Situated interactive music system: Connecting mind and body through musical interaction

Abstract

It is now widely acknowledged that music can deeply affect humans' emotional, cerebral and physiological states (20). Yet, the relationship between music features, emotional and physiological responses is still not clear. In this context, we introduce SiMS, a Situated Interactive Music System designed for the artistic and scientific exploration of the relationships between brain activity, physiology, emotion and musical features. SiMS provides the user with tools for the acquisition and processing of electroencephalogram (EEG) and heart-rate (HR) signal. We propose an original perceptually-grounded synthesis model, and the possibility to generate interesting musical structures in real-time as well as a mapping scheme based on psychophysiological evidence for the generation of affective music based on physiology input. © July 2009- All copyright remains with the individual authors.