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MoodMixer: EEG-based Collaborative Sonification


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Grace Leslie, Tim Mullen
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#EEG #BCMI #collaboration #sonification #visualization
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2011
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MoodMixer is an interactive installation in which participants collaboratively navigate a two-dimensional music space by manipulating their cognitive state and conveying this state via wearable Electroencephalography (EEG) technology. The participants can choose to actively manipulate or passively convey their cognitive state depending on their desired approach and experience level. A four-channel electronic music mixture continuously conveys the participants’ expressed cognitive states while a colored visualization of their locations on a two-dimensional projection of cognitive state attributes aids their navigation through the space. MoodMixer is a collaborative experience that incorporates aspects of both passive and active EEG sonification and performance art. We discuss the technical design of the installation and place its collaborative sonification aesthetic design within the context of existing EEG-based music and art.

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Auditory-Induced Emotion: A Neglected Channel for Communication in Human- Computer Interaction



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Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Daniel Västfjäll.
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#auditoryinducedemotion #soundquality #selfrepresentationsounds #embodiment #emotionalintelligence
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2008
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Interpreting and responding to affective states of a user is crucial for future intelligent systems. Until recently, the role of sound in affective responses has been frequently ignored. This article provides a brief overview of the research targeting affective reactions to everyday, ecological sounds. This research shows that the subjective interpretation and meaning that listeners attribute to sound, the spatial dimension, or the interactions with other sensory modalities, are as important as the physical properties of sound in evoking an affective response. Situation appraisal and individual differences are also discussed as factors influencing the emotional reactions to auditory stimuli. A study with heartbeat sounds exemplifies some of the introduced ideas and research methodologies, and shows the potential of sound in inducing emotional states.

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Music, empathy and cultural understanding


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Eric Clarkea, Tia DeNora, Jonna Vuoskoski
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#Music #Empathy #Culturalunderstanding #Resonance #Intersubjectivity #Alterity
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2015
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In the age of the Internet and with the dramatic proliferation of mobile listening technologies, music has unprecedented global distribution and embeddedness in people's lives. It is a source of intense experiences of both the most intimate and solitary, and public and collective, kinds – from an individual with their smartphone and headphones, to large-scale live events and global simulcasts; and it increasingly brings together a huge range of cultures and histories, through developments in world music, sampling, the re-issue of historical recordings, and the explosion of informal and home music-making that circulates via YouTube. For many people, involvement with music can be among the most powerful and potentially transforming experiences in their lives. At the same time, there has been increasing interest in music's communicative and affective capacities, and its potential to act as an agent of social bonding and affiliation. This review critically discusses a considerable body of research and scholarship, across disciplines ranging from the neuroscience and psychology of music to cultural musicology and the sociology and anthropology of music, that provides evidence for music's capacity to promote empathy and social/cultural understanding through powerful affective, cognitive and social factors; and explores ways in which to connect and make sense of this disparate evidence (and counter-evidence). It reports the outcome of an empirical study that tests one aspect of those claims, demonstrating that ‘passive’ listening to the music of an unfamiliar culture can significantly change the cultural attitudes of listeners with high dispositional empathy; presents a model that brings together the primary components of the music and empathy research into a single framework; and considers both some of the applications, and some of the shortcomings and problems, of understanding music from the perspective of empathy.


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Allen Perdue Britton and "The Study of Music: An Academic Discipline"


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George N. Heller
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#music #education #accademicmusicaleducation
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2001
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The study of music as an academic discipline