Embodied musical interaction
Luís Aly from the University of Porto presents Embodied Musical Interaction
Embodied interaction means sensing the world through our bodily presence and represents a promising avenue of research in human-computer interaction with profound implications in media arts. Biosignals are a robust and accurate means of designing embodied interactions with the digital realm. This session will provide essential knowledge on developing interactive systems relying on biosignals, including development boards, sensors and signal processing techniques, following a focus on appropriating biosignals as control metaphors for designing interactive musical systems. We will deliver a brief history of the subject and discuss various creations' interaction methods and the creative affordances of biosignal-driven interactive musical systems. Finally, we will introduce techniques in MaxMSP for rapid integration of sensors, machine learning and interactive audio to inspire the participants to create their embodied musical interactions.