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Passive BCI in contemporary performance (last edited: 2020)

Tim Sayer
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300 word supporting statement The aim of this research is to explore, in artistic practice, the concept of ‘cognitive ambience’, which I have developed in the book chapter “Using EEG to explore cognitive-cultural networks and eco-systemic performance environments for improvisation”. I have done this in the creation of a piece entitled ‘Mondrisonic’ which opened the 4th International Performance Studies Network Conference at Bath Spa University in 2016. This exposition provides the following contextual information: • Book chapter • 2 Documentary films • Proof of performance • Code • Score The claim for new knowledge in this submission is not for the approach to coding the system, which uses Processing for the visuals and Supercollider for the audio, but for the fact that the data used to feed into the closed loop performance system, results from harvesting the passive EEG signal from one of the performance participants. This participant is directing their attention towards something other than actively being a performer in the piece but whose attentiveness to the piece is nevertheless affecting how the piece develops, an approach that I believe to be new and novel in creative work utilising BCI. There are currently two proposals for further performances pending, one at the ICMC2020 and the other at the IASPM UK and Ireland Biennial Conference.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsEEG, brain computer interface, passive brain activity, improvisation, audio-visual
date28/01/2020
last modified27/03/2020
statusin progress
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affiliationLondon College of Music, University of West London
copyrightTim Sayer
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languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/785230/785231


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