A Real Time Music Synthesis Environment Driven with Biological Signals

Author

Arslan, Burak ; Brouse, Andrew ; Castet, Julien ; Léhembre, Remy ; Simon, Cédric ; Filatriau, Jean Julien ; Noirhomme, Quentin

Author_Institution

TCTS Lab. Polytechnique de Mons

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

14-19 May 2006

Abstract

This study proposes to use the analysis of physiological signals (electroencephalogram (EEG), electromyogram (EMG), heart beats etc) to control sound synthesis algorithms in order to build biologically driven musical instruments. A real time music synthesis environment and algorithms are developed to map these signals into sound. Finally, a "bio-orchestra", with two new digital musical instruments controlled by the EEGs and EMGs of two bio-musicians demonstrated this concept with a live concert on stage

Keywords

acoustic signal processing; electroencephalography; electromyography; medical signal processing; musical instruments; EEG; EMG; bio-orchestra; biological signals; digital musical instruments; electroencephalogram; electromyogram; heart beats; musical instruments; physiological signals; real time music synthesis; sound synthesis algorithms; Algorithm design and analysis; Biological control systems; Electroencephalography; Electromyography; Heart beat; Instruments; Multiple signal classification; Music; Signal analysis; Signal synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0469-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1660557

Filename

1660557