of artificial expressions,kinetic audio-visual representations of real-time physiological data whichreflect emotional and cognitive state. In this work we demonstrate a prototype,the Enactive Mandala, which maps real-time EEG signals to modulate ambientmusic and animated visual music. The design draws inspiration from the visualmusic of the Whitney brothers as well as traditional meditative practices.Transparent real-time audio-visual feedback ofbrainwave qualities supports intuitive insight into the connection betweenthoughts and physiological states. Our method is constructive: by linkingphysiology with an dynamic a/v display, and embedding the human-machine systemin the social contexts that arise in real-time play, we hope to seed new, andas yet unknown forms, of non-verbal communication, or ``artificialexpressions''.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Tokunaga2013,
 abstract = {We are exploring the design and implementation of artificial expressions,kinetic audio-visual representations of real-time physiological data whichreflect emotional and cognitive state. In this work we demonstrate a prototype,the Enactive Mandala, which maps real-time EEG signals to modulate ambientmusic and animated visual music. The design draws inspiration from the visualmusic of the Whitney brothers as well as traditional meditative practices.Transparent real-time audio-visual feedback ofbrainwave qualities supports intuitive insight into the connection betweenthoughts and physiological states. Our method is constructive: by linkingphysiology with an dynamic a/v display, and embedding the human-machine systemin the social contexts that arise in real-time play, we hope to seed new, andas yet unknown forms, of non-verbal communication, or ``artificialexpressions''.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Tomohiro Tokunaga and Michael J. Lyons},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178678},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Brain-computer Interfaces, BCI, EEG, Sonification, Visualization, Artificial Expressions, NIME, Visual Music},
 month = {May},
 pages = {118--119},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {Enactive Mandala: Audio-visualizing Brain Waves},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_16.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}