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听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.听"." In:听AM '24: Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures.听(Milan, Italy, September 18, 2024).
Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,听Torin Hopkins, Shih-Yu Ma,听Chad Tobin,听Amy Banic,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听2023.听"." In:听IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct).听(Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, 2023).
Torin Hopkins,听Rishi Vanukuru,听Suibi Che Chuan Weng,听Chad Tobin,听Amy Banic,听Mark D Gross,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听2023.听"." In:听IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct).听(Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, 2023).
Torin Hopkins, Emily Doherty,听Netta Ofer,听Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,听Peter Gyory,听Chad Tobin, Leanne Hirschfield, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听Proceedings of听Audio Mostly 2023. (August 30 - September 1, 2023).
Torin Hopkins, Alvin Jude, Greg Phillips, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听Proceedings of听AIMC 2023. (August 29, 2023).
Torin Hopkins,听Suibi听Che-Chuan Weng, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听Proceedings of听AIMC 2023. (August 29, 2023).
Sophia K. Mehdizadeh听and听Grace Leslie. 2023. "". In:听Music Perception, 40(5). (June 1, 2023).
Suibi Che鈥揅huan Weng,听Torin Hopkins,听Rishi Vanukuru,听Chad Tobin,听Amy Banic,听鈥嬧赌�Daniel Leithinger, and听Ellen Yi鈥揕uen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)听(Shanghai, China, March 25-29, 2023).听
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