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World premiere of brain orchestra
24 April 2009
as seen on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8016869.stm
The Multimodal Brain Orchestra performed its world premiere on
Thursday.
Led by an "emotional conductor" and a traditional one, music and video
change in time with the performers' brain waves and heart rate.
According to the work's producer, the orchestra aims to "see what the
brain can do without the body".
The orchestra's premiere performance closed the Science Beyond Fiction
conference in Prague.
The project is the creation of the Synthetic, Perceptive, Emotive and
Cognitive Systems (SPECS) group at the University Pompeu Fabra in
Barcelona.
"Only recently we have come to appreciate more the tight coupling
between mind, brain and body," Paul Verschure, head of the project,
told the audience.
"But we can wonder what the mind and brain would be capable of if it
would be directly interfaced to the world, bypassing the body."
The piece that the orchestra performed, Xmotion, was composed by
Jonatas Manzolli, giving it an underlying structure.
But it is the performers who control variations of visuals, sounds,
frequencies, and volumes in the overall piece.
read the complete article on
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8016869.stm
24 April 2009
as seen on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8016869.stm
The Multimodal Brain Orchestra performed its world premiere on
Thursday.
Led by an "emotional conductor" and a traditional one, music and video
change in time with the performers' brain waves and heart rate.
According to the work's producer, the orchestra aims to "see what the
brain can do without the body".
The orchestra's premiere performance closed the Science Beyond Fiction
conference in Prague.
The project is the creation of the Synthetic, Perceptive, Emotive and
Cognitive Systems (SPECS) group at the University Pompeu Fabra in
Barcelona.
"Only recently we have come to appreciate more the tight coupling
between mind, brain and body," Paul Verschure, head of the project,
told the audience.
"But we can wonder what the mind and brain would be capable of if it
would be directly interfaced to the world, bypassing the body."
The piece that the orchestra performed, Xmotion, was composed by
Jonatas Manzolli, giving it an underlying structure.
But it is the performers who control variations of visuals, sounds,
frequencies, and volumes in the overall piece.
read the complete article on
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8016869.stm
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