Using physiological signals for sound creation

Jehan-Julien Filatriau (1) , Remy Léhembre (2) , Quentin Noirhomme (2) , Cédric Simon (2) , Burak Arslan (3) , Andrew Brouse (4) , Julien Castet (5)

1 LMA - Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique [Marseille]
2 TELE - Laboratoire de Télécommunications et Télédétection [Louvain]
3 TCTS Lab - Théorie des Circuits et Traitement du Signal
4 CMR - Computer Music Research
5 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique

Recent advances in new technologies offer a large range of innovative instruments to design and process sounds. Willing to explore new ways for music creation, specialists from the fields of brain-computer interfaces and sound synthesis worked together during the eNTERFACE05 workshop (Mons, Belgium). The aim of their work was to design an architecture of real-time sound synthesis driven by physiological signals. The following description links natural human signals to sound synthesis algorithms, thus offering rarely used pathways for music exploration. This architecture was tested during a ”bio-concert” given at the end of the workshop where two musicians were using their EEG and EMG to perform a musical creation.

Mots clés: Biological Signals Interface; EEG; sound synthesis

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Son [cs.SD]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Jehan-Julien Filatriau, Remy Léhembre, Quentin Noirhomme, Cédric Simon, Burak Arslan, et al.. Using physiological signals for sound creation. 11th International Conference Speech and Computer, Jun 2006, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. ⟨hal-00524806⟩