Brain Music Lab
The Brain Music Lab pursues research and develops creative practices to promote health and well-being by combining new music technologies with EEG (brainwave data) and other physiological measurement techniques. An example of their work is Vessels, an ongoing performance project led by lab director Grace Leslie, which draws on several years of engineering and music-based meditation practices, employing brain waves as a means of biofeedback training. In her performances, Leslie's brain waves are sonified by means of an algorithm that imprints their spectrum onto a bank of recorded samples of flute and singing. The result is a transforming architecture of sound driven by her physiology.
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Daniel Ethridge, Luis X. de Pablo, Grace Leslie. 2024. "Low-Level Audio Feature Correlates to Physiological Arousal: A Secondary Analysis of the DEAP Dataset." In: AM '24: Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures. (Milan, Italy, September 18, 2024).
Torin Hopkins, Emily Doherty, Netta Ofer, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Peter Gyory, Chad Tobin, Leanne Hirschfield, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “Stringesthesia: Dynamically Shifting Musical Agency Between Audience and Performer Based on Trust in an Interactive and Improvised Performance”. In: Proceedings of Audio Mostly 2023. (August 30 - September 1, 2023).
Ruojia Sun, Althea Vail Wallop, Grace Leslie, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. “SoniSpace: Expressive Movement Interaction to Encourage Taking Up Space with the Body” 2023. In: Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23 Companion). (July 12, 2023).
Yiren Ren, Sophia K. Mehdizadeh, Grace Leslie, and Thackery I. Brown. 2024. "Affective Music During Episodic Memory Recollection Modulates Subsequent False Emotional Memory Traces: An fMRI Study". In: Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 24(5). (July 2, 2024)
Sophia K. Mehdizadeh and Grace Leslie. 2023. "The physiology of musical preference: A secondary analysis of the Study Forrest dataset". In: Music Perception, 40(5). (June 1, 2023).