The SoundGlove II: Using sEMG Data for Intuitive Audio and Video Affecting in Real Time

By thisisuser on October 23, 2005

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“The SoundGove II is a real time system for generating and affecting music and visuals through surface electromyograph (sEMG) muscular electrical activity sensing. The system is at public display September 30th – December 18th at the Museum of Contempoary Art in Roskilde, Denmark. The system’s aim, aesthetics and functionality is outlined, it is put into perspective of related work, and user response and possibilities for further development and other usages is discussed.”

In Proceedings of The Third Annual Conference in Computer Game Design and Technology. November 8-9 2005, Liverpool, UK.

List of Writings

Sonification of Emotion State In Family-Run Businesses
Paper (2008)
Visualizing Structures of Speech Expressiveness
Paper (2008)
Gesture and Emotion in Interactive Music: Artistic and Technologial Challenges
PhD dissertation (2006)
Applying a Performer’s Physical Gestures to Sound Synthesis in Real-Time
Paper (2006)
Implicit Relevance Feedback in Interactive Music: Issues, Challenges, and Case Studies
Paper (2006)
Sound Synthesis Affected by Physical Gestures in Real-Time
Poster (2006)
Mood Mapping Technologies within Hybrid Audio Design
Poster (2006)
Providing Rhythm Patterns in Sound Synthesis
Paper (2006)
Mood Mapping Technologies within Hybrid Design
Presentation (2006)
Unifying Performer and Accompaniment
Paper (2005)
The SoundGlove II: Using sEMG Data for Intuitive Audio and Video Affecting in Real Time
Paper (2005)
Open and Closed Form in Interactive Music
Paper (2005)

My main areas of research is advanced music composition, real-time music technology and music cognition. I am particularly interested in the relationship between core emotions and score notation and performance features, as well as novel methods for generative real-time performance that are founded in non-expert music cognition.

Some years ago I was involved in the Nordic SUM project – Systematic Understanding of Music – and a large part of the project concerned the implementation into computer code of concepts from probabilistic melody generation for real-time performance.

This work has since found its way into several commercial releases and is today a constant presence in my live laptop performances, either in duo or small group formats with a variety of instrumentalists or as a solo performer.