Viva Contemporary! Mobile Music Laboratory

Emily Graber (1) , Charles Picasso (2, 3) , Elaine Chew (4, 5)

1 Repmus - Représentations musicales
2 Anasynth
3 STMS - Sciences et Technologies de la Musique et du Son
4 School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's college London
5 KCL - Department of Engineering

The mobile music laboratory is an installation for interactive music listening and research on embodied cognition, with focus on contemporary classical music (CCM). CCM is often less familiar to listeners than other types of music, but its success is essential for composers pioneering musical and cultural developments. This installation gives listeners of any background a way to actively engage with CCM. It enables users to interactively control the temporal expression of CCM through intuitive conducting-tapping gestures while traces of their cognitive and physiological processes are recorded for subsequent analysis. The mobile music laboratory system is comprised of a real-time controller with MIDI playback and a data acquisition system. As the user controls the music, Lab Streaming Layer synchronously records gesture timing and audio as well as neural and cardiac signals. The installation is designed to engender purposeful music engagement with CCM while simultaneously serving as a mobile laboratory for studying embodied CCM listening experiences, thus enabling ecologically valid music cognition research outside of auditory psychology labs.

Mots clés: embodied cognition; contemporary classical music; interactive art; Interactive art contemporary classical music embodied cognition; Interactive art; embodied cognition

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Emily Graber, Charles Picasso, Elaine Chew. Viva Contemporary! Mobile Music Laboratory. Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, ACM, pp.7248-7249, 2022, 9781450392037. ⟨10.1145/3503161.3549980⟩. ⟨hal-03966854⟩