When
Monday Demo session
Abstract
EAR Stretch is a project about enhancing aesthetic reception of Contemporary Classical Music through embodied interactions. The conductor interface enables users of any background to interactively control the temporal expression of Contemporary Classical Music in real time through intuitive conducting-tapping gestures. Each gesture plays the next beat of music at a tempo estimated by the tap rate and by the press duration while the gesture onset and the music remain synchronized. The user’s gesture thus controls the music like a conductor. This interaction integrates action and perception and is thought to drive neural entrainment and expectation, thereby impacting the perception and possibly the reception of the music. A video demonstrates the conductor system implemented with synchronous data acquisition from the heart and brain using mobile sensors. Altogether, the system may be used to study the physiological impact of embodied interactions with music.
Bio
Emily Graber is a researcher, musician, and current Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Fellow at the Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique (IRCAM) in Paris. Her project, EAR Stretch, focuses on augmenting enjoyment of contemporary classical music through embodiment and interaction. Emily previously studied violin performance and physics at the University of Michigan, then received her PhD at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Emily was also a postdoctoral researcher at the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto.