New research papers available

Published on April 26, 2013 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Two new research papers I’ve been working on are now available to view, while another few are in various stages of publication / completion and will too be linked from here once they’re publicly available. The new papers are:

Using Music as a Signal for Biofeedback

Ilias Bergstrom, Sofia Seinfeld, Jorge Arroyo-Palacios, Mel Slater, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives, International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2013

and:

Drumming in Immersive Virtual Reality: The Body Shapes the Way We Play

Konstantina Kilteni, Ilias Bergstrom, Mel Slater, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2013

For abstracts and links, please refer to my publications page.

PhD thesis now available online

Published on September 4, 2011 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

UCL has now posted my PhD thesis document for online download here.

The description of my PhD work is more up-to-date in this document than in the academic papers that preceded it, so if you have come here after having read my articles, you will most likely find my thesis to also be of interest!

Barcelona

Published on August 31, 2010 in Uncategorized. 2 Comments

Just a quick note to inform of my geographical relocation to Barcelona!

Invited seminar at Queen Mary

Published on March 7, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

I was invited to present a seminar on my PhD research at Queen Mary University’s Centre for Digital Music, on Monday the 8th of March, at 16:15. Entrance is free and accessible to all. For more information, and information on how to get there, please refer to this link.

A presentation of a novel, entirely custom developed system, for facilitating the live performance of Visual Music / abstract animation. The hypothesis is that by using musical instruments as the primary user interface for the performance, we may usefully re-map the embodied/enactive knowledge that musicians have of their instruments. Musicians may then perform live visual music, taking advantage of the expressivity their instruments afford them. For this work, a new control data mapping strategy had to be developed, of ‘Mutable Mapping’, which entails manually manipulating the mapping during a performance, gradually altering and re-routing digital control data.

Visual music survey

Published on December 9, 2009 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

In order to find out which one of two different visual music technologies audiences prefer, I have created an online survey for comparing them. Please take part by filling it out, and when I have enough responses I will post the results here!

The survey is reached using the link below, and should not take you more than 10-15 minutes to complete:

www.surveygizmo.com/s/204226/visual-music-1

I have not disclosed too many details now, because that may influence the way you answer. Rest assured I will post all the details when the survey is closed.

Thanks!

EDIT: I have now compiled the results and written up a research paper describing them, which has been submitted for review towards publication in a journal. As soon as the results have been published, I’ll also post a summary here!

Mother 0.6.1 minor update released

Published on October 29, 2009 in Uncategorized. 17 Comments

0.6.1 is only a minor update, adding no new functionality. The only change was to re-compile the Foetus library so that it is also compatible with Java 1.5, as on OSX there were reports that also recent versions of Processing was running on JVM 1.5. If Mother 0.6 is running fine for you, there is no need to get 0.6.1.

Mother 0.6 released for Windows and OSX

Published on October 22, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Thanks to the continuing involvement of Krzysztof Golinski on the project, developing of Mother has now sped up a bit, hence the increased release frequency!

New features in Mother 0.6:

  • Small mistakes fixed from previous 0.5 release: Waltz synth example was not working, and I failed to mention in the documentation that you also need the Shapetween library to develop new synths.
  • More comprehensive secondary screen support introduced.
  • pre(), draw(), post() and dispose() methods are now called properly in synth libraries.
  • It is no longer necessary to put an Init() method in sketches intended as Synths for Mother (Finally!).

As always, you can download the latest version from the Google code repository!

TED talk features software I’ve written

Published on October 9, 2009 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

My PhD supervisor Beau Lotto recently did a TED talk in Oxford, which features two  applications I have written.

First is a live video to sound perceptual substitution program, followed by an application that uses an image as a score for a virtual 32-piece classical orchestra. Both are featured from 12:20 onwards, but of course the whole talk is a very interesting watch!

Mother 0.5 released, now available both for OSX and Windows!

Published on October 7, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Mother Icon

New features in Mother 0.5:

  • Updated to use Processing 1.0.7
  • Performance is much improved
  • Stability is also greatly improved (a hard to debug multi-threading problem was fixed)
  • OSX-port implemented

The OSX port was possible thanks to the contributions of Krzysztof Golinski and Splatgirl, many thanks to both of them! Krzysztof also designed the great graphic above for the Mother project.

So go ahead and download the latest version from the Google code repository!

Seeing Sound Symposium 2009, Bath Spa University

Published on September 23, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

I have just returned from the Seeing Sound Symposium at Bath Spa University, where I presented my live visual music system.

I was amazed at how many people and institutions are working with visual music that I was unaware of!

The symposium was of great interest, and I really hope it will be the start of a yearly recurrent event.

Maura McDonnell has created a very thorough overview of the event on her visual music blog, it is well worth heading over there and following the very thorough list of links she compiled related to the symposiums presentations.